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Professor The Hon. Peter Anderson AM – Director The Hon. Professor Peter Anderson has been associated with policing for more than 40 years, including a 10-year career within the NSW Police Force, largely as a Police Prosecutor, before being elected to the NSW Parliament in 1978. Between 1981 and 1986 he was Minister for Police and Emergency Services, before taking on a range of other senior portfolios including Youth and Community Affairs, Aboriginal Affairs and Health. From 1989 to 1994 he served as Shadow Minister for Police and Emergency Services. Professor Anderson is currently serving as Chairman of the Council for Asian Terrorism Research (CATR), Member of the Advisory Committee of the Research network for a Secure Australia (RNSA), Member of the International Advisory Board of the Philippine Institute for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR), Member of the International Advisory Council of the Bangladesh Centre for Terrorism Research (BCTR). |
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Associate Professor Cindy Davids – Academic Director Professor Cindy Davids, Academic Director of the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, has a rich and varied academic background. Her research and teaching has included a wide range of topics including her recent book: "Conflict of Interest in Policing: Problems, Practices, and Principles". Other areas of expertise include: Policing, Criminology, and Criminal Justice; Business, Professional, and Public Sector Ethics, Regulation and Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Conflict of Interest in the Public Service; Police Misconduct, Regulation, and Accountability; Governmentality Studies in Accounting; Conflicts of Interest in Professional Accounting and Social and Critical Accounting.
Professor Davids' more recent teaching areas include: Business Law; Forensic Accounting; Social and Critical Perspectives on Accounting. |
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Rhonda Jenkins FRSA – Executive Manager, Business Development and Operations Rhonda has 30 years of association with tertiary education, and experience with universities in New South Wales, England and United States, as an academic and research manager. She has also worked in curriculum and policy development in the NSW Department of Education and Training. She has held senior positions in government and commercial organisations and has managed her own educational consulting company for 10 years. She is the inaugural Chair of RSA in Australia and New Zealand, an international chapter of RSA London. |
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Dr Gregory Pemberton - Senior Lecturer A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and former army officer, Dr Pemberton completed his doctorate at the University of Sydney and has written several books on Australian and American international relations dealing especially with Asia. He is currently researching early international counter-terrorism. He teaches various subjects in both PICT and ISS programs and supervises doctoral students at the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism at Macquarie University. |
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Marijana Wright - Administration Coordinator Marijana is a Journalism and Media Studies graduate who worked in South Africa as a journalist, researcher and sub editor before migrating to Australia over 10 years ago. Since then she has worked in a variety of marketing, media and managerial roles in Sydney. Marijana's main areas of responsibility include, finance and professional course administration and the development and implementation of the marketing strategies for the Centre. |
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Dr. Alfred Gerstl - Lecturer Before joining PICT, Alfred taught International Relations and Political Theory at the Universities of Vienna and Passau (Germany). These two disciplines are also the subject of his teaching and research at PICT. In addition, he has specialised in regional cooperation in Southeast Asia. Alfred is also the scientific director of the Vienna-based Society for South-East Asian Studies (SEAS), a non-profit research society. |
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Shanaka Jayasekara – Associate Lecturer (Research), OUA Academic Coordinator Shanaka holds an M.Litt in International Security from University of St Andrews in Scotland. He was awarded the British Chevening Scholarship by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (UK). He completed a Postgraduate Internship with the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at St Andrews in Scotland. He served as an Advisor to the Sri Lanka delegation for seven rounds of peace negotiations with an armed group from 2002-2006. Shanaka was awarded the START Fellowship for 2008-2009 by the Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) of the US Department of Homeland Security, in support of his research on weapons procurement networks. |
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Virginia Small - Associate Lecturer |
| Visiting Fellows | |
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Senior Superintendent General Park, Ki Ryun |
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Lydia Khalil Lydia Khalil is a visiting fellow at PICT. She has worked in the United States and abroad for the United States government, international organisations, private companies and think tanks on a variety of international political and security issues. She specialises in Middle East politics and international terrorism. Lydia was recently appointed as a non resident fellow at the Lowy Institute as a specialist in their West Asia program. She has worked as a counterterrorism analyst for the New York Police Department and in Iraq as a governance policy advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Prior to her assignment in Iraq, she was appointed to the White House Office of Homeland Security as a graduate fellow. She is also a senior policy associate to the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED). She was born in Cairo, Egypt and is a native Arabic speaker. |