He has worked in disaster management education and research for the past 25 years, joint author of the Australian Standard on Business Continuity AS/NZS 5050 and a technical expert to two ISO working groups. Michael has presented to conferences and run workshops in Thailand, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Philippines, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Italy, China, South Africa, England and Canada and is an advisory board member for a range of organisations and projects including the Resilience Expert Advisory Group and SIMTEC (Canada)