Laura Bunting

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Laura Bunting is currently undertaking an internship with the United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme. Her role will focus primarily on the development of a City Action Plan for Rotorua. Laura also assisted UN GCCP with the compilation of the Cities report and the delivery of the Ethical Cities Urban Thinkers Campus that took place in Melbourne, February 2016.

Formally an undergraduate student of the University of Melbourne, Laura is currently completing a post-graduate degree in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland. Her research concerns legitimisation strategy and public policy in Post-Revolutionary China.

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