Lieutenant van Lieshout joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1985 completing category training as a Signalman in 1986 before aligning as a Communications Information Systems (CIS) sailor in 1999. He achieved the rank of Warrant Officer in 2012, and commissioned as an officer in 2020.
Ph.D. Carlos Barrera Franco is currently a professor and researcher at the Mexican Institute for Strategic Studies in National Security and Defense (IMEESDN) and a member of the Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research (SHOC) – Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He attained this doctoral degree in War studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Manuel Carranza is an independent researcher focused on defense policy and a member of the Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research (SHOC) – Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).