Stewart Firth is Professor of Politics and Head of the Department of History/Politics at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.

He was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1944 and educated at Sydney and Oxford universities.

He has been researching and writing about the Pacific Islands for the last 30 years and is the author or co-author of a number of books about the region.

He has published a number of articles on South Pacific regional security.