Dr Mathew Hancock completed his PhD with MISHC on the development of risk management maturity models for the management of communicable diseases in the Papua New Guinean mining industry — a topic reflecting his enduring interest in the building capability to optimise management of complex safety and health challenges. Mathew contributes to postgraduate teaching and mentoring and participates in collaborative research efforts to advance the science and application of risk management in the resources sector.
With over 20 years of industry experience, Mathew has held senior enterprise risk and HSE leadership roles across global resources and infrastructure organisations, including Rio Tinto, the Downer Group, and Mirvac. His work has focused on designing and embedding risk and control frameworks and systems, strengthening systems of corporate governance and assurance and building analytical tools and capabilities.
Currently Chief Risk Modeller at Sirius-beta Labs, Mathew is focusing on development of situated reasoning technology — harnessing applied category theory, situation theory and patented situated reasoning methods in concert with generative AI, systems of logic and knowledge graphs to model risk in dynamic, open-world environments. This work builds on foundational research from the US intelligence community and is being adapted to support complex decision-making in a variety of industries including mining and defence.