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Keri Akiba

Chairperson of the Saibai Mura Buway (Torres Strait Islanders) Corporation RNTBC

Afeeya Akhand

Emerging Associate, ANU National Security College

Jorge Aroche

CEO, NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors

Robert Samuel

CEO of Shalom College and Shalom Collective

Dr Wesa Chau

Executive Director, Per Capita

Lydia Khalil

Expert Associate, ANU National Security College

Jessica Tan

Member of Parliament, East Coast Group Representation Constituency (GRC)

Professor Narushige Michishita

Executive Vice President, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo and Distinguished Advisor, ANU National Security College

Professor Sora Park

Director, News & Media Research Centre

Dr Carolyn Bull

Executive Director, RAND Australia

Dr Jennie Barrera

CEO, Wyndham Community and Education Centre

Krissy Barrett APM

Commissioner, Australian Federal Police

David Bolton

Senior Policy Advisor, ANU National Security College

Prof The Hon George Brandis KC

Distinguished Advisor, ANU National Security College

Professor Rebekah Brown FASSA

Interim Vice-Chancellor & President, The Australian National University

Joe Buffone

Managing Director, Strategic Crisis Solutions

The Hon Tony Burke MP

Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Minister for Cyber Security, Minister for the Arts, Leader of the House

Warwick Carter

Director, Perth South West Metropolitan Alliance

Cr Chris Cherry

Mayor of Tweed Shire

Lachlan Colquhoun

Founder, Agantur Advisory

The Hon Pat Conroy MP

Minister for Defence Industry, Minister for Pacific Island Affairs, Australian Labor Party

Victoria Cooper

Emerging Associate, ANU National Security College

Dr Dominique Dalla-Pozza

Senior Lecturer, ANU Law School

Ned David

Thursday Island Representative and Chair, GBK

Dr Richard Denniss

co-Chief Executive Officer, The Australian Institute

Brendan Dowling

Deputy Secretary, Critical Infrastructure and Protective Security, Department of Home Affairs

Charles Edel

Senior Adviser and Australia Chair, Center for Strategic & International Studies

LTCOL Jan Eldeblad

Defence Attaché, Embassy of Sweden

Rachael Falk

Partner, Ashurst Risk Advisory

Caitlin Figuerado

Emerging Associate, NSC

Christopher Flynn

Partner, Gilbert + Tobin

Professor Alan Gamlen

ARC Futures Fellow and Director, ANU Migration Hub

Dr Malcolm Haddon PSM

Associate Director, Community Resilience, Multicultural NSW

Anthea Hancocks

CEO, Scanlon Foundation Research Institute

Hamish Hansford

Head of National Security, Department of Home Affairs

Councillor Dale Harriman

Deputy Mayor, La Trobe City Council

The Hon Andrew Hastie MP

Shadow Minister for Industry and Sovereign Capability

Justin Hayhurst

Deputy Secretary, International & Security Group, PM&C and former Australian Ambassador to Japan

Shannon Holborn

Vice-President, Global and External Relations, Charles Darwin University

Elder Paul Girrawah House

Senior Ngambri-Ngunnawal Custodian

Danielle Ireland-Piper

Associate Professor, ANU National Security College

Rosemary Kariuki-Fyfe

Multicultural Community Liaison Officer, NSW Police

Colonel Jussi Kosonen

Director, National Defence Courses, Finnish Defence Force

Major General (Retd) Duncan Lewis AO, DSC, CSC

Professor in the Practice of National Security, ANU National Security College

The Hon Kate Lundy HonLittd, GAICD

Distinguished Advisor, ANU National Security College

Dr Dominic Meagher

Research Fellow, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy

Professor Rory Medcalf AM FAIIA

Head, ANU National Security College (NSC)

Caroline Millar

Former Australian Ambassador to the European Union, NATO, Belgium and Luxembourg and Distinguished Advisor, ANU National Security College

Paul Myler

Distinguished Advisor, ANU National Security College

Mike Outram APM

Former Commissioner of the Australian Border Force and Distinguished Advisor, ANU National Security College

Jeff Pope AM

Electoral Commissioner, Australian Electoral Commission

Holly Rankin

Artist and Strategist, Executive Director of Sentiment

Professor His Honour Judge James Renwick AM CSC

Honorary Professor, ANU National Security College

Tom Rogers AO

Former Australian Electoral Commissioner and Distinguished Advisor, ANU National Security College

Nicola Rosenblum

Executive Director, Australian Civil–Military Centre

The Hon Janelle Saffin MP

Minister for Small Business, Minister for Recovery, and Minister for the North Coast, NSW Parliament and Member for Lismore

Dr Aruna Sathanapally

CEO and Economic Prosperity and Democracy Program Director

Dr Atul Sharma

Psychiatry Registrar, Sydney Local Health District and Emerging Associate, ANU National Security College

Rebecca Skinner PSM GAICD

Former CEO of Services Australia and Distinguished Advisor, NSC

Allegra Spender MP

Member for Wentworth

Laura Stewart

Senior Advisor, NSC Futures Hub

Pascale Taplin

PhD Candidate, NSC

Mayor Tanya Taylor

Mayor, Willoughby City Council

Peter Tesch

Distinguished Advisor, ANU National Security College

Councillor Dallas Tout

Mayor, Wagga City Council

Ika (Jessica) Trijsburg

Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU

MAJGEN Jason Walk AM

Head National Support, Department of Defence

Damien Walker

Director-General, Department of the Premier and Cabinet

Professor Jennifer Westacott AC

Chancellor, Western Sydney University; former Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia

Dr Jeni Whalan

General Manager, Strategic Policy, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Tim Wilford

Director, Community Consultations, ANU, NSC





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