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Mick Ryan
Major General (retired)Mick Ryan is a highly skilled leader and strategist with more than three decades of experience working in senior roles in the Australian military and beyond. He spent 35 years in the Australian
Army and had the honour of commanding soldiers at multiple levels. His operational service includes
deployments to East Timor, Iraq, and southern Afghanistan, and he also served as a strategist on the
United States Joint Staff in the Pentagon. Mick is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force School
of Languages, a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff
College, and a graduate of the USMC School of Advanced Warfighting. In 2012, he graduated with
distinction from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.
Mick is also an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC,
and a non-resident fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. In 2008 he was made a Member of the
Order of Australia for distinguished leadership of the Australian 1st Reconstruction Task Force in
Afghanistan.
Mick's work reaches a global audience, and he is a recognised expert in leadership, institutional
strategy, technology, organisational adaptation and change management, institutional reform, as
well as personnel development. A prolific writer and speaker, Mick's expertise in thinking about and
preparing for the future is sought after by institutions in Australia, the United States and beyond.
Since retiring from the Australian Army in February 2022, Mick has been a strategy consultant, and a
columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC Australia.