MrMark 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 Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and Senior Political Advisor to the Faculty of Health at Deakin University.

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 intergovernmental relations, multicultural affairs, veterans’ affairs, public administration, countering violent extremism, counter terrorism, emergency management and community resilience.

After 9/11 he played a key role in “the development of the national counter-terrorism and policy arrangements” for which he was awarded the Public Service Medal. 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.

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 and as Executive Director of the Emergency Management
Division in the Victorian Department of Economic Development Jobs Transport and Resources.

Mark 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 previously worked at the NSW Cabinet Office, the Sydney University Law School and the Victorian Law Reform Commission. In 2022 he was appointed as a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA).

Mark was also a Councillor, City of Melbourne from 1988-93 and Chair of the Planning, Works, and Services Committee: 1990-91 and the City Planning and Development Committee: 1991-92. Trustee, Royal Exhibition Buildings (Melbourne): 1988-94.

Mark is a graduate in history (MA) and law (LLB) from the University of Melbourne and previously worked at the NSW Cabinet Office, the Law Reform Commission of Victoria and the University of Sydney Law School.