David Hopkins

David Hopkins is Director and Head of Learning at the Institute for Intelligence Professionalisation (IIP), leading design of an accredited intelligence training continuum for Australia. He is a retired RAAF Intelligence Officer with over twenty-five years of service: deploying unmanned aerial systems with Australian Special Forces, delivering strategic all-source analysis at the Defence Intelligence Organisation, and leading the team that built Defence's contemporary intelligence training continuum. He continues to serve as a reservist. His work now centres on teaching analysts to build assessments decision-makers can actually use.