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Welcome Remarks
Michael Shoebridge
Michael joined ASPI in February 2018 as the Director of the Defence & Strategy program. ... More
Michael Shoebridge
Michael joined ASPI in February 2018 as the Director of the Defence & Strategy program. Michael has worked in policy, intelligence and project delivery in Defence, as well as in the Prime Minister’s department and the Department of Finance. He was the defence policy person in the Australian Embassy in Washington, and has worked in two Commonwealth Ministers’ offices. His role before joining ASPI was as the head of Defence’s Contestability function, providing critical but constructive analysis of the projects and programs in the Government’s integrated investment program for Defence.
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Session 1: Geopolitical realities—trends that will shape the world of 2025
Key themes: What are the key drivers that will shape the world order and/or could lead to conflict in the next decade? Centered around themes such as: collapse of liberalism and rise of authoritarianism, climate change, demography, rate of technological change, power and resource competition

Peter Jennings PSM
Peter has worked at senior levels in the Australian Public Service on defence and national... More
Peter Jennings PSM
Peter has worked at senior levels in the Australian Public Service on defence and national security. Career highlights include being Deputy Secretary for Strategy in the Defence Department (2009-12); Chief of Staff to the Minister for Defence (1996-98) and Senior Adviser for Strategic Policy to the Prime Minister (2002-03).
Since May 2012 Peter has expanded ASPI’s role from its original high-quality research on defence to include research on cyber security; policing and international law enforcement, border security, national resilience and counter terrorism studies. Now with around 40 staff and close working relations with Government, Parliament and industry, ASPI is Australia’s leading think-tank on national security.
Peter’s research interests include Australian and regional defence policies, military operations, crisis management, government decision making and future defence capabilities.
Peter led the ‘External Expert Panel’ appointed by Government in early 2014 to advise Ministers and the Defence Department on the Defence White Paper, released in February 2016. Peter is a member of the Australia-Germany Advisory Group, appointed by the Prime Minister and German Chancellor in 2015 to develop closer bilateral relations. He is a member of the Advisory Group on Australia-Africa Relations advising the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Peter has previously held a number Senior Executive Service positions in Defence including First Assistant Secretary International Policy Division, First Assistant Secretary Coordination and Public Affairs and Secretary of the Defence Audit and Risk Committee.
Peter was Director of Programs at ASPI between late 2003 and January 2006 and has taught postgraduate studies on terrorism at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA).
In the Defence Department, Peter has been the Deputy Director of the then titled Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (2002) and head of the Strategic Policy Branch (1998–1999). In late 1999 Peter was co-director of the East Timor Policy Unit, responsible for developing Australia’s policy approaches to the international peacekeeping operation in East Timor. Following that, as an acting First Assistant Secretary, Peter was closely involved in developing the 2000 Defence White Paper.
Peter studied at the London Business School in 2000–2001 as a Sloan Fellow and was awarded a Masters of Science (Management) with Distinction. He has a Master of Arts Degree in International Relations from the Australian National University (1987) and a BA (Honours) in History from the University of Tasmania (1980–1984). He has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985). Peter taught politics and international relations at the University of New South Wales/ADFA (1987–1990).
Peter was awarded the Public Service Medal in the Australia Day 2013 Honors list for outstanding public service through the development of Australia's strategic and defence policy, particularly in the areas of Australian Defence Force operations in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan. In February 2016 Peter was awarded the French decoration of Knight in the National Order of Legion d’Honneur.

Penny Burtt
Penny Burtt is the Group CEO of Asialink, Australia's leading centre for the promotion of public... More
Penny Burtt
Penny Burtt is the Group CEO of Asialink, Australia's leading centre for the promotion of public understanding of the countries of Asia and of Australia's role in the region. She joined Asialink from global payments company Visa, where she served as Vice President, Government Affairs, Asia Pacific. Prior to Visa, Penny led External Relations and Client Service Risk for the Asia Pacific with McKinsey&Company. Penny is a former diplomat and represented Australia at a senior level in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and at the United Nations in Geneva and New York. She previously served as an Adviser to the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs. She has also served on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations in the region including the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), the U.S. National Center for APEC and the Singapore Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). A passionate advocate of women’s leadership, Penny has served on the executive of BoardAgender, Singapore’s women’s board advocacy organization, has been a mentor and advisor with several women’s groups and is a frequent speaker on women’s leadership in Asia. Passionate about women’s leadership, Penny has been a strong advocate of women on Boards, a long term mentor and supporter with the Singapore Young Women’s Leadership Connection and has worked with a range of companies to enhance their diversity outcomes
Michal Baranowski
Michał Baranowski is the director of GMF's Warsaw office, where he provides overall... More
Michal Baranowski
Michał Baranowski is the director of GMF's Warsaw office, where he provides overall strategic direction and leadership for the organization’s work in Poland, the Baltic states, and the V4 countries. He writes and speaks extensively on NATO, transatlantic relations, and U.S. foreign policy, and is frequently quoted in outlets such as Associated Press, Financial Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Die Welt, Rzeczpospolita, Reuters, Axios, Le Soir, Washington Post and Foreign Affairs. He publishes in Polish, American, and European media and policy journals. He is a member of the Polish-German reflection group established by presidents of Poland and Germany. He holds a master's of European public affairs from Maastricht University, and has studied at Mercer University in the United States and the University of Oxford.

Dr Elizabeth Buchanan
Dr Elizabeth Buchanan is a Research Fellow at the ANU Centre for European Studies. Her areas of... More
Dr Elizabeth Buchanan
Dr Elizabeth Buchanan is a Research Fellow at the ANU Centre for European Studies. Her areas of expertise are Russian foreign energy strategy and Russia’s global polar strategy. Dr Buchanan completed a PhD on Russian Arctic strategy under Vladimir Putin and holds an Honours degree in Russian-Ukrainian natural gas relations. Dr Buchanan was recently a Maritime Fellow at the NATO Defense College. She has published widely on polar geopolitics most recently with Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and The Lowy Institute. Dr Buchanan is a Non-Resident Fellow of the Institute of the North, Alaska, and is the Polar Analyst for The Moscow Times. Elizabeth has been a Visiting Scholar with The Brookings Institution and has work experience in the global oil sector. She is a co-managing Editor of Security Challenges – Australia’s sole academic journal for the study of future security challenges. In 2018, she was an Australian Institute of International Affairs Early Career Research Awardee and in 2019 Dr Buchanan was listed as a ‘Young Woman to Watch in International Affairs’.
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Keynote Address

Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC
Senator Reynolds was elected to the Australian Senate in 2014 and is a passionate representative... More
Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC
Senator Reynolds was elected to the Australian Senate in 2014 and is a passionate representative for her state of Western Australia. She has more than 20 years’ experience at the national political level working for Members of Parliament and the Liberal Party of Australia. Senator Reynolds served for 29 years in the Australian Army as a Reserve Officer in a wide range of part and full time appointments. She also has corporate experience. Key career appointments include: Chief of Staff to the Minister for Justice and Customs, Project Director with Raytheon Australia, Deputy Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia, Commanding Officer of a Combat Service Support Battalion and Adjutant General of Army, the Chief of Army’s key governance advisor. Senator Reynolds was the first woman in the Australian Army Reserves to be promoted to the rank of Brigadier and was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross. She has completed a Master of Arts (Strategic Studies). On March 2 2019, Senator Reynolds was sworn in as Minister for Defence Industry, Emergency Management and North Queensland Recovery in the Morrison Coalition Government. This follows her appointment as Assistant Minister for Home Affairs on August 28, 2018. Before her Ministerial appointment, Senator Reynolds was a member of nine Parliamentary committees and chaired the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, and the Defence Sub-Committee on Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade. Senator Reynolds is co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Defence, Friends of Australian Books and Writers, Friends of Disability and the Australia-Indonesia Parliamentary Friendship Groups. She is a passionate advocate for WA Industry including defence, space and rare earths sectors. Senator Reynolds is also a supporter of innovation, gender equality and federation reform. She is proud to work closely with both the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and the Perth USAsia Centre.
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Session 2: Geopolitical realities – the key players’ power trajectories to 2025
Key themes: How are the relative power dynamics between the great powers changing? What realignments will that lead to in the Indo-Pacific?

Peter N Varghese AO
Peter Varghese began as Chancellor of The University of Queensland on 11 July 2016. Prior to... More
Peter N Varghese AO
Peter Varghese began as Chancellor of The University of Queensland on 11 July 2016. Prior to this appointment, Mr Varghese’s extensive career in public service and diplomacy spanned 38 years and included senior positions in foreign affairs, trade policy and intelligence. Most recently, he served as Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2012-2016). Previous senior appointments included High Commissioner to India (2009-2012), High Commissioner to Malaysia (2000-2002), Director-General of the Office of National Assessments (2004-2009), and Senior Advisor (International) to the Prime Minister of Australia (2003-2004). Mr Varghese was the author of a comprehensive India Economic Strategy to 2035 commissioned by the Australian Prime Minister and submitted in July 2018. Mr Varghese was educated at The University of Queensland, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a University Medal in history in 1978. He was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in 2010 and received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of Queensland in 2013. Mr Varghese sits on the boards of AMP Pty Limited and North Queensland Airports. He is also on the international governing board of the Rajaratnum School of International Studies in Singapore and the governing board of Nalanda University in India.

Dr Willy Lam
With 40 years of experience writing and researching about China, Willy Lam is a recognized... More
Dr Willy Lam
With 40 years of experience writing and researching about China, Willy Lam is a recognized expert on areas including the Chinese Communist Party, elite politics, foreign policy, the People’s Liberation Army, as well as the country’s economic and political reform. Dr Lam is an Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Centre for China Studies, History Department and the Master’s Program in Global Political Economy). He is also a Senior Fellow at Jamestown Foundation, a foreign-policy think tank in Washington D.C. The veteran Sinologist has published seven books on China. They include: Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Communist Party (as editor) (Routledge, London, 2017); Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping (Routledge, London, 2015); Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era (M.E. Sharpe, New York, 2006); An Unvarnished Portrait of Hu Jintao (in Japanese) (Shogagukan Press, Tokyo, 2002); The Era of Jiang Zemin (Prentice Hall, Singapore & New York, 1999); and China after Deng Xiaoping (John Wiley & Sons, Singapore & New York, 1995). His new book The Struggle for China’s Future (Routledge) will be published in late 2019.
Dr Jennifer S. Hunt
Dr Jennifer S. Hunt is a lecturer in the National Security College, ANU and a Research... More
Dr Jennifer S. Hunt
Dr Jennifer S. Hunt is a lecturer in the National Security College, ANU and a Research Associate at the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney, specialising in the national security of critical systems including energy and cyber. Dr. Hunt has published on comparative national security policy in the US, Australia, and the Arab Gulf. She has provided expert commentary on ABC’s Q&A, The Project, BBC, and the History Channel.

Dr Rebecca Strating
Bec is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the Department of Politics,... More
Dr Rebecca Strating
Bec is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Her current research interests include maritime disputes in the Indo-Pacific and Australian foreign policy. Bec is a non-resident research fellow at Perth US-Asia Centre and in 2019, was awarded an Asia Studies Visiting Fellowship at the East-West Center in Washington DC to conduct a research project titled ‘Defending the rules-based maritime order’. Bec received her PhD in politics from Monash University in 2013. She has published two monographs and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. In 2018, her article on the Timor Sea maritime dispute was awarded the prestigious Boyer Prize by the Australian Institute of International Affairs for best article published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs in 2017. Bec contributes regularly to public debates about politics and foreign policy, writing for policy forums such as Broad Agenda, Lowy Interpreter, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative and Australian Strategic Policy Initiative, and is a commissioning editor for the Australian Institute of International Affairs’ publication Australian Outlook. She has provided expert comment for global and Australian media organisations including the ABC, The Age and Reuters, and in 2017, she was invited to testify as an expert witness in Australian federal parliament. Bec is an advocate for the greater visibility of women in Australian foreign policy and security debates. She tweets at @becstrating.

Dr Huong Le Thu
Dr Huong Le Thu is a senior analyst at ASPI, Defence and Strategy Program. Prior to joining... More
Dr Huong Le Thu
Dr Huong Le Thu is a senior analyst at ASPI, Defence and Strategy Program. Prior to joining ASPI she worked at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs (ANU), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), and Institute of International Relations (Taiwan). Her research interests include multilateral security in Asia, foreign policy in post-socialist countries, as well as identity politics. She has held short-term research fellowships in Seoul (private think-tank), Kuala Lumpur (University of Malaya) and Jakarta (the ASEAN Secretariat). She is an alumna of the DKI Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, and a recipient of the U.S. State Department Fellowship for East Asian Security and IISS ShangriLa Dialogue Southeast Asian Fellow. Dr Le Thu’s academic publications have appeared in The Pacific Review, Asia-Europe Journal, Oxford University Press among others; her policy analyses have featured: TheInternational Institute for Strategic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, The Brookings Institution, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, East West Center, Royal United Services Institute, Nikkei Asian Review, South China Morning Post, Sydney Morning Herald etc.
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

Peter W. Singer
Peter Warren Singer is Strategist at New America. He has been named by the Smithsonian as... More
Peter W. Singer
Peter Warren Singer is Strategist at New America. He has been named by the Smithsonian as one of the nation’s 100 leading innovators, by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues, by Foreign Policy to their Top 100 Global Thinkers List, as an official “Mad Scientist” for the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, and by Onalytica social media data analysis as one of the ten most influential voices in the world on cybersecurity and 25th most influential in the field of robotics. Peter’s award winning books include Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, Children at War, Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century; and Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know and Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War, a technothriller crossed with nonfiction research, which has been endorsed by people who range from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the co-inventor of the Internet to the writer of HBO Game of Thrones. His latest book is LikeWar (Oct 2018, HMH), which explores how social media has changed war and politics, and war and politics has changed social media. It was named an Amazon book of the year, a NY Times “new and notable,” and reviewed by Booklistas “LikeWar should be required reading for everyone living in a democracy and all who aspire to.” His past work include serving at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Harvard University, an editor at Popular Science magazine, and as the founding director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at Brookings, where he was the youngest person named senior fellow in its 100 year history.
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Session 3: Technologies that will shape future warfare
Key themes: What future technologies will be reality by 2025? What should we be investing in? What technologies will take longer and what are the implications of that?

Elsa B. Kania
Elsa B. Kania is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at... More
Elsa B. Kania
Elsa B. Kania is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Her research focuses on Chinese military innovation in emerging technologies in support of the Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Initiative at CNAS, where she also acts as a member of the research team for the new Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security. Her analytic interests include Chinese military modernization, information warfare, and defense science and technology. She has been invited to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC). Elsa is an independent analyst, consultant, and co-founder of the China Cyber and Intelligence Studies Institute. She was a 2018 Fulbright Specialist and is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre. Elsa works in support of the China Aerospace Studies Institute through its Associates Program, and she is a policy advisor for the non-profit Technology for Global Security. Elsa has also been named an official “Mad Scientist” by the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command. Elsa is a PhD student in Harvard University's Department of Government, and she is a graduate of Harvard College (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). Her thesis on the evolution of the PLA’s strategic thinking on information warfare was awarded the James Gordon Bennett Prize. Her prior professional experience includes time with the Department of Defense, the Long Term Strategy Group, FireEye, Inc., and the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy. While at Harvard, she has worked as a research assistant at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Elsa was a Boren Scholar in Beijing, China, and she has professional proficiency in Mandarin Chinese.
Dr Andrew Davies
Dr Andrew Davies joined ASPI in 2006 and was the inaugural Director of Defence and Strategy. He... More
Dr Andrew Davies
Dr Andrew Davies joined ASPI in 2006 and was the inaugural Director of Defence and Strategy. He is now a Senior Fellow with the Institute and lectures on defence acquisition and intelligence at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the ANU. He has written extensively on ADF capability and force structuring issues, including platform options for air and maritime combat, industry issues, and decision-making in the Department of Defence. He has an ongoing interest in the future submarine and Joint Strike Fighter projects, and his work on both has made an important contribution to the public understanding of those projects here and abroad.
Before joining ASPI, Andrew was a post doctoral fellow in physics at Melbourne University and the ANU. He then spent twelve years in the Department of Defence in the areas of capability analysis and intelligence.

Dr Todd Mansell
Dr Todd Mansell is Chief Science Strategy and Program Division. He is a career scientist, a... More
Dr Todd Mansell
Dr Todd Mansell is Chief Science Strategy and Program Division. He is a career scientist, a leader within Australia's Department of Defence and an Adjunct Professor with the University of South Australia. As Chief of Science Strategy and Program Division he is responsible for ensuring DST has the S&T capability required to meet Defence's current and future needs. In 2017, Dr Mansell was seconded to Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) where he led the Taskforce responsible for producing the nation's 2030 Innovation, Science and Research Strategic Plan titled Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation. Other roles that Dr Mansell has held during his 29 year career within defence include First Assistant Secretary – Strategic Policy and Intelligence Initiatives in Strategic Policy and Intelligence Group and Chief of Joint and Operations Analysis Division (JOAD) (2013-2016) where he led the scientific analysis supporting the Defence White Paper 2016 and shaped the development of the new Defence Innovation System. He was also Chief of Air Operations Division from 2011-2013 (where he was responsible for S&T support to major programs including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, E/F-18G Growler, and ADF helicopter programs), and Research Leader responsible for the S&T in support of Australia's submarine (Collins Class and Future Submarine Project) and warship programs.
Fergus Hanson
Fergus Hanson is the Head of the International Cyber Policy Centre. He is the author... More
Fergus Hanson
Fergus Hanson is the Head of the International Cyber Policy Centre. He is the author of Internet Wars and has published widely on a range of cyber and foreign policy topics. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Professional Fulbright Scholar based at Georgetown University working on the uptake of new technologies by the US government. He has worked for the UN, as a Program Director at the Lowy Institute and served as a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in The Hague. He has been a Fellow at Cambridge University’s Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Pacific Forum.
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Session 4: Multi-domain warfare now and in 2025
Key themes: What does multi-domain warfare look like now? How close are we to truly multi-domain operations? How should we be adjusting the way we operate in 2025? How are our adversaries conducting multi-domain warfare?

Gary Dawson
Gary Dawson joined Thales Australia as Vice President Strategy in March 2017 after a career... More
Gary Dawson
Gary Dawson joined Thales Australia as Vice President Strategy in March 2017 after a career spanning media, politics, corporate affairs and CEO of one of Australia’s leading industry associations. This is his second stint at Thales having previously worked as VP Communications from 2008-2012. As VP Strategy Gary has responsibility for the over-arching business strategy of Thales in Australia along with Communications and External Affairs, working closely with the business units and functions. With an Economics Degree from the Australian National University he brings to the role policy and strategy experience at the highest level across both public and private sectors including five years as a Senior Advisor to former Prime Minister John Howard, from 1999-2004. Prior to re-joining Thales Australia Gary was CEO of the Australian Food and Grocery Council, representing Australia’s $120bn value-adding food sector, from 2012-2017.

Josiah R. Collens, Jr.
Mr. Josiah R. “Josh” Collens, Jr., has been with MITRE for the past 30 years. He... More
Josiah R. Collens, Jr.
Mr. Josiah R. “Josh” Collens, Jr., has been with MITRE for the past 30 years. He currently serves as the Director for AF International Programs for MITRE’s Department of Defense (DoD) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), the National Security Engineering Center (NSEC). In this position he oversees all Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Direct Commercial Sales projects. Josh also serves as Co-Portfolio Director for the AF Air Operations Portfolio. He oversees such programs as the Air and Space Operations Center, AWACS and Joint STARS. Josh is a multi-discipline systems engineer with over 37 years of Command and Control (C2) experience, ranging from Space systems to Special Operations. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from The Citadel (The Military College of South Carolina) and an M.S. in computer information systems from Boston University. Josh served as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force from 1982 to 1986. He separated from active duty in the Air Force at the rank of Captain.
Dr Marcus Hellyer
Marcus is a Senior Analyst focusing on Defence economics and military capability. Previously he... More
Dr Marcus Hellyer
Marcus is a Senior Analyst focusing on Defence economics and military capability. Previously he was a senior public servant in the Department of Defence, responsible for ensuring that the government was provided with the best possible advice and recommendations on major capital investments such as the Joint Strike Fighter, Future Frigate and Future Submarine. He also developed and administered Defence’s capital investment program. Marcus has also worked in Australia’s intelligence community as a terrorism analyst. Before joining the public service, Marcus had a career as an academic historian in the United States.
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Conference Dinner: Registration and pre-dinner drinks
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Conference Dinner: Keynote Address

General Angus Campbell, AO, DSC
General Angus Campbell joined the Australian Army in 1981, graduating from the Royal Military... More
General Angus Campbell, AO, DSC
General Angus Campbell joined the Australian Army in 1981, graduating from the Royal Military College - Duntroon in 1984. He was assigned to the Royal Australian Infantry Corps and initially served as a platoon commander in the 3rd Battalion (Parachute), The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). He then served in troop and squadron command appointments within the Special Air Service Regiment. In 2001 he was appointed the Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2RAR). While in command, the battalion group deployed to East Timor, as a component of the United Nations Transitional Administration East Timor. General Campbell has also served in a range of staff appointments including as Aide-de-Camp to the Chief of Army, as a strategic policy officer in Army Headquarters, an instructor at the Australian Command and Staff College and as Chief of Staff to the Chief of the Defence Force. In late 2005, he joined the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as a First Assistant Secretary to head the Office of National Security and was subsequently promoted to Deputy Secretary and appointed to the position of Deputy National Security Adviser. In these roles he was responsible for the preparation of advice to the Prime Minister on national security matters and coordinating the development of whole-of-government national security policy. Upon his return to the Australian Defence Force in early 2010 he was appointed to the rank of Major General and led the Military Strategic Commitments staff in Defence headquarters until January 2011, when he assumed command of Australian forces deployed in the Middle East Area of Operations. He subsequently served as Deputy Chief of Army from February 2012 to September 2013, when he was promoted to Lieutenant General to command the Joint Agency Task Force responsible for the implementation of Operation Sovereign Borders. On 16 May 2015, he was appointed Chief of the Australian Army. General Campbell was subsequently promoted and appointed to command of the Australian Defence Force on 7 July 2018. General Campbell holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Philosophy in International Relations from Cambridge University and he is a graduate of the Australian Army Command and Staff College.
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