Dr Gary Waters is a Distinguished Fellow with the Social Cyber Institute. Gary served for just over 33 years in the Royal Australian Air Force (retiring early as an Air Commodore); served as a senior public servant in Defence for a further four years; and worked in the private sector as Head of Strategy for Jacobs Australia for seven years. He retired in 2013 and now works on a casual basis as an independent strategy consultant. He has written over twenty books or papers on diverse topics, including aerospace; logistics; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; information superiority; cyber security; and cyber warfare. Gary continues to pursue his interests in strategy and high-level policy, and in emergent and disruptive technologies, including those associated with digital transformation and cyber security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (graduating with majors in accounting and economics); a graduate of the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force Staff College; a graduate of the University of New South Wales, with an MA (Hons) in history; a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors; and a graduate of the Australian National University with a PhD in political science and international relations. He is currently a founding director (since 2018) of the Integrated Institute for Economic Research – Australia. He is also the strategic advisor (since 2022) to the CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Critical Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Centre – Australia.