BEC Shrimpton

Bec Shrimpton is Director of Defence Strategy and National Security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

She was previously responsible for convening the Sydney Dialogue, Australia’s premier policy summit for critical, emerging, cyber and space technology.

Ms. Shrimpton has over 20 years of experience in policy, operational and corporate roles in the Australian Department of Defence and in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

She has served as senior adviser Major Powers to Australia’s Foreign Minister and led trade and investment in the defence and space sectors in the Australian Trade and Investment Commission. For the last decade, Ms. Shrimpton has specialized in space policy, deterrence and advanced capabilities, including the role of commercial dual use technologies and innovation in national security.

She has provided high level policy advice to the Australian Government on Australia’s relations with the US, China, Five Eyes, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific, and on policy issues related to terrorism, insurgency, cyber, space, missile defence, nuclear and strategic deterrence and critical technologies. From 2015 to 2017 she was Counsellor Defence Strategic Policy in the Australian Embassy in Washington.

Ms. Shrimpton is a Fellow of the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Program (2017) at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC and an Alumni of the Munich Young Leaders Forum (2015). She is an Alumni of the Australian War College (2013 Defence and Strategic Studies Course) and is a Fellow of the College.

She has a Masters of Strategic Studies (with Honors) from the Australian National University and a Masters of Strategic Studies from Deakin University.