Matt Dyer
Executive Manager
,
Queensland Fire Department
Matt Dyer has two decades’ experience in disaster management in Queensland, making significant contributions to disaster research, policy and practice, and has guided disaster response through events that impacted regional Queensland communities, receiving the National Emergency Medal in recognition of his service and commitment to community safety. Matt grew up on Cape York and remembers fondly the heat, humidity, sound and smell of an impending monsoon: his work today includes understanding current and future disaster risk, to build resilience in a climate-challenged world. Matt is Executive Manager of the Hazard and Risk Unit at the Queensland Fire Department.