Matthew is the Principal of Curtis Incorporated Pty Ltd, a multi-disciplinary strategic advisory consultancy. Following 20 years in the Australian Foreign Service, Matthew left the public sector, and for the past 25 years has consulted in strategic and national security, governance and risk, emergency management and business continuity management. In this capacity he has had a range of business roles, from partner/director of a SME, senior management in global consulting firms and Principal of his own company.

Matthew has led and worked in diplomacy, national security, policy development and implementation, legal and litigation matters, industry regulation and negotiation. His consulting draws on high-level relationship management skills founded on an extensive body of lived experience. He has directed and undertaken a great many complex consulting engagements in the public and private sectors, including:

• National security review – national counter-terrorism arrangements, security and risk of various national programs, critical infrastructure security and transport security
• Security and emergency management governance and risk management at national, jurisdictional and enterprise levels
• Enterprise protective security framework formulation, governance and implementation
• Intelligence capability development.

Appointments and qualifications

• National and international standards
  • A representative of Australia on ISO/TC 292 Security and Resilience and its protective security standards development body, Working Group 6, Protective Security
  • In this capacity, project leader and lead author of, ISO 22340 Security and resilience — Protective security — Guidelines for an enterprise protective security architecture and framework, the first international, and soon to be published, standard on this vitally important matter
  • Member, Standards Australia Committee MB-025: Security and Resilience, which is responsible for security-related national standards development, and which mirrors in Australia the work of ISO/TC 292, Security and Resilience.
• Boards
  • Former board member, Security Professionals Australasia and Chair, Australasian Council of Security Professionals
  • Member, Australian Outward Bound Foundation
• Bachelor’s and post-graduate Honours degrees in Chinese history, politics and language.