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Michael Roderick was born in Queensland and holds a B.App.Sc (Surveying) from the Queensland University of Technology, a post-graduate diploma in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Queensland and a PhD in Remote Sensing from Curtin University of Technology. He has been a researcher at The Australian National University since 1996. His research speciality is water, on topics ranging from plant cells to catchment hydrology to the global water cycle.
Gary Waters retired from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as an Air Commodore in 2002, worked as a senior public servant in Defence for four years, and has worked with Jacobs Australia as Head of Strategy for the past five years.
Between 1985 and 1997, Gary completed his staff college training in the UK, taught at the RAAF Staff College, was a visiting fellow to The Australian National University, ran the Air Power Studies Centre, and served as Director of Capability Planning in the Australian Defence Headquarters.
From 1998 to 2005, Gary served as Head of the Australian Defence Staff (London), as Head of the Theatre Headquarters Project, and finally as Director General Operation Safe Base. As a public servant he was the inaugural Assistant Secretary Knowledge Planning in Defence, and then moved to be Assistant Secretary Information Strategy and Futures within the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
Since 2005 Gary has been Head of Strategy for Jacobs, in which capacity he also consults in the principal areas of strategy, capability development, cyber security, risk management, preparedness and logistics.
He has written thirteen books on doctrine, strategy, cyber security, and military history. His latest two books are ‘Australia and Cyber Warfare’ (with Professor Des Ball and Ian Dudgeon, 2008), and ‘Optimising Australia’s Response to the Cyber Challenge’ (with Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn, 2011).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (graduating with majors in accounting and economics); a CPA; a graduate of the UK’s Royal Air Force Staff College; a graduate of the University of New South Wales, with an MA (Hons) in history; a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors; and a graduate of The Australian National University with a PhD in political science and international relations.
He has been a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Vice President of the United Services Institute, and Inaugural Board Member and Treasurer of the Kokoda Foundation.
John Minns is the Director of the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies and Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at The Australian National University.
Barry Carr is Adjunct Professor at The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) at ANU and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies at La Trobe University. A historian of modern Latin America, he has researched and published widely on the twentieth century development of Mexico and Cuba. His most recent book is (with Jeffrey Webber) The Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire (2013).
Juliet Pietsch is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University.
Paul Malone was born in Ireland and migrated to Australia in the early 1960s. After graduating in Economics from Sydney University he worked for a year as a graduate clerk in the Federal Department of Trade and Industry. Bored with the job, he left to take up a cadetship at the Sydney Morning Herald. On completion of his cadetship he worked as a general reporter and finance journalist. He moved to Melbourne in 1976 to work for The Age and then the Australian Financial Review. He was promoted to the AFR’s Canberra Press Gallery bureau and in 1985 was appointed political correspondent of The Canberra Times, where he worked for five years. In 1990 he joined the Australian Public Service and worked in ministers’ offices. He returned to The Canberra Times in 2004 to report on the public service. He retired from full time work in 2008 but continues to write a weekly column for the Sunday Canberra Times. He has a Master of Management - Industry Policy from the Australian National University. ANU E-Press published Paul’s book Australian Department Heads Under Howard: Career Paths and Practice in 2006 Paul has an on-going interest in Borneo, first travelling in and around the island in 1974, and returning in recent years, writing articles on logging and development issues and the jungle nomads, the Penan. Independent publishing house, The Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD) Petaling Jaya, Malaysia published Paul’s book The Peaceful People The Penan and their Fight for the Forest in 2014. ISBN: 9789670630366 (PB)
Dr Tracey Arklay is the Program Director of the Graduate Certificate in Policy Analysis (GCPA) and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. Tracey's research on parliamentary practice and disaster management has seen her work extensively with key Queensland government agencies. Dr Arklay’s research incorporates her interest in translating practice into research. She has written on state and federal politics, electoral analysis, parliamentary practice, policy capacity, disaster management and political leadership. She has published two books and one internationally cited monograph. One of her recent publications examined policy making in Australian states: Arklay, T (with John Phillimore), (2015) ‘Policy and policy analysis in Australian states’ (eds. Head, B and Crowley, K), Policy Analysis in Australia, Bristol: Policy Press.
Darrell Tryon was educated in New Zealand at the University of Canterbury, and later at The Australian National University. Darrel’s research interests include Austronesian linguistics; pidgins and creoles; language contact and language change; vernacular education; language endangerment and globalisation.
Miranda Forsyth is a Research Fellow in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. In February 2011 she commenced a three year ARC Discovery funded project to investigate the impact of intellectual laws on development in Pacific Island countries. Prior to coming to the ANU, Miranda was a senior lecturer in criminal law at the law school of the University of the South Pacific, based in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The broad focus of Miranda’s research is investigating the possibilities and challenges of the inter-operation of state and non-state justice systems. She also works on the issue of how best to localize or vernacularize the foreign legal norms and procedures, and adopts a socio-legal approach to regulation.
Adam Shoemaker is a former Professor and Dean of Arts at The Australian National University in Canberra. He came to Australia from Canada in the 1980s and has had a succession of public, international and academic positions since that time, including three years spent with the Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities. He has written or edited several books dealing in whole or part with Indigenous cultures and race relations, including Paperbark (1990), Mudrooroo: A Critical Study (1993), A Sea Change: Australian Writing and Photography (1998), David Unaipon’s Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines (2001) and the French-language work Les Aborigènes d’Australie, published by Gallimard in November 2002.