Conrad Townson
Principal Advisor Child Exploitation
Project Paradigm, IFYS
Conrad's career as a practitioner, manager and advisor has for the past two decades focused heavily on the themes of child exploitation and trafficking, harmful sexual behaviour, missing children and therapeutic care.
Conrad is the Principal Advisor on Child Sexual Exploitation for IFYS where he oversees Project Paradigm, a national program aimed at increasing the capacity of professionals and communities across Australia to better understand and respond to child exploitation.
Alongside this he sits on the board of Community Work Australia, is a member of the National Working Group on Responses to Victims of Child Sexual Abuse Material and occasional peer reviewer for the Journal of Sexual Aggression. Conrad historically was appointed to the Stakeholder Advisory Board for the Australian Age Assurance Technology Trial and the Expert Advisory Panel for the Queensland Government's Review of System Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Most recently, Conrad has been invited to sit on the Queensland Health Child Sexual Abuse Service External Advisory Group.