The production team

National Security Radio is produced by Athol Yates and Trevor Thomas.

Athol Yates
Athol Yates specialises in analysing national security policy and the role played by the private sector in enhancing national security. He has written extensively on the subject as well as giving a large number of invited presentations.

His specialisations include:

• influenza pandemic planning
• critical infrastructure protection policy
• mass gathering and precinct security policy
• security risk management policy
• national security arrangements and coordination
• public-private partnerships in security
  

Athol's qualifications include a Bachelor of Engineering, GradDip Soviet Studies, and Masters of Public Policy.

His is also the author of the 180 page report Engineering a Safer Australia: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and the Built Environment, which is the only public report on Australia's critical infrastructure protection efforts.

He is the editor of the National Security Practice Notes .

Tel: 02 6161 5143
Mob: 0402 419 583
Email: athol.yates@homelandsecurity.org.au
Web: www.homelandsecurity.org.au

Trevor Thomas
Trevor J Thomas holds a degree in Economics from the Australian National University, and a post-Graduate Diploma in Business Practice from the Canberra University. Over the course of an extensive career in industry and trade policy consulting, Trevor has been accredited with AusIndustry to deliver business planning and export marketing services, and the Institute of Management Consultants as a Chartered Management Consultant (CMC).

He began his career working for the United States Embassy in Canberra, developing economic and political assessments of Australian national and business affairs, and preparing briefs for the U.S. State Department in Washington. He subsequently joined the management team of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, where he was responsible for monitoring Federal Government affairs and researching/developing Chamber business policy.

In 1997 he consolidated a number of existing defence publications to create 'Australian Defence Business Review' (ADBR) magazine and the weekly DIAR.com e-Newsletter, which quickly established themselves as 'essential reading' for all those involved in defence policy/procurement decision making.

ADBR magazine was further complimented in 2003 with 'ADBR-Entrepreneur' (ADBR-E), a monthly e-Newsletter looking in detail at the impact for business of reforms being progressed to the military capability definition and procurement infrastructure arising out of the Government's adoption of the Kinnaird report.

Trevor retains an active personal interest in the synthesis of development programs for Australian industry, and regularly contributes to public discussion of industry issues, drawing on his extensive practical experience in terms of the inter-relationship of Government economic, political and industry policies, and their application and effect on the affairs of the private sector.

Tel: 02 6260 4855
Email: busicom@ozemail.com.au
Web: www.adbr.com.au