Owen Cooper is a Senior Advisor in the Futures Hub at the National Security College at ANU. He is a leading Australian expert in public-sector strategic foresight and intelligence practice. Owen has led foresight workshops and tabletop exercises across Australia, as well as in Asia and the United States, and has trained hundreds of public servants in futures thinking, structured analysis and intelligence tradecraft. 

Before joining NSC, Owen spent 14 years in strategic intelligence analysis and tradecraft roles at the Department of Defence. He led methodology advice and support to the 2020 Defence Strategic Update and deployed to Timor-Leste in 2010 in support of peacekeeping operations. 

Owen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from UTS, a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in history from the University of Sydney, a Master of Arts in Strategy and Management from UNSW and a Certificate in Intelligence Studies from the US National Intelligence University. Owen completed the Oxford Scenario Programme at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK in 2023.