Friday, 12 August, 2022 - 14:07
Connelly leads new generation at RSL WA
Supporting veterans to start businesses and join the workforce are top priorities for Vince Connelly in his new role as RSL WA chief executive.
Matt Moran
Head of Strategy & Government Relations / Luerssen Australia
Matt Moran is an Australian Army Afghanistan veteran and a Walkley Award winner.
Mr Moran was deployed to Afghanistan as a public affairs officer in 2009 and East Timor in 2007. He was a federal political reporter for Network Ten from 2011 to 2015, and joined Ten's Perth newsroom in 2004 and before starting in television as a rural reporter with the ABC in Esperance. He won numerous journalism accolades including a Walkley Award, the Paul Lyneham Award, and two UN Association of Australia Media Awards. Mr Moran was shortlisted for the 2011 Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award, and is a Logie finalist. He became a Walkley Award judge in 2012.
Mr Moran left Network Ten in 2015 and joined former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s office as a media advisor. After the 2016 federal election, he joined the Minister for Defence Industry’s office as a policy advisor, was promoted to senior advisor in 2017, and worked on Defence’s most complex and nationally sensitive projects. In August 2018, he became a senior advisor to the Minister for Defence. After the 2019 federal election, Mr Moran was appointed an executive director of Defence West for over 2 years.
Mr Moran has been the head of strategy and government relations at Luerssen Australia since August 2021, a Visiting Fellow at the UWA Defence and Security Institute, and a board member of RSL WA.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University, and is pursuing a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Australia.
