He is both a researcher and practitioner of long standing in the fields of business continuity management, critical incident management, risk and security. As a senior executive he has worked with a range of public and private sector organisations in Australia, Europe, S.E. Asia, Africa and North America.

This has included emergency services, military and security organisations, central government, regulators and major corporates, including the international aviation sector. Carl’s career started off in research into infectious diseases, particularly into the pathogenicity and control of diseases such as influenza and insect borne infections.

He has been appointed at various times as an adviser on biosecurity issues to governments in the Peoples’ Republic of China, Papua New Guinea, Australia, UK and the United Nations.

Carl is a member of the Advisory Panel for Australia’s National Centre for Security Standards, and a member of the joint New Zealand and Australian Standard’s Committee for Risk Management (OB7). He also chairs a number of national working parties in the areas of security risk and critical incident management.

Internationally he is a member of the US NFPA TC 1600 and heads the Australian delegation to the International Standards Organisation Technical Committee 223 Societal Security, where he is also the Convenor of the working group responsible for drafting standards on the fundamentals of societal security.

He has over 70 publications, including as a principal or contributing author to a number of national and international standards in risk management, business continuity, security, resilience and fraud.