Philip Alpers is director of programmes and co-founder of the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction, designer of ArmsTracker, and a faculty member at the University of Sydney School of Public Health. He is also founding director of GunPolicy.org.

​A former senior fellow at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Alpers is a widely published policy analyst in the effects of armed violence and firearm regulation on public health and human rights. Accredited to the United Nations small arms Programme of Action since 2001, he participates in UN firearm-related processes, and designs and installs arms and ammunition control systems for state agencies across Africa and the Pacific. ​