Harley Dennett
Editor
Harley Dennett is editor at The Mandarin based in Canberra. He's held communications roles in the New South Wales public sector and Defence, and been a staff reporter for newspapers in Sydney and Washington DC.
Our Team
Anthony Bergin
Anthony Bergin is deputy director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Andrew Campbell
Former head of Land & Water Australia, and senior executive with Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. Andrew Campbell is currently director of the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL) and director of the Centre for Renewable Energy at Charles Darwin University.
Ahmed Fahour
Ahmed Fahour is the managing director and chief executive officer of Australia Post. He was formerly an executive at NAB, Citigroup and a partner at the Boston Consulting Group.
Adam Fennessy
Adam Fennessy is secretary of the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) and Victorian Male Champion of Change.
Adam Graycar
Adam Graycar is a professor in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Flinders University, and previously professor of public policy at Australian National University and director of the Transnational Research Institute on Corruption (TRIC). Adam also has 22 years of senior executive experience in public services, including as head of the South Australian Cabinet Office and the Australian Institute of Criminology. His recent research has focused on corruption.
Adam Henschke
Postdoctoral research fellow at the National Security College, Australian National University.
Andrew Hockley
Andrew Hockley is director of external relations at the University of Melbourne. He served in the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet as a senior executive responsible for coordination of strategic policy and deregulation policy through the Gillard and Abbott governments.
A J Brown
A J Brown is professor of public policy and law, and program leader of public integrity and anti-corruption, in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University. He's a former senior investigator for the Commonwealth Ombudsman, associate to Justice Tony Fitzgerald AC QC, ministerial advisor and current member of the board of Transparency International Australia.
Andrew Kibblewhite
Andrew Kibblewhite is chief executive of the New Zealand Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Andrew began his career at Treasury and later served as its deputy chief executive. He also led the secretariat supporting the Better Public Services Advisory Group, and served as director of the DPMC Policy Advisory Group.
Attracta Lagan
Attracta is co-principal of Managing Values, working in the areas of values and applied ethics to promote more humane workplaces and ethical global marketplace.
Anne Lane
Dr Anne Lane is the public relations subject area coordinator at QUT Business School. Anne's research focus is on the role of dialogue and engagement for organisations and their stakeholders.
Andrew Leigh
Andrew Leigh is the federal member for Fenner and the Shadow Assistant Treasurer. Before being elected in 2010, he was a professor of economics at the Australian National University.
Alex Malley
Alex Malley is the chief executive of CPA Australia. He also heads its financial services subsidiary, CPA Australia Advice.
Andrew Mills
Andrew Mills is second commissioner of the Australian Taxation Office, with responsibility for law practice, dispute resolution and the ATO's role in policy and law design. Previously he was a director of specialist national tax firm Greenwoods & Freehills.
Apolitical
Apolitical is a global network for government, helping public servants find the ideas, people and partners they need to solve the hardest challenges facing our societies.
Abul Rizvi
Abul Rizvi left the Australian Public Service in 2015 as a deputy secretary in the Department of Communications. He was previously deputy secretary in the Department of Immigration until 2007. He was awarded the Public Service Medal and the Centenary Medal for services to development and implementation of immigration policy, including in particular the reshaping of Australia’s intake to focus on skilled migration. Abul is undertaking a PhD on Australia's immigration policies.
Alex Roberts
Alex Roberts is an innovation specialist and the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation. Previously Alex worked at the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science supporting the Australian Public Service innovation network.
Amanda Rose
Amanda Rose is a brand strategist, speaker and founder and CEO of The Business Woman Media.
Dr Andrew Scott
Dr Andrew Scott is an associate professor in politics and policy at Deakin University's School of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has authored four books and numerous chapters on Australian politics, policy and history.
Andrew Tongue
Andrew Tongue is the secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Victoria. He was previously secretary of the Department of Planning and Community Development and held various roles in the Commonwealth public sector.
Anne Twomey
Anne Twomey is professor of constitutional law at University of Sydney. Anne has previously served as secretary to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee, and worked for government bodies such as the High Court of Australia and the Cabinet Office of NSW.
Ariadne Vromen
Ariadne Vromen is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research interests include: political participation, social movements, advocacy organisations, digital politics, and young people and politics. She has completed extensive research on young people's political engagement, including a comparative project on social media use in Australia, the UK and USA. She has also co-authored several texts on Australian politics, including Powerscape: Contemporary Australian Politics.
Andrew Walter
Professor Andrew Walter is the interim director of the Melbourne School of Government, and specialises in the political economy of international money and finance. Andrew has previous held positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Oxford University, The Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (Singapore), University of British Columbia, International University of Japan, and the Pacific Council on International Policy (University of Southern California, Los Angeles).
Brett Adam
Brett Adam is managing director and vice president of engineering for Australia and New Zealand at Zendesk, the designers of the Relate Live conference.
Ben Balter
Ben Balter is the Government Evangelist at GitHub. Previously he has been a Fellow in the Office of the US Chief Information Officer responsible for drafting the president’s digital strategy and open data policy, and a New Media Fellow at the US Federal Communications Commission. Named one of the top 25 most influential people in government and technology and Fed 50’s Disruptor of the Year.
Ben Barnett
Ben Barnett facilitated the recent APS WorkHack, co-designed with the APSC. He is a principal at Nous Group and CEO of Loop Feedback, an app to enable more feedback in the workplace.
Brett Fairbank
Brett Fairbank is a senior manager at The Experience Centre, PwC Digital Services.
Bernard Keane
Bernard Keane is the politics editor at Crikey based in Canberra. He was formerly a senior public servant in various federal departments.
Stephen Blackmore & Louise Downe
Stephen Blackmore and Louise Downe are managers at the UK Government Digital Service, responsible for business transformation and service design.
Brian Lee-Archer
Brian Lee-Archeris director of the SAP Institute for Digital Government. His previous roles include 12 years with the Australian Department of Social Security, 14 years with IBM and two years with Cúram Software of Dublin, Ireland.
Brigette Metzler
PhD candidate in public policy and gender at the University of Queensland.
Bruce Muirhead
Bruce Muirhead is CEO of the public policy think tank Eidos.
Benedict Sheehy
Dr Benedict Sheehy is Head of School of Law and Justice at University of Canberra with expertise in corporate social responsibility, regulation and corporate law. He has taught law in Canada, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.
Catherine Althaus
Associate Professor Catherine Althaus is an associate dean of the Australian and New Zealand School of Government. Catherine held a policy posts in the Queensland Treasury department and Queensland Office of the Cabinet.
Cassian Drew
Cassian Drew heads Palladium’s ANZ & Pacific practice. He has previous advised on economic development, public sector and social reform for a variety of governments and strategy firms, including the Abu Dhabi government, the UK deputy prime minister, and Booz & Company.
Chris Eccles
Chris Eccles is currently secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet and head of the Victorian Public Service. He has held equivalent roles in the NSW and South Australian public services.
Colin Griffith
Colin Griffith is an advisor on digital services and innovation for Data61. Previously Colin was a senior executive with the ABC in strategic development, established ABC Online and many of its new media services.
Cam Hawker
Cam Hawker is a government relations adviser at ADFA and a PhD candidate. He has previously been an adviser on Defence in the Abbott government.
Fred Cheney & Bill Gray
Fred Chaney AO is a former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the Fraser government. Bill Gray AM is a former Commonwealth Secretary Department of Aboriginal Affairs and founding CEO of ATSIC.
Catriona Jackson
Catriona Jackson is CEO of the peak body Science & Technology Australia. She has a 28-year history in government, media and strategic communications and has worked as a senior adviser to the federal government.
Christopher Kent
Christopher Kent is the assistant governor (economic) at the Reserve Bank of Australia, acting as the chief economic advisor to the governor and the board. He was previously the head of the departments of payments policy and economic research development.
Catherine Livingstone
Catherine Livingstone AO is president of the Business Council of Australia, chair of Telstra and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council. Catherine was Chairman of CSIRO from 2001 to 2006 and has has worked on many government reviews over the past 10 years, including as a Member of the Advisory Panel for the Australia in the Asian Century White Paper and a Member of the National Innovation Systems Review Panel.
Chris Masters
Christopher "Chris" Wayne Masters PSM is a multi-Walkley Award winning and Logie Award winning Australian journalist and author.
Carmel McGregor
Carmel McGregor PSM is a former senior public servant, including deputy secretary in the Defence and Immigration portfolios, and Deputy Australian Public Service Commissioner. Carmel is currently an adjunct professor at University of Canberra, vice president of IPAA ACT, and a consultant specialising in the areas of organisational culture and leadership.
Chris Mullin
Economist in the UK Civil Service. Currently with UK's health regulator Monitor. Previously with the Cabinet Office's Implementation Unit, Treasury, and Prime Minister's Strategy Unit.
contentgroup
contentgroup helps the public sector strengthen communities and improve the well-being of citizens through effective content marketing.
Cameron O'Reilly
Cameron O'Reilly is CEO of the Energy Retailers Association. He was a Fulbright Professional Scholar in Australia-US Alliance Studies in 2008. He was a policy adviser to then-federal transport minister Laurie Brereton.
Chas Savage
Chas Savage worked as a professional economist in the Australian Public Service for almost ten years, specialising in microeconomic reform and industry change. Chas is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ethos CRS. Ethos CRS provide capability building services to the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Cameron Shorter
Cameron Shorter is a Geospatial Programs Manager and Open Source developer.
Craig Thomler
Former public servant, founder of Delib Australia and author of books relating to emerging technologies. Gov 2.0 advocate and consultant, with a focus on social media engagement and digital enablement.
Chris Vanstone
Chris Vanstone is the Chief Innovation Officer with The Australian Centre for Social Innovation.
Cara Waters
Cara Waters is the editor of SmartCompany. Cara was previously a senior reporter at the Financial Times website FT Adviser in London and has also worked for The Sunday Times.
Cassandra Wilkinson
Cassandra Wilkinson is external engagement management at The Centre for Independent Studies. She has held senior roles in the Commonwealth and New South Wales public sectors.
Camille Wilson
Camille Wilson is an HR professional, workplace and mental health consultant and the founder of Grow Together Now, with lived experience of mental illness.
Darryl Carlton
Darryl Carlton is an Industry Fellow at Swinburne University. Darryl has spent over 40 years in the practice of information technology. He was the founder, CEO and Chief Architect of the world's first SaaS ERP. He was Head of IT Strategy for Telstra, Head of Business Process Engineering for Optus, Chief Executive Officer for BizTone.com, Chief Information Officer for the Environment Protection Agency, IT strategy advisor to several government departments, and Head of Applications Development for one of the world’s largest internet service providers. He is completing a PhD on the subject: 'Understanding Cobb’s Paradox: a multi-grounded theory case study of IT project failure in the public sector'.
Danny Davis
Danny Davis is Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Performance Sciences
David Dixon
David Dixon is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales.
Darrin Durant
Darrin Durant is Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies, in the History and Philosophy of Science unit of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, at the University of Melbourne.
David Fricker
David Fricker is the director general of the National Archives of Australia and president of the International Council on Archives. David worked for 10 years at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, as CIO and deputy director general. David has also had private sector experience in computer science and strategic planning.
David Gilchrist
David Gilchrist is a professor of accounting at University of Western Australia, a chartered accountant and an economic historian. He was foundation director of the Curtin Not-for-profit Initiative, and is a member of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Advisory Board and of the Australian Accounting Standards Board Academic Advisory Panel. In his work, David has advised a number of Australian governments and authorities relating to human services governance, sustainability, accountability and strategy, most recently related to the NDIS.
Deborah Glass
Deborah Glass is the Victorian Ombudsman. Previously Deborah was the deputy chair of the UK Independent Police Complaints Commission with joint regional responsibility for London and the South-East, and before that worked as an investigator and lawyer in police matters, financial services and regulation.
Joe Dimasi & Peter J. Lambert
Joe Dimasi is a professorial fellow at the Department of Economics, Monash University. Peter J. Lambert is an assistant researcher with the Monash Business Policy Forum.
David Irvine
David Irvine is the director-general of security for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. He was formerly director-general of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.
Denise Jackson
Denise Jackson is the coordinator of Work-Integrated Learning programs at Edith Cowan University's School of Business and Law.
David Kalisch
David W Kalisch is the Australian Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Denis Muller
Dr Denis Muller has been a journalist, political scientist and senior executive in the Victorian Public Service. He is a Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advancing Journalism and a leading expert in media ethics.
Don Nutbeam
Professor Don Nutbeam is a senior adviser to the Sax Institute and professor of public health at the University of Sydney. Don was previously vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, and head of public health in the UK Department of Health.
Darren O'Donovan
Darren O'Donovan is a Senior Lecturer in Administrative Law at La Trobe Law School. Author of Law and Public Administration in Ireland.
David Pembroke
David Pembroke is founder and CEO of contentgroup, Australia's oldest public sector content marketing agency. He is a former ABC Radio current affairs journalist and communication director of the Wallabies.
Duncan Peppercorn
Duncan Peppercorn is the executive director of Social Ventures Australia Consulting. He's worked for McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company and as an independent consultant.
Dominic Powell
Dominic Powell is a journalist at SmartCompany and a tech and music geek. When he’s not writing, you can find him reading or browsing record shops.
David Reynolds
David Reynolds has more than 30 years’ experience assisting organisations in their search for exceptional executives and he has a great reputation for assisting executives in their next career move. With extensive experience both in Australia and overseas including the UK, Asia, the USA, Canada and New Zealand, David has provided executive recruitment and consulting services to many of Australia’s leading public companies, as well as government and not for profit organisations.
David Sligar
David Sligar has worked in the Commonwealth Treasury and Finance departments, primarily in budget and social policy areas. He has also worked as a parliamentary economic adviser, including for a former Australian Treasurer and a state Leader of the Opposition.
David Tuffley & Amy Antonio
David Tuffley & Amy Antonio is a senior lecturer in Applied Ethics and Socio-Technical Studies at Griffith University. Amy Antonio lectures at University of Southern Queensland.
David Walker
David Walker runs publishing consultancy Shorewalker DMS and is commissioning editor of Acuity magazine. David has had a long career in journalism and communications as well as held policy and communications roles at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia and the Business Council of Australia.
Dan Wood
Dan Wood is a former senior advisor in the Queensland government, overseeing shared services and whole of government ICT, and a former prosecutor with the Queensland Director of Public Prosecutions. Dan is now working at EY.
Eve Ash
Eve Ash is a psychologist, author, filmmaker, public speaker and entrepreneur. She runs Seven Dimensions, a company specialising in training resources for the workplace.
Emily Banks
Professor Emily Banks leads Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Epidemiology for Policy and Practice at The Australian National University. Emily is the scientific director of the Sax Institute’s 45 and Up Study.
Eddie Cranswick
Eddie Cranswick is the creative founder at Now VR, a start-up company developing virtual reality experiences for Google Cardboard, Gear VR and Oculus Rift.
Eddie Fry
Edward (Eddie) Fry is a Dagoman-Wardaman man from the Katherine region in the Northern Territory. Eddie chairs both the Commonwealth-owned Indigenous Land Corporation and the not-for-profit Indigenous Business Australia, and has extensive experience in the mining and resource industry.
Eloise Keating
Eloise Keating is deputy editor of SmartCompany. Previously Eloise was news editor at Books+Publishing, the trade press for the Australian book industry.
Emily Jenke & Emma Lawson
Emma Lawson and Emily Jenke are CEOs of democracyCo and conveners of the citizens’ jury on nuclear waste storage in South Australia.
Edward Santow
Edward Santow has been Human Rights Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission since August 2016, with responsibilities for modern slavery, detention and torture, LGBTI, freedom of expression, freedom of religion and freedom of association. Ed was previously a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Law School and chief executive of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre.
Emma Tomkinson
Emma Tomkinson is a social impact analyst who has worked on social impact bond policy for the New South Wales and United Kingdom governments. She is also a social impact bond investor and a member of the advisory committee for the Global Value Exchange, an open-source database of values, outcomes and indicators.
Fay Calderone
Fay Calderone is an Employment Law & Workplace Relations Partner at Hall & Wilcox. She has served as Deputy Chair of Sport NSW and has been recognised by the NAB Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards; the Lawyers Weekly Partner of the Year Awards & Women in Law Awards; NSW Women Lawyer’s Association and our sister publication Smart Company.
Fred Chaney
Fred Chaney is chairman of Desert Knowledge Australia and is on the board of Reconciliation Australia. He previously served as deputy chair of the Australian Native Title Tribunal. He was a minister in the Fraser government between 1978 and 1983.
Jerry Fishenden & Marie Johnson
Dr Jerry Fishenden is an independent technology advisor, including to the UK government, and a senior research fellow at Bath Spa University. Marie Johnson is the Managing Director and chief digital officer at the Centre for Digital Business.
Gabrielle Appleby
Dr Gabrielle Appleby is an associate professor of law at the University of New South Wales, teaching public and constitutional law, powers and accountability of the executive government, the operation of the Australian federal system, and the independence and integrity of the judicial branch. Gabrielle has previously worked for the Queensland Crown Solicitor and the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office.
Greg Austin
Dr Austin is a Professor in the Australian Centre for Cyber Security at the University of New South Wales (Canberra). He concurrently serves as a Professorial Fellow with the EastWest Institute (EWI) in New York. He has a career of achievement in international security affairs. As Vice-President of the EastWest Institute, he led its work on counter-terrorism, countering violent extremism, and cyber security, including leadership and supervision of research output.
Gary Banks
Gary Banks is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne University, as well as an Adjunct Professor and Public Policy Fellow of the Australian National University. He is a former CEO of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and past chairman of the Productivity Commission.
Glenys Beauchamp
Glenys Beauchamp is secretary of the federal Department of Industry and Science and president of the ACT branch of the Institute of Public Administration Australia. She has held previous chief executive and senior executives roles in the federal Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, and in the ACT public service. Glenys was awarded a Public Service Medal in 2010 for coordinating Australian Government support during the 2009 Victorian bushfires.
Gemma Carey
Associate Professor Gemma Carey, Research Director, Centre for Social Impact, UNSW.
Gemma Carey & Fiona Buick
Dr Gemma Carey and Assistant Professor Fiona Buick are researchers at UNSW Canberra (ADFA). Gemma specialises in public policy and social determinants of health. Fiona specialises in human resources and organisational culture.
Gemma Carey & Daniel Reeders
Dr Gemma Carey is an NHMRC Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer with UNSW Canberra. She holds a PhD in social policy and population health from the University of Melbourne. In particular, Dr Carey has investigated processes of ‘joining up’ within government and between government and non-government organisations. She runs a program of research at present focused on the implementation of the NDIS. Daniel Reeders is a a Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Service Research and is undertaking a PhD at the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance. He has worked in community based organisations in HIV prevention and cancer screening since 2004.
Geoff Edwards
Dr Geoff Edwards is President of The Royal Society of Queensland.
Geoffrey Edwards
Dr Geoffrey Edwards is an Adjunct Professor, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University. Educated first in biological science. Career in public parks and land management (two States and Papua New Guinea) and later in natural resource policy within the Queensland Government. Also served as municipal councillor and Shire President in Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges.
Georgina Dent
Georgina Dent is editor of Women's Agenda. She's a former lawyer and business journalist.
Gareth Evans
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans is chancellor of the Australian National University. Gareth was foreign minister of Australia for eight years, with prior roles as minister for transport and communications, resources and energy, and attorney-general.
Geoff Gallop
Geoff Gallop was the 27th Premier of Western Australia, from 2001 to 2006 during a 20-year career in state parliament. He is currently Emeritus Professor, Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, having served as Director of the Graduate School of Government until 2015.
Grant Hehir
Grant Hehir is the current Commonwealth auditor-general and a former departmental secretary. Prior to his current 10-year term, he was auditor-general of NSW. Previously Grant has served as secretary of the Victorian departments of Treasury and Finance and Education and Training. He also served as chair of the Victorian Leadership Development Centre.
Lord Gus O'Donnell
Lord Gus O'Donnell is non-executive chairman of Frontier Economics. He was the cabinet secretary, the highest official in the British civil service, under three prime ministers between 2005 and 2011.
Nicholas Gruen & Chris Vanstone
Nicholas Gruen and Chris Vanstone are chairman and chief innovation officer of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation respectively.
Gary Sacks, Jane Martin & Lennert Veerman
Gary Sacks is a senior research fellow at WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University. Jane Martin is executive manager of the Obesity Policy Coalition and senior fellow in the faculty of medicine, dentistry and health sciences, University of Melbourne. Lennert Veerman is a senior research fellow at the school of population health, The University of Queensland.
Glenn Stevens
Glenn Stevens is governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia. He was formerly deputy governor after a long career as an economist
Gary Sturgess
Premier's ANZSOG chair in Public Service Delivery at the University of New South Wales and professor at the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. Former Director-General of the NSW Cabinet Office.
Helen Andrews
Helen Andrews is a Policy Analyst at the Centre for Independent Studies.
Helen Dickinson
Helen Dickinson is the Associate Professor for Public Service Research at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. She has published widely on governance, leadership, organisational behaviour and rationing.
Helen Dickinson and Helen Sullivan
Helen Dickinson is an associate professor in public governance at the University of Melbourne. Helen Sullivan is professor and director of the Melbourne School of Government at the University of Melbourne and sits on The Mandarin's editorial advisory board.
Olivia Hilton & Tarah Barzanji
Olivia Hilton is executive director of consulting at Social Ventures Australia, and managing dditor of the SVA Consulting Quarterly. Tarah Barzanji was manager, special projects at Social Ventures Australia and holds a Masters of Public Policy from Harvard University.
H. K. Colebatch
H.K. Colebatch established the graduate program in Social Science and Policy at UNSW, where he is now Visiting Professorial Fellow in Public Health and Policy Studies
Henry Sherrell
Henry Sherrell is a former immigration policy official with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and policy officer with the Migration Council Australia. Henry blogs about immigration issues at On The Move and Facebook.
Helen Signy
Helen Signy is with The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, a national initiative that is working to identify new ways of preventing lifestyle-related chronic disease.
Helen Sullivan
Professor Helen Sullivan is Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Previously, Helen served as the foundation director of the Melbourne School of Government at University of Melbourne.
Helen Szoke
Dr Helen Szoke is chief executive of Oxfam Australia. She has previously served as commissioner of the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, and as race discrimination commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Ian Anderson
Dr Ian Anderson AO is a Palawa man, born in Tasmania, but spent most of his life in the Koori community in Victoria. Ian is Deputy Secretary of Indigenous Affairs at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, responsible for coordinating the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) response to the refresh of the Closing the Gap targets for Indigenous health and social disadvantage. Ian is the most senior Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander official in any government in Australia, and has previously served as the CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service, the Medical Adviser to the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Car, chairs of National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equality Council, and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Higher Education Policy) at the University of Melbourne.
Ian Chubb
Ian Chubb is a neuroscientist and one of Australia's foremost academics. He was Australian of the Year in 2011, Australia's chief scientist from May, 2011 to January, 2016, and vice-chancellor of the Australian National University from 2001 to 2011.
Ian McPhee
Ian McPhee is Australia's Auditor-General. He has served in numerous roles in the public sector and is a fellow of CPA Australia, the Institute of Chartered Accounts and the Institute of Public Administration Australia.
Iona Salter
Iona Salter works in digital communications in local government. She has written for The Guardian Public Leaders Network, Asia360 News and Crikey.
Jason Whittaker
Jason Whittaker is managing editor of The Mandarin based in Melbourne. He has written for and edited political, business and culture publications for a decade. He spent two years as editor of sister Private Media publication Crikey.
Joseph Borlagdan, Iris Levin & Shelley Mallett
Brotherhood of St Laurence researchers Joseph Borlagdan (BSL and UniMelb), Iris Levin (BSL), and Shelley Mallett (BSL and UniMelb)
John Coyne
John Coyne is a senior analyst and head of the border security program for The Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
John Coyne & David Connery
John Coyne and David Connery are senior analysts at Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
John Fraser
John Fraser is secretary of the Department of Treasury. He was a long-time Treasury official before working as an investment banker for the UBS Group.
Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard AC was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia, the first women to serve in that role.
Jane Gilmore
Jane Gilmore is editor of Women's Agenda, a sister publication to The Mandarin
Jackie Huggins
Dr Jackie Huggins AM is a Bidjara (central Queensland) and Birri-Gubba Juru (North Queensland) woman from Queensland who has worked in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs for over thirty years. Jackie left school at age 15, but returned to study at 26 and three degrees later finished tertiary education. Jackie is an author and consultant on indigenous affairs, whose career has included the University of Queensland, serving on the boards of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Reconciliation Australia and the inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal Children from Their Families. Jackie is now co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples.
Jonathon Hutchinson
Dr Jonathon Hutchinson is a lecturer in Online Media at the University of Sydney. He has recently completed his thesis investigating the role of user-generated content within the ABC.
Jane Hyde & Rachel Grieve
Jane Hyde is a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at University of Tasmania. Dr Rachel Grieve is a senior lecturer in psychology at University of Tasmania.
John Langmore
John Langmore is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
John Lloyd
John Lloyd is the Australian Public Service Commissioner. John's previous roles include deputy secretary at the Commonwealth Department of Employment and Workplace Relations and Victorian Department of Business and Employment, CEO of WA Department of Productivity and Labour Relations, Victorian Red Tape Commissioner, Australian Building and Construction Commissioner, and senior deputy president Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
John Menadue
John Menadue is a former top mandarin and business leader. His extensive public sector leadership experience includes heading the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet for the Whitlam and Fraser governments, in addition to several other federal departments. He has also been CEO of Qantas and founded the Centre for Policy Development.
Janine O'Flynn
Janine O'Flynn is professor of public management at the University of Melbourne and an adjunct professor at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
John Quiggin
John Quiggin is an Australian economist, a Professor and an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and a Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a member of the Board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government.
Jenny Phillimore
Professor Jenny Phillimore is director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), University of Birmingham and a visiting fellow at the Melbourne School of Government.
J. R. Nethercote
J. R. Nethercote is Adjunct Professor, Canberra Campus, Australian Catholic University. Some of his notable government roles have included staff member of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, 1974-76; joint editor, Reforming Australian Government – the Coombs Commission and Beyond (1976); subsequently worked for Public Service Commission of Canada on reports of Royal Commission on Financial Administration and Accountability (1979) and Special Committee on Personnel Management and the Merit Principle (1979).
Joy Savage
Joy Savage is a senior executive in the Indigenous Affairs Group of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, having worked extensively in Indigenous policy as well as Multicultural policy, Immigration, Health and Ageing. Joy previously worked in the Aboriginal community controlled health sector.
Julianne Schultz
Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the founding editor of Griffith Review and chaired the reference group for the Creative Australia.
Dame Jenny Shipley
Dame Jenny Shipley is a business director and advisor. She was prime minister of New Zealand from 1997 to 1999 and previously held a number of cabinet positions.
Jon Stanford
Jon Stanford is currently a Director of Insight Economics. He was previously an economist in the Australian Public Service, ultimately in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on economic and policy issues around climate change and energy.
Julian Teicher
Julian Teicher is professor of human resources and employment and deputy dean of research at the School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University.
Jennifer Westacott
Jennifer Westacott is the chief executive of the Business Council of Australia. She was formerly a senior public servant in New South Wales and Victorian administrations.
John Wilson
John Wilson is the managing legal director of Bradley Allen Love in Canberra and an accredited specialist in industrial relations and employment law. He has twice appeared on the Best Lawyers list, and has an extensive public sector employment practice.
Kevin Andrews
Kevin Andrews is Minister of Defence, with previous ministerial portfolio responsibility for social services, ageing, employment and workplace relations, and immigration and citizenship.
Kerry Arabena
Professor Kerry Arabena is chair for Indigenous Health, director of Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit at University of Melbourne. Kerry has an extensive background in public health, administration, community development and research working in senior roles in indigenous policy and sexual health.
Karen Chester
Karen Chester is deputy chair and commissioner at the Productivity Commission.
Kim Grist
Kim Grist is the founding partner of Grist and a change management consultant. He has been a registered psychologist for over 25 years.
Ken Henry
Ken Henry was the secretary of the Department of Treasury from 2001 to 2011. He chaired the committee which produced the Australia in the Asian Century white paper. He's a director of the National Australia Bank and the Australian Securities Exchange, and is an editorial adviser to The Mandarin.
Kieron Kirkland
Kieron Kirkland is lead user researcher at the UK's Government Digital Service and director and co-founder at CAST (Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology).
Katie Miller
Katie Miller is president of the Law Institute of Victoria, on leave from her role as a managing principle solicitor with the Victorian Government Solicitor's Office. Katie has also worked as a senior lawyer with the Australian Government Solicitor.
Kristy Muir
Professor Kristy Muir is the Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Social Impact, a collaboration between UNSW Australia, Swinburne University of Technology and The University of Western Australia.
John O’Neill
Strategic agency Komosion specialises in customer experience design and digital execution.
Kym Peake
Kym Peake is secretary of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services. She previously held senior executive roles in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Kevin Riley
Kevin Riley is an independent public sector financial management consultant, advisor and trainer. He is the national treasurer of the Institute of Public Administration Australia.
Kerry Schott
Former Sydney Water chief executive and NSW Treasury deputy secretary. Dr Kerry Schott currently sits on the boards of NBN Co and Infrastructure Australia, among many public sector governance roles, and previously led the NSW Commission of Audit in 2012.
Krystian Seibert
Krystian Seibert was an advisor to the Assistant Treasurer during the establishment of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. He is currently the policy and research manager at Philanthropy Australia.
Ken Smith
Professor Ken Smith is CEO and Dean of the Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), and Enterprise Professor at The University of Melbourne. Ken served for more than three decades in the Queensland government, including as Director General of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet between 2007 and 2011.
Kim Williams
Kim Williams is a business executive. He was formerly the CEO of News Corporation Australia, and serves on various boards.
Lisa Annese
CEO, Diversity Council Australia. Former public servant in the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, where she developed the first ever census of ‘Australian Women in Leadership’, ‘Business Achievement Awards’, and ‘Employer of Choice for Women’ citation.
Leanne Ansell-McBride
Leanne Ansell-McBride is chief executive officer of Victorian Leadership Development Centre.
Luke Bo'sher
Luke Bo’sher is the head of policy at the Summer Foundation and worked in the Australian government on the design of the NDIS, including as a director at the National Disability Insurance Agency. Luke blogs at Disability Services Consulting.
Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann
Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann are political journalists based in Canberra. They have authored two fiction books: The Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code.
Louis Hof
Louis Hof has 20 years of procurement and contract management experience in government, most recently as a leader with the Queensland Government Chief Procurement Office, and now a consultant with Glentworth.
Lyndal Hughes
Lyndal Hughes is director of performance and change solutions at Third Horizon. She holds a Masters of Coaching Psychology from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Organisational Psychology from the Manchester School of Management.
Lisa Scaffidi
Lisa Scaffidi is the first female Lord Major of Perth, having held the office since 2007. Prior to that position, Lisa was the WA state director of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) for over ten years.
Lily O’Donoughue Jenkins
Lily O’Donoughue Jenkins is a PhD student with the Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing (CRAHW) at the Australian National University. Her PhD project analyses the health service use of people with cognitive decline and investigates how this research could be translated into policy and practice. Her PhD study uses the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life dataset, which has been linked with Medicare GP visits and the Admitted Patient Care Collection of Canberra Hospital. She has a double degree in arts and science, with honours in psychology. Prior to becoming a PhD student Lily worked in epidemiology focussing on the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the ACT.
Larry Kamener
Larry Kamener is founder of the Centre for Public Impact and leads the Boston Consulting Group's Global Public Sector Practice Area. Larry has advised the Australian, New Zealand, Victorian, Queensland and New South Wales governments in the areas of education, welfare, justice, policing, health care, energy and transport. Previously, Larry was an economics advisor at the federal and Victorian Treasury departments.
Linda Leung
Linda Leung is an associate professor of arts, cultural and digital creative industries at University of Technology, Sydney.
Leonie Pearson
Dr Leonie Pearson leads research projects at the Regional Australia Institute, with a specialisation in integrating economics with social-ecological context.
Lauren Solomon
Lauren Solomon is the CEO of the Consumer Policy Research Centre, leading a team of policy and research specialists to delivering fair outcomes for consumers through policy and practice change.
Luke Sayers
Luke Sayers is CEO of PwC Australia and vice chairman of PwC Asia.
Eleanor Malbon & Gemma Carey
Associate Professor Gemma Carey is the Research Director of the Centre for Social Impact UNSW and an NHMRC Fellow. Eleanor Malbon is a Research Fellow within the UNSW Canberra Public Service Research Group.
Mary Ann O'Loughlin
Mary Ann O'Loughlin was executive councillor and head of the secretariat of the COAG Reform Council. She's held senior public sector roles in the Commonwealth, advised former prime minister Paul Keating and worked as a consultant.
Mark Scott
Mark Scott is the managing director of the ABC. He was formerly a senior executive at Fairfax.
Dr Mark Bahnisch
Dr Mark Bahnisch is a sociologist, writer and consultant. He is a fellow of the Centre for Policy Development and has analysed Australian and Queensland politics across a variety of media since 2004.
Matthew Beard
Dr Matthew Beard is an ethicist and writer at The Ethics Centre. He also blogs at matthewbeard.com.
Mark Birrell
Mark Birrell is chairman of Infrastructure Australia and chairman of the Port of Melbourne Corporation. He's served on a number of boards and was formerly a minister in the Victorian government.
Martin Bortz
Martin Bortz is a research fellow at the Melbourne School of Government. He is currently completing a PhD on the use of management consultants in public policy, and also worked as a consultant for several years.
Miguel Carrasco
Miguel Carrasco is partner and managing director in the Canberra office of The Boston Consulting Group. He is also a senior advisor to the Centre for Public Impact.
Bob McMullan & Sean Innis
Bob McMullan and Sean Innis are directors of the Crawford Leadership Forum and Public Policy and Societal Impact Hub at the Australian National University. McMullan is a former minister for trade and national secretary. Innis was special adviser to the Productivity Commission and held senior executive positions in a number of APS departments.
Milton Cockburn
Milton Cockburn is a former Sydney Morning Herald journalist, editor and Canberra bureau chief. He was the general manager of media management with the Sydney Olympic Games and executive director of the Shopping Centre Council of Australia.
Max Costello
Max Costello is a former WorkSafe Victoria prosecuting solicitor. He co-wrote submissions to the Moss review and the Senate Select Committee on Nauru abuses.
Matthew Crozier
Matthew Crozier is a co-founder and CEO of Bang the Table, a consultancy in community digital engagement. He's a former policy worker in the public service.
Mark Evans
Mark Evans is the Director and Professor of Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis.
Martin Hoffman
Martin Hoffman is Secretary of the NSW Department of Finance, Services & Innovation. He was previously Deputy Secretary at the Commonwealth Department of Industry & Science (and its predecessors), where he worked resources and energy matters, including significant international engagement bilaterally and with the International Energy Agency and the G20. Martin joined the APS in March 2009 in the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet. Before joining the public sector, Martin had a lengthy private sector career primarily in digital media and technology.
Marie Johnson
Marie Johnson is managing director and chief digital officer for the Centre for Digital Business. Previously, Marie has held senior executive roles in the public and private sectors in technology and innovation, and previously the Microsoft World Wide Executive Director Public Services and eGovernment.
Marlene Kanga
Dr Marlene Kanga AM is a non-executive director of Sydney Water Corporation, board member of Innovation Science Australia Board and chair of the AusIndustry R&D Incentives Committee. She is also president-elect of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations.
Michael Keating
Michael Keating is a former top senior executive in the Australian Public Service, having been secretary of several federal departments including Prime Minister and Cabinet during the Paul Keating government, Finance, and Employment and Industrial Relations.
Michael Macaulay
Michael Macaulay is Associate Dean (Professional programmes) at Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington. He coordinates the ANZSOG executive workshop Leading Ethical Organisations, and is subject leader of the EMPA subject Delivering Public Value.
Marco Mancesti
Marco Mancesti is R&D director at IMD Business School in Geneva.
Maxine McKew
Maxine McKew is an honorary fellow of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and author of Class Act. She was a federal Labor MP and formerly a journalist at the ABC.
Mike Mrdak
Mike Mrdak is the secretary of the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development. He has held senior positions across the portfolio and with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Malcolm Mulholland
Malcolm Mulholland is a senior researcher in Maori Studies at Massey University in Wellington, NZ.
Michael Pezzullo
Michael Pezzullo is Secretary, Department of Home Affairs following a machinery of government reorganisation in 2017. He was previously Secretary, Department of Immigration and Border Protection, and held senior roles in Customs, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Department of Defence, as well as senior advisor roles to a foreign minister and a leader of the opposition.
Melinda Polimeni
Dr Melinda Polimeni, Senior Practice Design Specialist, Parenting Research Centre
Myriam Robin
Myriam Robin is a media reporter at Crikey. She's an economics graduate who previously reported on business for LeadingCompany and SmartCompany.
Matt Ryan
Matt Ryan is the director of public policy and strategy at The Australian Centre for Social Innovation. He was deputy chief of staff to South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill, advising on a wide range of policy areas, including strategic engagement and communication, inter-governmental relations and climate change.
Michael Sainsbury
Michael Sainsbury is a freelance journalist working across Asia. He edits Little Red Blog and is former Beijing correspondent for The Australian.
Michael Shoebridge
Michael Shoebridge is director of the defence and strategy program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Michael has worked in policy, intelligence and project delivery in the Defence, Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Finance departments. He was the defence policy person in the Australian Embassy in Washington, and has worked in two Commonwealth Ministers’ offices.
Mike Smith
Former Labor Party State Secretary in Northern Territory, government relations consultant and owner of Ethical Consulting Services.
Martin Stewart-Weeks
Martin Stewart-Weeks is an independent advisor and consultant working at the intersection of government, technology and innovation. He worked for Cisco's strategy and innovation group for 13 years and was a member of the Government 2.0 Task Force that reported to Lindsay Tanner. He advises the public sector program at Deloitte. The views here are his own.
Matthew Taylor
Matthew Taylor is a research fellow in the economics program at The Centre for Independent Studies. He has previously worked for a number of universities and government agencies.
Max Theilacker
Dr Max Theilacker is a research fellow at the Centre for Workplace Leadership, University of Melbourne.
Mark Warburton
Mark Warburton is a long-standing government analyst of higher education and payment models, and most recently principle analyst at Universities Australia.
Michael Winram
Senior Associate at Maddocks Lawyers, who has advised all levels of government. Michael has a particular focus on dispute resolution, development approvals, environmental regulation and remediation of contaminated land.
Nic Dillon
Nic Dillon is a management consultant at Nous Group and an expert in public data regulation.
Neil Glentworth
Neil Glentworth is the founder and chair, GWI and founder, Democracy Intelligence, solving the most complex of business problems through data and information.
Nicholas Gruen & Nick Kamper
Nicholas Gruen is CEO of Lateral Economics and chair of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation and the Open Knowledge Foundation (Australia), and a former adviser to the federal government. Nicholas Kamper is Research Associate at Lateral Economics.
Nicholas Gruen
Nicholas Gruen is CEO of Lateral Economics. He's an economist, a consultant, a commentator and a former adviser to the federal government.
Nicholas Jackson
Nicholas Jackson is principal at Jackson Advisory. He has been a management consultant for 20 years, advising clients in Australia, South East Asia and China on strategy implementation.
Neil Westbury
Neil Westbury PSM is a former senior public servant, having held executives roles in Indigenous Land Corporation, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, NT Chief Minister's Department, Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, and Reconciliation Australia, among others. Neil is a visiting fellow in Public Policy at Australian National University.
Jesse E. Olsen & Andreas Pekarek
Dr Jesse E. Olsen is a research fellow at the Centre for Workplace Leadership, University of Melbourne. Dr Andreas Pekarek lectures in human resource management at University of Melbourne.
Percy Allan
Percy Allan AM is the former secretary of the NSW Treasury. He now runs a consulting practice advising on policy, economics, finance and management in the public sector and writes a regular column for the Eureka Report.
Paul Barnes
Dr Paul Barnes is head of risk and resilience at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, having experience both in academia and government for agencies including Defence Security Authority and Queensland Fire and Rescue Service and Department of Primary Industries.
Patrick Carvalho
Dr Patrick Carvalho is a Research Fellow in the economics program at the Centre for Independent Studies. He has worked as the Head of the Economic Studies Division at the Federation of Industries of Rio de Janeiro and as a Lecturer in the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University.
Phillip Glyde
Phillip Glyde is the chief executive of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, following a 38-year public service career in several Australian government departments and agencies including Agriculture, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Environment, and Resources and Energy, as well as the resource Assessment Commission and CSIRO. Internationally, Glyde has worked with the Environment Directorate of the OECD in Paris and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the United Kingdom.
Peter Harris
Peter Harris AO is chairman of the Productivity Commission. Peter has previously served as a staffer to Prime Minister Bob Hawke, as secretary of Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and headed Victorian agencies responsible for Sustainability and the Environment; Primary Industries; and Public Transport.
Pradeep Philip & Vishaal Kishore
Dr Pradeep Philip is the former secretary of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and inaugural CEO of LaunchVic. Pradeep is a member of the Melbourne School of Government Advisory Board and Principal of Ergo Consilium. Dr Vishaal Kishore is Professor of Innovation and Public Policy at RMIT and Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne School of Government.
Pia Andrews
A renowned data and digital government specialist, Pia Andrews most recently worked an executive in the NSW government. Pia has also worked for the Australian and New Zealand governments and also been an organiser with GovHack.
Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings is executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Peter Leonard
Peter Leonard is a business lawyer with an expertise in data-driven businesses, and principle of Data Synergies Pty Ltd. In 2018, Peter joined UNSW Business School as an esteemed Professor of Practice.
Philip Lowe
Philip Lowe is deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Paddy Manning
Paddy Manning is the business editor at Crikey. He's an author and was previously a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald.
Paul McCarney
Paul McCarney is the chief executive and co-founder of Data Republic. Paul is an investor and entrepreneur in the digital technology, data and marketing space.
Philippa Nicole Barr
PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, specialising in design research on intangible assets and spatial technologies.
Peter Newman
Peter Newman AO is professor of sustainability at Curtin University. Peter has worked in local government as an elected councillor, an advisor to three WA state premiers and was on the board of Infrastructure Australia. He was also sustainability commissioner advising the NSW government on planning issues.
Peter Noonan
Peter Noonan is Professor of Tertiary Education Policy at Mitchell Institute at Victoria University.
The Policy Project
The Policy Project at the New Zealand Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is about building a high performing policy system that supports and enables good government decision making.
Mike Pratt & Rachna Gandhi
Customer Service Commissioner, Mike Pratt, and Acting CEO for Service NSW Rachna Gandhi
Paul Roberts-Thomson
Paul Roberts-Thomson is a former teacher, director and chairman of TAFE Tasmania during the implementation of competitive market, and later director of its regulator, Skills Tasmania. Paul is now a tulip farmer, and as an employer, has first-hand experience with VET from Cert 2-5.
Peter Shergold
Peter Shergold is chancellor of the University of Western Sydney. He was secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet between 2003-2008. He has been secretary of the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business and the Department of Education, Science and Training, CEO of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and Comcare, and commissioner of the Australian Public Service Commission.
Paul Shetler
Paul Shetler was the CEO of the Digital Transformation Office and the Chief Digital Officer of the Australian government’s Digital Transformation Agency.
Peter Strong
Peter Strong is CEO of the Council of Small Business of Australia and an former retailer, director and consultant.
Peter Timmins
Peter Timmins is a lawyer and former diplomat in Australian embassies in Korea, Vietnam and the USA. Peter has been an advocate for Freedom of Information for more than 25 years, and been a consultant for NSW Premier's Department, Australian Law Reform Commission, Commonwealth Public Service Commission, and other Commonwealth and state government agencies.
Peter Varghese
Peter Varghese AO is secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. A career diplomat, Peter was appointed to the role in 2012 and has overseen the integration of AusAID. He has also served as director-general of the Office of National Assessments.
Peter Whiteford
Peter Whiteford is a professor of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He's a former ministerial adviser and has extensive professional experience in the field of social security policy and research.
Peter Woolcott
Peter Woolcott AO has served as the Australian Public Service Commissioner since August 2018, following a long diplomatic career, including as Australia’s High Commissioner to New Zealand, Ambassador for the Environment, Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva and Ambassador for Disarmament, Ambassador for People Smuggling Issues , and Ambassador to Italy. Immediately prior to his appointment as commissioner he served as Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister (at the time, Malcolm Turnbull). Woolcott was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2017 for his distinguished service to public administration in the field of international relations, and as a lead negotiator in the non-proliferation and arms control fields.
Rosemary Addis
Rosemary Addis is the chair of Impact Investing Australia, and also been appointed the Australian representative on the G8's Social Impact Investment Taskforce, and a member of the NSW government Social Investment Expert Advisory Group. A former lawyer and senior public servant responsible for nation reform at the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, and social innovation strategist for the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
Richard Bolt
Richard Bolt PSM led three Victorian state departments under five premiers, including the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources, and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. He will write regularly in Mandarin Premium at The Coalface about the highs and lows of leading in the public service.
Rod Campbell
Rod Campbell is research director at The Australia Institute and co-author of the Institute’s submission to the South Australian Royal Commission.
Roger Christie
Roger Christie is the Managing Director of Propel, a strategic consultancy that helps public and private sector clients build social capability. Propel has worked extensively with a range of federal and state government agencies.
Rob Cook
Rob Cook is the marketing manager for New Zealand-based e-procurement developer, Tenderlink.
Reg Coutts
Reginald Coutts is a former authority member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority and professor of telecommunications at the University of Adelaide. Reg now runs his own consultancy Coutts Communications
Rebecca Douglas
Rebecca Douglas is a freelance writer based in Adelaide. She has been an industrial adviser, project officer, senior advice and conciliation officer and ministerial liaison officer in the South Australian public service.
Ross Garnaut
Ross Garnaut is a professorial research fellow in economics at University of Melbourne. He has been a consultant to prime ministers and senior ministers on trade policy and relations with Asia and the Pacific since 1983. He was Principal Economic Adviser to Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Australian Ambassador to China.
Ryan Goss
Ryan Goss is a fellow at the Centre for Policy Development and a senior lecturer at the College of Law, Australian National University. Ryan's research area is constitutional law & human rights law.
Vice Admiral Ray Griggs
Vice Admiral Ray Griggs is the vice chief of the Australian Defence Force. He previously served as the Australian Navy chief.
Rod Hook
Rod Hook is a consultant in the areas of infrastructure, transport, planning, environment and property services. He is a former senior South Australian public servant and worked as chief executive of the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure.
Ron Levy
Ron Levy is an associate professor at Australian National University with a research focus on public law and political theory, especially constitutional law, the law of politics, and deliberative democracy.
Roberta Ryan
Associate Professor Roberta Ryan is director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government and UTS Centre for Local Government.
Ruth Schubert
Ruth Schubert is the associate director of the LH Martin Institute, University of Melbourne, supporting more effective governance, leadership and management capacity in tertiary sector institutions. Ruth was director of business transformation at TAFE SA.
Roger Scott
Roger Scott was director-general of the Queensland Department of Education in 1990-94. He's now executive director of progressive think tank the TJ Ryan Foundation.
Rod Sims
Rod Sims is chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. He was previously chair of the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal in New South Wales and commissioner on the National Competition Council.
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas is a communications manager for Public Sector Innovation at the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.
Richenda Vermeulen
Richenda Vermeulen is the managing director of digital strategy consultancy ntegrity.
Roberta Ryan & Melissa Gibbs
Roberta Ryan is director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government. Melissa Gibbs is deputy director of the ACELG.
Sharon Akinyi
Sharon Akinyi worked in the public service for seven years and authored the e-book How to write competitive selection criteria responses. She is a public relations strategist currently working in the not-for-profit sector.
Sharon Ardley
Sharon Ardley is an organisational development, leadership and HR professional. Currently the general manager of the Victorian Davidson Consulting & HR Solutions team, Sharon has previously been a director for several Victorian government entities, specialising in talent management, including the Victorian Leadership Development Centre, the Department of Education and Training, and IPAA.
Stephen Charles
Stephen Charles, QC, is a former judge of the Victorian Court of Appeal. He was one of four advisors to former Victorian premier Ted Baillieu on the establishment of the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission.
Steve Crutchfield
Steve Crutchfield is Managing Director Australia and New Zealand, Motorola Solutions.
Suelette Dreyfus
Dr Suelette Dreyfus a research fellow in Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, and part of an international team looking at the impact of technology on whistleblowing about wrongdoing. Suelette is also author of the 1997 book, 'Underground: Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier'.
Steven Green
Steven Green is a management consultant and accountant with one of the largest global management consulting firms.
Stephen Grey
Dr Stephen Grey is a risk management consultant and director with Broadleaf. Stephen's work has encompassed many sectors including resources, infrastructure, construction, IT, communications, climate change, and public sector procurement. In addition to his work in Australia and New Zealand, his assignments with Broadleaf have taken him to the UK, South Africa, the Philippines, the USA and Canada.
Stephen Howes & Henry Sherrell
Professor Stephen Howes is director of the Development Policy Centre at the Australian National University. Henry Sherrell is a research officer at the Development Policy Centre.
Sean Innis
Sean Innis is inaugural Director of the Public Policy and Societal Impact Hub at the Australian National University. Sean is a former senior public servant executive in the Productivity Commission, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Social Services. Sean chaired the Prime Ministerial Welfare to Work Task Force in 2005 and led the secretariat responsible for the 2004 Energy White Paper - Securing Australia’s Energy Future.
Scott Lambert
Scott Lambert was a section manager in the schools area of the Australian Government’s education portfolio.
Simon Longstaff
Dr Simon Longstaff AO is executive director of The Ethics Centre.
Steven Marshall
Steven Marshall is the 46th Premier of South Australia. He was elected to office in March 2018, and has served as leader of the South Australian Liberal Party since 2013.
SmartCompany
Smart Company is a sister publication to The Mandarin, catering to Australia’s entrepreneurs, small and medium business owners and business managers.
Stephen Mayne
Stephen Mayne is a Melbourne City councillor where he chairs the Finance and Governance Committee and is deputy chair of the Planning Committee. He's a journalist, shareholder activist and founder of Crikey.
Steven Metzmacher
Steven Metzmacher is director of Third Horizon Consulting Partners and leads the firm's public sector practice. He has over 20 years of experience in helping clients implement large scale, complex reform.
Stephen O'Bryan
Stephen O'Bryan QC is commissioner of Victoria's Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption (IBAC).
Suzie Riddell
Suzie Riddell is executive director, education at Social Ventures Australia working with not-for-profit, social enterprise and government clients in education, indigenous affairs, health and employment. She was previously a consultant at Bain & Company.
Sean Sammon
Sean Sammon is the CEO of Bastion S&GO, a government strategy and community engagement consulting firm.
Stephen Sedgwick
Stephen Sedgwick is the outgoing Australian public service commissioner. He's a former secretary of the departments of Finance, Employment and Education.
Startup Smart
Startup Smart is a sister publication to The Mandarin for the startup community.
Sue Williamson
Lecturer, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra/Australian Defence Force Academy.
Sophie Yates
Sophie Yates is a public administration researcher at ANZSOG and PhD student focusing on family violence policy.
Tracy Angwin
Tracy Angwin is executive director of the Australian Payroll Association, an independent organisation for payroll professionals. She's launched diploma-level payroll qualifications and wrote the book The Payroll Revolution: How to Identify and Leverage the Value of Your Payroll Operation.
Tyrone Berger
Tyrone Berger is law lecturer and PhD candidate at Monash University, researching patents, competition law and technology standards.
Sue Williamson & Meraiah Foley
‘The Flexperts’ are Dr Sue Williamson, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at UNSW Canberra and Dr Meraiah Foley, Research Fellow at UNSW Canberra.
The Conversation
The Conversation is an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community.
Tawfik Jelassi
Tawfik Jelassi is IMD professor of strategy and technology management. He was the Tunisian Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies during a transitional technocratic government in 2014-2015 following the Arab Spring revolution.
Tony Katsigiannis
Tony Katsigiannis is a consultant with extensive experience in the New South Wales public sector. He has served on the national submissions committee of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and has co-authored the chapter on "Business Model Approach to Public Service Innovation" in the upcoming Handbook of Services Innovation by Springer Verlag.
Tony Kevin
Tony Kevin is an author and former 30-year career diplomat including as ambassador in Poland and Cambodia. His books, which have won numerous awards include the NSW Premier's Literary Award, include A Certain Maritime Incident: the sinking of SIEV X, Walking the Camino, Crunch Time, and Reluctant Rescuers.
Tarla Lambert
Tarla Lambert is a commercial manager with Private Media, and an editorial contributor to The Mandarin and Women's Agenda.
Terry Moran
Terry Moran AC served as Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia’s most senior public servant position, from 2008-2011, and as Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Victoria from 2000-2008. Terry was National President of the Institute of Public Administration Australia from 2014-2015, and is currently the Chair of the Centre for Policy Development. He is an editorial adviser to The Mandarin.
Dr Tanya Murray
Dr Tanya Murray is a senior officer in a Queensland public service department.
Todd Neal
Todd Neal is a senior associate at Maddocks specialising in public law, planning and environment.
Tony Peake, PwC
Tony Peake is National Leader – Government at PwC Australia. He heads PwC’s team that focuses on delivery to government departments, business enterprises and statutory authorities. Tony has strong relationships with people across the political and public service spectra. PwC combines a broad understanding of regulatory and economic conditions with the functional skills of domestic and international experts, partnering with government to deliver innovative solutions. PwC aims to contribute to advancing government priorities while delivering value for money. Tony is also PwC Australia’s Managing Partner, Finance & Operations and leads teams across finance, business services, technology and real estate. He is a member of PwC Australia’s Executive Board. Outside work, Tony is a member of the Council of The University of Melbourne, a director and Treasurer of Methodist Ladies' College, and director of Melbourne University Publishing.
Timothy Pilgrim
Timothy Pilgrim PSM is the Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner. Timothy has held leadership roles in privacy functions of government for nearly 20 years, including leading development of major reforms of the Privacy Act.
Tim Soutphommasane
Tim Soutphommasane is the race discrimination commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission. An academic specialising in political philosophy, Tim has written extensively on multiculturalism. Tim has been a speechwriter for Bob Carr and a research officer for Kevin Rudd.
Vishal Beri
Vishal Beri is managing director of the public policy consultancy Aegis Consulting Group. He is a former adviser in the Australian Treasury, New South Wales Cabinet Office and NSW government.
Victoria Draudins
Victoria Draudins is a researcher and former federal Treasury analyst.
Verona Burgess
Verona Burgess is a regular columnist for Mandarin Premium. A former Government Business Editor and senior columnist for the Australian Financial Review. She has been writing about the Australian Public Service since 1990. A former Jefferson Fellow, she was also joint winner of the inaugural Richard Baker Senate prize and won a Walkley award with The Canberra Times for team coverage of the 2003 Canberra bushfires.
Vanessa Lee
Vanessa, from the Yupungathiand Meriam people, resides on the land of the Gadigal people. She has a PhD (social epi.), MPH (epi.) and BTEC degree. She is a social epidemiologist, educator and public health/ health sciences researcher within the discipline of Behavioural and Social Sciences, in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at the University of Sydney.
John R Walker & Nicholas Gruen
John R Walker is a practicing visual artist and Nicholas Gruen is the CEO of Lateral Economics.
WA Public Sector Commission
The Public Sector Commission's purpose is to bring leadership and expertise to the public sector to enhance integrity, effectiveness and efficiency. Our vision is of a high performing public sector serving the needs of our State now and for the future. publicsector.wa.gov.au
