Anne-Marie Sharon Brady FRSNZ (born 1966) is a New Zealand academic and Professor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury.
[4] Brady is the first female political scientist to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand, Te Apārangi.
[5] Being made a Fellow is an honour that recognises distinction in research, scholarship or the advancement of knowledge at the highest international standards.
[5] The citation read: ...The research of Anne-Marie Brady on Antarctic politics, China's polar interests, and the Chinese Communist Party's domestic and foreign policy, in particular, foreign interference activities, has been a catalyst contributing to policy adjustments by governments from the USA, to New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Canada, and the EU.
[13][14] The citation read: ...Anne-Marie’s ground-breaking research into China's covert foreign influence strategy in New Zealand has had global reach and impact since its first publication in 2017.
[27][28][29] In April 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern responded to claims by an ABC's Four Corners documentary that "Australian intelligence agencies have identified China's spy service as the prime suspect behind the intimidation of University of Canterbury Professor Anne-Marie Brady" with a statement that she had seen "nothing - no evidence - to support the claims that were made in that story".
Brady claimed that the CCP targeted the Chinese diaspora since it feared that they could "nurture and support political change in China" and in order to influence foreign societies.
[37] Brady's Twitter account was temporarily suspended as a result of her tweets that made fun of Xi Jinping and the lack of international positive reaction to the 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.
[38] In 2020, Brady's research paper A Pen in One Hand, Gripping a Gun in the Other[39] was submitted as evidence of CCP influence campaigns to the New Zealand Parliament's justice select committee.
[40] They alleged "...manifest errors of fact and misleading inferences..." and "... unsubstantiated assertions and outright falsehoods constitute a serious breach in accepted standards of scholarship.
[41] In response, numerous international scholars signed a public letter to Cheryl de la Rey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canterbury, criticising the review of Brady's scholarship as being without merit and a threat to academic freedom.
[48] Brady met her husband when at a Beijing university in the mid-1990s; he was a member of the avant-guard Yuanmingyuan artists' colony which was eventually razed to the ground.