David Cliff has over 35 years in the resources sector in Australia and overseas in a number of senior positions within government, industry and university. His experience spans both research and consulting settings as the manager of both the Occupational Hygiene Environment and Chemistry Centre and the Mining Research Centre at SIMTARS, Occupational Health and Safety Advisor to the Queensland Resources Council and Professor of Risk and Knowledge Transfer and Professor of OHS in Mining at the University of Queensland. David has provided OHS advice over the past thirty five years in Australia, USA, PNG, Mongolia, South Africa, Ghana, The Philippines, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Indonesia and Turkey particularly in the areas of OHS risk management, principal hazard management, governance and education and training. He has provided this specialist support to governments and companies.

With 30+ years experience in technical, managerial and leadership roles Marcus partners with Government and organisations to enable the development of WHS performance by providing occupational hygiene, health and safety, enterprise risk, leadership advice and know-how. As an academic Marcus provide his students with practical learning materials, often based on my experiences, research and partnerships with industry. He says he is privileged to supervise some of the smartest HSE people around in their PhD's and Masters research projects, as well as a series of industry funded projects, write and teach a variety of Units, and lead the post graduate OHS program at ECU. In July 2023 Marcus was appointed as Deputy Director of the Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety Centre, in which he is respnsible for research and education to develop the next generation of OHS leaders, and research to manage injury and incident risk.