Mr Michael Webster is a practising lawyer, former military officer, and geolegal strategist.
Mr Webster was educated at Avondale University, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, and the University of New South Wales. Mr Webster graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, through the Australian Army Reserve commissioning scheme as a signals officer.
Mr Webster has degrees in business, education, history, and law. Mr Webster’s honours thesis was a legal history of military conscription in Australia. Mr Webster is currently undertaking further postgraduate studies in the National Security College at the Australian National University.
Mr Webster spent over twenty years in the Australian Regular Army as a legal officer. He had warlike and non-warlike operational service in Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific. Mr Webster has considerable experience in complex advisings, crisis and operational military planning, and policy formulation.
Mr Webster’s military expertise was in legal warfare, synthesising legal regimes, and operational legal framework design. Mr Webster advised on, and conducted, sensitive military inquiries and investigations into operational incidents and criminal allegations. Mr Webster also instructed on a range of military topics.
Mr Webster was an aid worker and high school teacher in his earlier careers. He was a contracted field officer for over a year with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during the Liberian Civil War. Currently, Mr Webster also practises privately in public and international law. His interests include legal warfare.
Mr Webster’s experience and skills provide clients with problem-scoping and planning expertise, geolegal and strategy perspectives, and legal research. Mr Webster provides the conceptual and organising framework for deconstructing problems and practical ways for clients to solve them.