Space Environment Research Centre, ACT Brett Biddington is the founder of a Canberra-based consulting company which specialises in space and cyber security matters from policy, advocacy and national capacity development perspectives, including in education. He also addresses broader questions of institutional behaviour especially governance, leadership and strategy against backgrounds of uncertainty and technological change. He is a Director of the Space Environment Research Centre (SERC) and the Australian Cyber Security Research Institute Ltd (ACSRI). He is also a Director and the Treasurer of the Institute for Regional Security (IFRS), a Canberra-based “think tank” that addresses the long-term national security challenges faced by Australia and the Asia Pacific region. He is responsible, on behalf of the Space Industry Association of Australia (SIAA), for organising the International Astronautical Congress, the world’s largest annual space conference (3,500 delegates), which will be held in Adelaide in September 2017. He is a past chair of the SIAA and sits on several advisory boards and committees concerned with the governance of Australia’s space and astronomy activities and with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and outreach. Between 2002 and 2009 he was a member of Cisco Systems’ global space team. In 2002 Brett left the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) on completion of almost 23 years of service. He served as the senior intelligence officer and later as the Provost Marshal (head of policing and security) of the RAAF before moving into capability development. There he sponsored a two billion dollar portfolio of projects in the command and control, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare domains. This included the Jindalee Over the Horizon Radar project and classified and unclassified space initiatives. He holds Adjunct Professorial appointments in the Security Research Institute at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia and also in the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at the RMIT University in Melbourne, Victoria. In June 2012 he was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to the Australian space sector.