In these times of budget austerity, imagine if someone came up with a proposal that could potentially save the Defence budget tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars from its bottom line without impacting on overall capability.
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Tim Mayfield works as the Executive Officer to the Chancellor of the ANU, Professor Gareth Evans AC QC. He recently served as Deputy Director for the ANU’s Crawford Australian Leadership Forum. Tim has previously worked at The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department of Defence. He was also an Officer in the Australian Army Reserve for eight years.
He has a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies from the ANU.