Co-Founder / Director
Prior to supporting the establishment of CI-ISAC Australia in 2022, Scott worked as the Global Intelligence Officer for FS-ISAC (2019-2022), where he was responsible for leading the threat intelligence fusion cell for the global financial sector in Asia Pacific. Scott’s shift to the private sector followed over a decade in academia at the University of Melbourne and the University of Western Australia, where his research focused on international security issues, psychology, and extremism, while his teaching areas were global criminology and field research methodology.
Scott’s journey to academia followed a stint (2006-08) at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s (ASIO) critical infrastructure protection directorate (CIPD), where he was Lead Analyst responsible for banking and finance and oil and gas sectors. There, Scott authored national threat assessments and delivered assessments to key state government and private sector CI owners and operators.
Scott is regularly engaged as a subject matter expert by governments, international private sector MNEs, universities, and think tanks. He holds a PhD from the Australian National University (ANU) and a master’s in strategic studies (ANU) and has published two books and over a dozen leading peer-reviewed academic journal articles in journals such as the Australian Journal of International Affairs, Defence and Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, Journal of Pacific Affairs, and the Journal of Pacific History.
Earlier in his career (1992-1995), Scott was a signaller and command post operator in the Royal Australian Artillery. After the army, Scott lived and worked in New Zealand as a mountain guide and in Emergency Management as a professional mountain rescuer and team leader for the Department of Conservation in Mt Cook and the New Zealand Police in Christchurch (1997-2004).
