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Nicola Hinder PSM was appointed as Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Department of Parliamentary Services in April 2025.<\/p>\n

A career public servant, Nicola has held multiple Senior Executive roles, including as A\/Deputy Secretary (multiple roles), A\/Agency Head and Australian Delegation Head to several bilateral and multilateral international organisations. Nicola has extensive experience in service delivery operations, international trade negotiations, regulatory stewardship, corporate operations and digital design and delivery. Nicola has served the Australian Government internationally completing a placement in India and a posting to the European Union.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Nicola was appointed as a Senior APS Reviewer joining the senior review team to complete a Capability Review for Services Australia under the Australian Public Service Commission\u2019s Capability Review framework.<\/p>\n

In 2019 Nicola was awarded the Australian Public Service medal for services to Biosecurity and Trade. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is completing her Masters in Leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deputy Secretary & Chief Operating Officer, Department of Parliamentary Services<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9717,"template":"","meta":{"content-type":""},"class_list":["post-9716","our_team","type-our_team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nNicola Hinder PSM - PSG Conference 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Protective Security and Government (PSG) Conference 2025 marks the 8th annual gathering of leaders in protective security, risk management, governance, and national resilience.\" \/>\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\/2025\/our_team\/nicola-hinder-psm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nicola Hinder PSM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Protective Security and Government (PSG) Conference 2025 marks the 8th annual gathering of leaders in protective security, risk management, governance, and national resilience.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2025\/our_team\/nicola-hinder-psm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"PSG Conference 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PSGConferenceAU\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-09T04:17:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nicola-Hinder.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"582\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"582\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2025\/our_team\/nicola-hinder-psm\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/psgconference.com\/2025\/our_team\/nicola-hinder-psm\/\",\"name\":\"Nicola Hinder PSM - 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