Duncan McNab


Senior Crisis Communications and Reputation Management Advisor

Duncan McNab is a Senior Media and Government Affairs Advisor at Wilkinson Group. His career spans three complementary fields: policing, investigative journalism, and strategic communications. As a result, he brings a rare depth of institutional knowledge to every brief.

At Wilkinson Group, Duncan advises Australian organisations on crisis communications, litigation communications, and regulatory affairs. He also guides clients through government relations and commissions of inquiry. His experience is unusually broad. For example, he has served as director of communications to NSW Government ministers. In addition, he has managed media and public affairs for major regulatory bodies.

Duncan is an award-winning investigative journalist, television producer, and documentary maker. He is also the author of thirteen books, published by major houses in Australia, the United Kingdom, and North America. Furthermore, he is a regular media commentator on law and order. This gives him an instinct for how journalists think and what they need. It also helps organisations protect their reputation when a story breaks.

Before his communications career, Duncan served as a detective in the New South Wales Police Force. There, he specialised in anti-corruption and fraud. Later, he worked as an investigator and intelligence consultant on major litigation matters. Therefore, he understands crime, media, and government from the inside.

This three track background gives Duncan a genuinely rare perspective. He knows how regulators investigate, how journalists pursue a story, and how governments respond under pressure. So when an organisation faces a crisis, a regulatory inquiry, or sustained media scrutiny, his experience is hard to match anywhere in Australia. For issues management and crisis communications, that blend of skills is a real advantage.