Brendan Walker-Munro

Dr Brendan Walker-Munro is a Senior Lecturer (Law) with the Faculty of Business, Law & the Arts at Southern Cross University. Brendan's focus is on "research security", the use of law and policy to protect university research from national security threats such as espionage, foreign interference, hacking, and technology transfer. He also researches other aspects at the intersection of national security law and higher education, such as research funding, privacy, and digital security.

Before academia, Brendan worked in investigation and law enforcement roles across diverse government agencies over fifteen years, including the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Fair Work Building & Construction, the NSW and Queensland Offices of Liquor and Gaming, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Prior to joining Southern Cross, Brendan was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland's Law and the Future of War Research Group. Brendan is admitted to practise law in the Supreme Court of Queensland and also holds appointment as a Member of the Queensland Councillor Conduct Tribunal, the Disciplinary Panel of CPA Australia, and is a Senior Research Fellow of the Social Cyber Institute. He has also been appointed as an Expert Associate (Adjunct) at the National Security College at Australian National University, Canberra.

Brendan has been awarded a Bachelor of Biomedical Science and Molecular Biology from Murdoch University, a Bachelor of Neuroscience (Honours) from the University of Western Australia, a Juris Doctor with Distinction from the University of Southern Queensland and a PhD from Swinburne University.