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Bhiamie Williamson
Board Director
Bhiamie Williamson is a Euahlayi man from north-west New South Wales with familial ties to north-west Queensland.
Bhiamie Williamson is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University in the School of Geography. Bhiamie leads National Indigenous Disaster Resilience, a research program which seeks to understand and quantify the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people before, during, and after major hazard events.
Bhiamie has a Masters of Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and a Continuing Education Certificate from the Indigenous Governance Program at the University of Arizona in the United States.
In 2025 Bhiamie graduated with a PhD from the Australian National University. His thesis examines the histories and contemporary identities of Indigenous men and masculinities in Australia.
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