Melinda Rankin is Honorary Research Fellow at School of Political Science and International Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. Prior to this, she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Constitutionalism at WZB Berlin and a Lecturer at The University of Sydney. She is the author of The Political Life of Mary Kaldor: Ideas and Action in International Relations (2017).