Our Team

Cameron Watts

Managing Director

Cameron Watts is a former national security official with more than two decades of experience in complex geo-political and geo-strategic matters affecting Australia and the Indo-Pacific region.

Cameron has led multi-disciplinary teams in several domains in the national security environment, and represented the Australian Government as a subject matter expert in national security to supra-national forums such as the G20, ASEAN, OECD, and the UN.


Paul Maley

Director

Paul Maley is a multi-award winning journalist, consultant and senior national security policy advisor.

From 2010-2020 Paul was The Australian newspapers National Security & Defence Editor, during which time he won numerous awards including a Walkley Award, the Lowy International Media Award and the Australian Press Council’s Press Freedom Medal. 

Paul worked as a senior advisor to the Defence Minister and the Home Affairs Minister, where he was the office’s senior cyber security advisor. Paul has relationships at the highest levels of Australian media, government & industry.