Dennis Rumley


Dennis Rumley is an associate professor at the University of Western Australia. He gained a PhD in political geography at the University of British Columbia in 1975 and taught at the University of Western Australia until 2007, apart from 1991-3, when he was Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo.
He has been an editorial board member of various international journals and has published widely in many areas of political geography and international relations, including electoral geography, local government, federalism, Australia’s regional relations, geopolitics, India-Australia relations and the Indian Ocean Region. He is chairperson of the Indian Ocean Research Group Inc. He is also Chief Editor of the Routledge international journal - Journal of the Indian Ocean Region.

Major publications

"Fisheries Exploitation in the Indian Ocean: Threats and Opportunities", co-edited with Sanjay Chaturvedi and Vijay Sakhuja.