About Mark

Mark Duckworth PSM is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University working in the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS). Before taking up this appointment in 2019 he had more than 30 years’ experience in the Victorian and New South Wales public sectors. He held many senior executive roles including as Executive Director of Governance, Security and Intergovernmental Relations, and as Chief Resilience Officer in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet. In the 2007 Australia Day Honours he was awarded the Public Service Medal for his work in “the development of the national counter-terrorism and policy arrangements”. He was member of the Australia and New Zealand Counter Terrorism Committee for thirteen years, and the inaugural co-chair of the ANZCTC Countering Violent Extremism sub-committee.