Shelly Mills is the Cyber Security Improvements Program Manager at the University of Queensland, a Group of Eight university.

Shelly was previously an executive committee member, and then the vice-chair, of AISA’s Queensland branch. She has been working in cyber security and data governance at an academic institution for the past four years, where her roles spanned project management, change management, business analyst and Data Strategy and Governance Team Leader.

Shelly brings a non-traditional background, with university qualifications in Ecology and Public Relations, demonstrating the alternate pathways and options for career change that can be taken to enter the field of cyber security.