Matt Francis

Matt Francis is an Australian-based academic with a love of Vanuatu and the Pacific. He has spent the last two decades researching and writing about this part of the world. Matt began his career working for an international aid agency and has undertaken development work across Asia and the Pacific. Matt’s academic research has largely focused on the Pacific, where he has written on sustainability of aid projects, national identity, religion and development action, children with disability, and humanitarian responses. He continues to work as a university professor and still undertakes field-work across the Pacific.
Matt lives in Melbourne with his wife and three children.