About
Steven Brandon
PhD candidate at Queensland University of Technology studying development finance architecture across Business/Law and Built Environment. Former 6RAR Infantry veteran (Australian Army). Dual Australian-Barbadian citizenship.
Creator of the Law of Symbiotic Resilience (LSR), the Sovereign Resilience Derivative (SRD), and the CASCADE monitoring platform. Research programme spans 10 papers across development finance, climate adaptation, strategic intelligence, and consciousness mathematics.
The PhD
Seven-dissertation framework demonstrating that development systems designed for mutual benefit succeed at 27.8× the rate of extractive systems. Validated across 31,737 World Bank projects, 214 countries, 12 sectors, 7 regions, and 4 decades with zero exceptions.