{"id":8867,"date":"2024-07-30T04:18:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2024\/?post_type=our_team&#038;p=8867"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T02:07:16","slug":"grant-mckay","status":"publish","type":"our_team","link":"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2024\/our_team\/grant-mckay\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant McKay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grant James McKay is Sydney Water\u2019s Head of Protective Security &amp; Emergency Management, a position he has held for over four years. He has been a security and risk professional for over 40 years, which has given him the opportunity of working throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Sydney Water, Grant provided security consulting services in Asia and generalist consulting services to the mining and resources sector in Australia. The bulk of his career however has been in senior roles in commercial aviation during which, for over a decade, he was responsible for the security of Qantas\u2019 operations outside of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Grant\u2019s career path has been shaped by his preference for work diversity. He has played a senior role in the investigation of political and public sector corruption in NSW, been an officer in a RAAF and, at the very beginning, was in the AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Grant has a degree in science from the UNSW and postgraduate degrees in business administration and strategic studies from other universities. Grant has also been a visiting fellow in the ANU\u2019s faculty of political economy where he lectured on corruption in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>Grant lives in the Blue Mountains and enjoys bush walking, and the on-going renovation and upkeep of his 19th century house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Protective Security &#038; Emergency Management <strong>Sydney Water<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8868,"template":"","meta":{"content-type":""},"class_list":["post-8867","our_team","type-our_team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v23.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grant McKay - PSG Conference 2024<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2024\/our_team\/grant-mckay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grant McKay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Head of Protective Security &amp; Emergency Management Sydney Water\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2024\/our_team\/grant-mckay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"PSG Conference 2024\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PSGConferenceAU\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-30T02:07:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grant-McKay_Greyscale.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1508\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1492\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@psgconference\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2024\/our_team\/grant-mckay\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2024\/our_team\/grant-mckay\/\",\"name\":\"Grant McKay - 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