Jacqueline Leckie is a researcher and writer based in Otepoti Dunedin. She is an adjunct research fellow with the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, and conjoint associate professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle in Australia. She is a fellow of the New Zealand India Research Institute, and an affiliated researcher with the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago. . Her research has concerned the Indian diaspora, development, gender, ethnicity, mental health and work within the Asia-Pacific. Her books include Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community (2007), To Labour with the State (1997) and Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji (2020).