LTGEN Michelle McGuinness is Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator, appointed in February 2024. She has held senior appointments across intelligence, interagency and international engagement roles including multiple appointments within the U.S., most recently as Australia’s first Deputy Director for Commonwealth Integration at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Other senior appointments include Chief of Staff to the Chief of the Defence Force and Director General, Counter-proliferation and Terrorism at the Defence Intelligence Organisation. LTGEN McGuinness graduated from UNSW Canberra with a Bachelor of Arts (Politics and Bahasa Indonesian) in 1996 and a Master of Arts (Strategy and Policy) in 2009. She has served at the ADFA campus as the operations officer in 2008 and had the privilege to return as the Commanding Officer and Chief Instructor between 2014–2015. In 2018, LTGEN McGuinness was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross.