Detective Superintendent David Cowan

David is the President of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Evidence Based Policing (ANZSEBP), which comprises of senior police from every police agency in Australia (approximately 4000 members). Cowan holds a Masters of Criminology from the University of Cambridge and has completed the Senior Leaders in Government Program at Harvard. In 2022, he completed a prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship on EBP globally.  He has received several awards including:

-          2019 Distinguished Police Scientist (ANZSEBP)

-          2023 Evidence Based Policing Hall of Fame (US, Centre for Evidence Based Crime Policy)

-          2023 he received the Australian Institute of Criminology Gold award for violence prevention

-          2024 Sir Robert Peel Medal (UK, University of Cambridge)

-          2025 inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.