“I’m inquisitive and I like to find out how things work. I mean, how does a nuclear reactor work? It’s phenomenal when you think about it. I got to the point where I thought, why not challenge myself and actually find out?”

I’m a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers. I lead consulting teams helping Federal Government departments with big challenges like IT strategy, organisational changes or delivery capability. Big, chunky transformational problems.

My Masters isn’t directly related to my work; it’s more about being challenged and studying something I’m interested in. But nuclear knowledge, related to mining, storage and defence for example, is going to be more and more in demand in Australia over the next five to twenty years, and it’s important to have people who can understand the concepts and communicate them.

The program is structured to cater to people from all sorts of backgrounds, whether they’re professionals like me, or from government departments, or they want to be a nuclear physicist. It covers the whole spectrum from practical expertise to pure theory.”