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Mark Duckworth PSM
Mark Duckworth PSM FIPAA (Vic) is the Co-Director of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS), Senior Research Fellow at the Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and Senior Political Advisor to the Faculty of Health at Deakin University. His current research focus is on building resilience to social harms, disaster resilience, co-design and strategies for trust building between government and communities.
Before joining Deakin University in 2019 he had more than 30 years’ experience in the Victorian and New South Wales public sectors leading significant policy and legislative reform initiatives on community resilience, intergovernmental relations, multicultural affairs, public administration, plain legal language, veterans’ affairs, countering violent extremism, counter terrorism, and emergency management.
Mark is currently a Member of the Victorian Government Expert Advisory Committee on Countering Violent Extremism.
Mark has held many senior executive roles in government including as Executive Director of Governance, Security, and Intergovernmental Relations and as Chief Resilience Officer in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet. He previously worked at the New South Wales Cabinet Office, The University of Sydney Law School and the Victorian Law Reform Commission.
He was Chair of Victoria’s State Crisis and Resilience Council’s Risk and Resilience subcommittee (2013-19); Chair, Victorian Government Expert Reference Group for the Research Institute on Social Cohesion (2015-18); and a Member of Victoria’s Social Cohesion and Community Resilience Taskforce (2016-2018).
He was member of the Australia and New Zealand Counter Terrorism Committee (ANZCTC) from 2002-15. He led the establishment of the ANZCTC Countering Violent Extremism sub-committee (CVESC) of which he was the inaugural co-chair from 2008-2015.
As a member of the National Emergency Management Committee, Mark co-chaired the group that drafted the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience, endorsed by the Council of Australian Governments in February 2011.
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