Bill Nicol is an international journalist, author and consultant. He helped lead Indonesia's successful recovery from the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004, the world's largest recorded natural disaster. An independent advisor, he has consulted to government and industry across a range of fields including national security, emergency management and organizational governance. He has also been an investigative journalist, current affairs reporter and political correspondent with a background in print, radio and television. He is the author of "Timor: The Stillborn Nation" (1978), later updat...