Dr Greta Nabbs-Keller

Dr Greta Nabbs-Keller is Associate Director Defence, Space and National Security, based in the Research and Innovation portfolio at The University of Queensland (UQ).

She is also Program Director of the Australian Program Office for Advanced Hypersonics (APOAH).

In her current role, Greta is responsible for building UQ's research partnerships and profile in the defence, space and national security sectors. This involves engagement with a range of partner organisations, including Commonwealth, State and Local Government agencies, defence primes, SMEs, universities, peak bodies and international research entities.

As Program Director of the APOAH, she leverages UQ’s world-leading expertise in hypersonics science and enabling technologies to support sovereign capability.

Greta has broad experience working across the national security bureaucracy and has worked previously for the Australian Defence Organisation in international and strategic policy formulation, intelligence analysis, linguist reporting and in overseas representative roles.

Her career experience also includes significant project management and consulting experience in the defence, foreign policy and international development sectors, the latter where she has led teams in project design, bidding and delivery of capacity building programs funded by DFAT, the UN and other international donor agencies.

In addition to advancing UQ’s research, training, workforce pipeline and policy engagement with Defence, Greta contributes her Indonesian security and foreign policy expertise to academic journals, PhD supervision, policy processes, strategic dialogues, thinktanks, media outlets and executive education programs.

Her ongoing research and policy engagement on Indo-Pacific strategic issues is supported by research affiliations with UQ Centre for Policy Futures and Griffith Asia Institute.