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About AHSRC
Vision
The Australian Homeland Security Research Centre undertakes
independent, evidence-based analysis of domestic security
issues as well as facilitating a range of security related
professional development events. The Centre's vision is to
be Australia's leading independent source of strategic and
industry research on domestic security and counter-terrorism.
2008 Profile
The profile details the Centre has four main strategic programs in 2008. They are:
Program 1: Research
Program 2: Information sharing and educational events
Program 3: Publications
Program 4: Research consultancy
Aim
The primary aim of the Centre is to provide informed, balanced
advice in order to enhance the quality of decisions at senior
levels of the public and private sectors in Australia. Our
core business is to provide strategic level and practical
research, analysis and education services to Australian domestic
security and counter-terrorism stakeholders. These include
government, industry, the community and the media.
Executive Director - Athol
Yates
Athol Yates specialises in analysing policy and programs related to domestic national security, principally critical infrastructure protection, the protection of the built environment, and harnessing industry and research communities to enhance the security of Australia.
His current research areas of interest include:
- capability development in domestic security agencies and in a whole-of nation context
- the nexus between security, business continuity, emergency management and safety
- non-traditional threats - influenza pandemic, climate change and
- whole-of government and whole-of nation coordination
- critical infrastructure protection policy
- mass gathering and precinct security policy
- domestic national security arrangements and coordination
- public-private partnerships in security
- the role played by the private sector in enhancing national security
Athol's qualifications include a Bachelor of Engineering, GradDip Soviet Studies, and Masters of Public Policy. He is the editor of the National Security Practice Notes, and editor of the 3 volume pandemic influenza history series.
His recent publications include:
- National security capability development for non-traditional security threats
- Labor's Flagged National and Homeland Security Principles, Policies and Initiatives
- 2007 E-Security Agenda
- The Future of Private Security January 2007
- Business survival and the influenza pandemic: Essential preparations for critical infrastructure & businesses
- The beginning of the end for risk management?
- Community involvement in national security: An essential but difficult task
He is also the author of the 180 page report Engineering a Safer Australia: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and the Built Environment, which is the only public report on Australia 's critical infrastructure protection efforts.
Tel: 02 6161 5143
Mob: 0402 419 583
Email: athol.yates@homelandsecurity.org.au
Associate
Director - Trevor Thomas
Trevor J Thomas holds a degree in Economics from the Australian
National University, and a post-Graduate Diploma in Business
Practice from the Canberra University. Over the course of
an extensive career in industry and trade policy consulting,
Trevor has been accredited with AusIndustry to deliver business
planning and export marketing services, and the Institute
of Management Consultants as a Chartered Management Consultant
(CMC).
He began his career working for the United States Embassy
in Canberra, developing economic and political assessments
of Australian national and business affairs, and preparing
briefs for the U.S. State Department in Washington. He subsequently
joined the management team of the Australian Chamber of Commerce,
where he was responsible for monitoring Federal Government
affairs and researching/developing Chamber business policy.
In 1997 he consolidated a number of existing defence publications
to create 'Australian Defence Business Review' (ADBR) magazine
and the weekly DIAR.com e-Newsletter, which quickly established
themselves as 'essential reading' for all those involved in
defence policy/procurement decision making.
ADBR magazine was further complimented in 2003 with 'ADBR-Entrepreneur'
(ADBR-E), a monthly e-Newsletter looking in detail at the
impact for business of reforms being progressed to the military
capability definition and procurement infrastructure arising
out of the Government's adoption of the Kinnaird report.
Trevor retains an active personal interest in the synthesis
of development programs for Australian industry, and regularly
contributes to public discussion of industry issues, drawing
on his extensive practical experience in terms of the inter-relationship
of Government economic, political and industry policies, and
their application and effect on the affairs of the private
sector.
Trevor is one of the two anchors for National Security Radio.
Tel: 02 6280 5876
Email: busicom@ozemail.com.au
Web: www.adbr.com.au
Research
Associates
Clive Williams MG
Clive Williams has a career background as an officer in Australian Military Intelligence, which included a number of overseas intelligence appointments. After leaving the Army in 1981, he pursued a civilian career in Defence Intelligence, working mainly on transnational issues. He was a Chevening scholar at the War Studies Department, King's College, London, in 1987. He has worked and lectured internationally on terrorism-related issues since 1980, and started running terrorism courses at the ANU in 1996. He left Defence in 2002, and has since run a Masters course elective on "Terrorism and Counterterrorism" at the ANU and at a number of Australian and overseas universities. This elective has been supplemented by another elective, "Security in Business and Government", run with John McFarlane since 2003. He became an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism (PICT) at Macquarie University in 2006. He also became a Visiting Professor at the Department of Human and Social Sciences (HASS) at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in 2006.
Email: clive.williams@anu.edu.au
Brett Peppler 
Brett Peppler is the
Managing Director, Intelligent Futures Pty Ltd. Intelligent Futures Pty Ltd is an independent, Canberra-based consultancy specialising in the knowledge demands of strategic planning. A key client challenge in strategic planning is the management of uncertainty in decision making. This challenge is best met by employing forward-looking, adaptive strategies, and growing organisational capacity for business strategic planning can be enhanced through tailored and targeted training solutions.
Brett Peppler has over 28 years experience in the strategic planning field, including appointments and professional development opportunities in the United States of America, Europe, New Zealand, and throughout south-east Asia. Brett has extensive experience as a manager, analyst, facilitator, trainer, educator and futurist, including personal responsibility for coordinating corporate analytical programs, and the technical direction of analytical teams.
Email: brett.peppler@homelandsecurity.org.au
Jason Brown
Jason Brown is the National Security Director for the Thales Australia. He is responsible for security liaison with government, law enforcement and intelligence communities to develop cooperative arrangements to minimise risk to Thales Australia and those in the community that it supports. He is also responsible to ensure compliance with international and Commonwealth requirements for national security and relevant federal and state laws governing security of ordnance and promulgation and auditing Thales Australia security risk management policies and processes.
Jason has 27 years previous experience in Commonwealth Government with appointments.
He has served on a number of senior boards and committees in both the Public Sector and Private Institutions. Including;
• Member of the National Centre for Security Standards.
• Member of the Overseas Security Advisory Council - Australia
• Regional Vice President ASIS International, Member of ASIS Standards and Guidelines Commission.
• National Convenor - Special Interest Group on Security for the Risk Management Institution of Australasia,
• Member Research Network for a Secure Australia Advisory Board.
• Advisor to the Export Control Forum of the Australian Industry Group Defence Council
Email: jason.brown@thalesgroup.com.au
Don Williams CPP
Don Williams holds qualifications in Security Management, Security Risk Management as well as Project and Resource Management. He is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and a member of the American Society for Industrial Security (International) and consults on strategic security analysis. Based on his security qualifications and over 20 year’s experience as a bomb technician in the Australian Army, including three years at the Australian Bomb Data Centre, Don was appointed the Bomb Risk Manager for the Sydney Olympics and Paralympics. He is a member of the Venue Managers’ Association and the Institute of Explosive Engineers and is the Australian Chapter Director of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators.
Email: donwilliams@grapevine.net.au
Irfan Yusuf
Irfan Yusuf holds undergraduate degrees in Economics and Law from Macquarie University and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Technology Sydney . He was admitted as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in June 1994. The bulk of his practice has been in civil litigation, with an emphasis on workplace relations.
Irfan has advised and represented a number of ethnic and religious bodies as well as independent schools within Australia's Muslim communities. He has been active in various bodies, both as a legal adviser and on various boards and committees.
Julian
Talbot
Julian is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) with over 20 years international security risk management experience including leading workgroups of up to 200 people, security budgets to $56 million and responsibility for asset portfolios to $200 million. His career includes serving as Head of Security for:
- The Australian Trade Commission’s international operations at 120 posts across 60 countries
- Australia’s largest natural resources project, the $14 billion North-West Shelf Gas Project
- Malaysian Smelting Corporations Indonesian mining operations
Julian has also served as senior risk adviser to the Australian Governments Department of Health and Ageing, National Operations Support Manager for Australia’s network of immigration detention centres and Operations Manager for a commercial security services company. Julian holds a Master of Risk Management from Monash University together with qualifications in management, security, training, project management and emergency response. As a former member of an Army Reserve Special Forces unit Julian’s background includes competencies as patrol commander, water operator, medic, visual tracker, unarmed combat exponent and surveillance operative.
Julian is a Director of the Risk Management Institution of Australasia (RMIA), Assistant Regional Vice President with ASIS International and an inaugural National Chairman of the RMIA Security Risk Management Special Interest Group (SSIG).
Mob: 0414 341349
Email: julian.talbot@jakeman.com.au
David
Beveridge
David W Beveridge, Research Associate David has more than
20 years experience as a branch and section manager in the
Departments of Defence and Prime Minister and Cabinet. He
was seconded to ASIO to work on governance and strategic planning
during the Sydney Olympics and in a review of security intelligence
arrangements post 9-11.
Until recently, he was a member of the strategy and futures
planning team in the Defence CIO Group.
His other experience includes being involved in government
reviews includes the post-Cold War reviews of the Australian
Intelligence Community and a Judicial Inquiry into ASIS. He
has an interest in emergency management issues.
He is currently a PhD student and his thesis examines the
impact of the information age on Australian national intelligence.
Dr Luke Howie
Dr Howie works at the School of Political and Social
Inquiry at Monash University. His thesis was entitled 'Terrorism
Threat Perceptions and Workplace Relations'. Luke currently
lectures in Global Security (Deakin University) and Human
Behaviour (Monash University) but his teaching experience
extends to Management, Organisational Behaviour, and Industrial
Relations.
School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
Mobile: 0411 067587
Email: Luke.Howie@arts.monash.edu.au
Research
Interns
Chad Whelan
Chad is a PhD candidate at Deakin University in the field
of criminology. He has completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
degree from Deakin University majoring in the areas of criminology
and sociology, and has five years experience in the commercial
security sector.
Chad's current research examines Australia's counter-terrorism
arrangements-political and institutional-looking at the mechanisms
in place that are designed to prevent, and respond to, acts
of terrorism at the subnational, national and transnational
level. In addition, his research interests extend to a variety
of areas related to policing, transnational crime, terrorism
and global security.
Chad also teaches in the discipline of criminology and police
studies and has been involved in the development of terrorism
studies units at Deakin University.
Mobile: 0409 995 072
Email: cwhelan@deakin.edu.au
Owen Weatherly
Owen undertook a Research Internship with the Australian Homeland Security Research Centre in 2007/8.
Email:.admin@homelandsecurity.org.au
Key Staff
Mimi Mekdarasouk, Events Coordinator
Email: events@homelandsecurity.org.au
Trudy Southgate, Admin/Event Coordinator
Email:.admin@homelandsecurity.org.au
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