Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor is the head of the Statecraft & Intelligence Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) where his research focuses on emergent and emerging issues facing intelligence services internationally and in Australia, the place of intelligence agencies in democracies, and role of intelligence in the conduct of statecraft.

Chris’ more than twenty years as a senior national security official in the Australian Government included leadership of functions such as intelligence policy and coordination; protective security; enterprise capability; governance and oversight; and strategic futures.

In 2019-2020 Chris was a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs.