New Colombo Plan scholar Nicholas McLean has a dream to forge a career as a dispute resolutions specialist in the Asia Pacific region.
“Even as a boy, I was fascinated by how societies collapse, evolve and function – ultimately this steered me in the direction of law” he says.
“I’ve always viewed law as the mechanism which regulates and upholds a society. Without it, we’d be at the mercy of anarchy. I think my legal studies have made me more aware of how our way of life is maintained, as well as honing my analytical skills”.
“Ideally, I’d like to combine comparative political analysis with legal knowledge of dispute resolution practices to become a government relations specialist in the Asia-Pacific Region”.
Already making a mark in the international arena, Nicholas is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, a former Hansard scholar and more recently a Griffith Asia Future Fellow. This last experience, he says,
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