Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Johnson is an infantry officer and has served as a platoon commander, company commander and commanding officer in The Royal Australian Regiment. He has deployed to Timor-Leste and Afghanistan and has held a range of regimental, instructional, staff and representational appointments in the ADF and with coalition partners.
Claire Pearson has served in a variety of ISR roles in the Air and Joint domains. With a Joint Operations bias, she has deployed as an embed officer in US 10th Mountain Light Infantry Division (Kandahar, Afghanistan), an embed in ISAF HQ (Kabul, Afghanistan), a UN Peacekeeper in UNMISS (Bor, South Sudan), and to the Middle East. Claire has been posted to numerous staff roles in HQJOC and JCG, served as a MA, Sub-unit Commander, and XO. As a qualified military Gender Advisor, she is a passionate advocate of applying a gendered perspective to vulnerable perso