Professor Michael Salter is the Scientia Professor of Criminology at the University of New South Wales where he studies child sexual exploitation, gender-based violence and complex trauma. His published work includes the books Organised Sexual Abuse (2013, Routledge) and Crime, Justice and Social Media (2017, Routledge) and over fifty papers in international journals and edited collections.

Professor Salter is the president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and the chair of the board of the Grace Tame Foundation.  He is a member of the advisory groups of the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation, the eSafety Commissioner, the Advisory Group of White Ribbon Australia, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and the National Plan To Prevent Violence Against Women and Their Children. Professor Salter is a key advisor to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection where he has undertaken a range of projects on strategic responses to child sexual exploitation.