Michael is currently the Director Energy Regulation in Regulation and Compliance Division in the Department of Energy and Mining of South Australia. He holds a degree in Chemical. He has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry covering many aspects of the industry including reservoir engineering, tight gas, EOR, drilling and well operations, pipelines and facility engineering and process safety management.

Michael has developed the South Australian safety and environmental legislation for the oil and gas industry and the state's hydrogen safety and renewable energy legislation. 
 

Michael is the South Australian government representative on the many standards committees including chair of the Australian mirror committee for the International Standards Organisation (ISO) committee on standards for Carbon Capture and Storage where he is active on international working groups for CO2 pipelines, storage, flow assurance, monitoring and verification and shipping. 
 

He is an adjunct lecturer in Process Safety and Risk Management in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide. 
 

He is a Fellow Chartered Engineer with IChemE and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers