Mike Norris is the Director of the ASPI Professional Development Centre. He leads a team of permanent and part time staff and ASPI fellows who design, develop and deliver Professional Development Programs for Defence and other departments and agencies at the Commonwealth and State and Territory level. Mike and the ASPI-PD team, work with client agencies to develop new policy, conduct strategic planning and test those plans and policies through exercises and red teaming.

• Director of Intelligence (J2) at Australian Theatre Headquarters
• Head of the Army Intelligence Corps
• Directing Staff at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies (then the Australian Defence College)
• Defence Consul in Honolulu (accredited to US Pacific Command)
• Army Director of Security
• Intelligence & Security Instructor in the United Kingdom