Hamish is the First Assistant Secretary of Cyber, Digital and Technology Policy in the Australian Department of Home Affairs.

In this role, he leads Australia’s cybersecurity and cybercrime policy, online harms policy including countering terrorism and child exploitation, encryption policy as well as technology security policy.

Immediately prior to this, he was the First Assistant Secretary of National Security and Law Enforcement Policy in the Department of Home Affairs where he delivered Australia’s first ever modern slavery act, surveillance, investigatory powers and lawful access reforms, as well as hardening of Australia’s counter money laundering, illicit firearms, terrorist financing and child exploitation regimes.