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Matt Moran is the Chief Executive Officer of Master Builders Western Australia, a Board Member of RSL WA and a Non-Executive Director of Reddifund. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Practice with the UWA Defence and Security Institute.

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He has held senior leadership roles including Head of Strategy and Government Relations at Luerssen Australia and was the inaugural Executive Director of Defence West.

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An Australian Army veteran, Matt served as a public affairs officer in East Timor and Afghanistan.

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He worked as a federal political reporter with Network Ten from 2011 to 2015, earning national recognition for his journalism. His awards include a Walkley Award, the Paul Lyneham Award and two UN Association of Australia Media Awards. Matt was shortlisted for the 2011 Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award and was also a Logie finalist.

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In 2015, Matt joined the office of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as a media adviser. After the 2016 federal election, he moved into the Minister for Defence Industry’s office as a policy adviser and was promoted to senior adviser in 2017, working on Defence’s most complex projects. In 2018, he was appointed as a senior adviser to the Minister for Defence.

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He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University and is completing a Master of Business Administration at the University of Western Australia.