Brendan Moon AM is a highly experienced leader in the Emergency Management sector and has extensive expertise across disaster response, recovery, preparedness and risk reduction.

Brendan was appointed as the first Coordinator-General of the National Emergency Management Agency in October 2022 to establish an all-hazards, end-to-end agency to lead and coordinate Australian Government support for emergency management across Australia.

Prior to this national role, he spent 10 years with the Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA), starting as the General Manager, Operations in 2011 until his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2016. While with QRA, Brendan led recovery operations and state-wide reconstruction and recovery efforts for all significant natural disasters in Queensland since late 2015 until 2022.

Brendan is a regular contributor to national and international dialogues on disaster risk and resilience; addressing forums including the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction’s Asian Ministerial Conference, Pacific Regional Disaster Managers and the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.

Bhiamie Williamson is a Euahlayi man from north-west New South Wales. He has studied and worked with Indigenous communities throughout Australia, Canada and the United States, and has a history in advising and researching in the disaster resilience sector. He has been widely published, writing about the unique impacts of disasters on Indigenous peoples.