Telecommunications Sector Lead
Huon is a consultant and a founding partner of Digital Resilience Network, a critical infrastructure resilience advisory firm. Huon has worked extensively in strategic policy across Australia’s leading think tanks and in the University sector, and globally for the UN Industrial Development Organisation and Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development.
From 2023 – 2024 Huon led the development of Australia’s Telecommunications Resilience Profile, while at the Australian National University Tech Policy Design Centre. This was a national-first project that developed a principled-based cyber-governance framework and maturity model to guide the development of resilience capabilities across the telecommunications sector.
At the ANU he was the Extreme Events and Future Scenarios Research Cluster lead. At Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Huon designed a whole-of-defence cyber security career strategy for Indigenous candidates for the Department of Defence, which significantly enhanced Defence’s capabilities for 5% of its workforce. He has conducted expert assessments of strategies to improve small and medium sized (SME) enterprise productivity including digitisation and human capital investment for the UNIDO Directorate of SDG Innovation and Economic Transformation and the OECD.
He has published extensively on skills, cyber security governance, artificial intelligence and industry policy. His work on artificial intelligence was cited in Standard Australia’s AI Standards Roadmap. He has lectured masters students on US economic policy at the United States Studies Centre and in Political Economy at the University of Sydney and has a Phd in International Political Economy and a First Class Honours Degree in Economics and Social Science from the University of Sydney
