Abdul Muktadir is a National Graduate Development Trainee, London Borough of Redbridge Council.
Anthony Bergin is deputy director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
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.
Adam Skinner, PhD, Senior Research Fellow in Systems Modelling & Simulation, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney.
Adwoa Bagalini is People Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion Lead at World Economic Forum.
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 is secretary of the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) and Victorian Male Champion of Change.
Agnes Chang is Agnes a creative story technologist at ProPublica.
Adam Graycar is at the University of Adelaide. He 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.
Postdoctoral research fellow at the National Security College, Australian National University.
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 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.
Ajinkya Shrish Kamat is a postdoctoral associate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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 is co-principal of Managing Values, working in the areas of values and applied ethics to promote more humane workplaces and ethical global marketplace.
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.
Albert Van Dijk is Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University.
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.
Alexander Bacalja is a lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.
Alex Malley is the chief executive of CPA Australia. He also heads its financial services subsidiary, CPA Australia Advice.
Amany Elbanna is a reader in information systems, Royal Holloway.
Amber Schultz previously worked for Nine News and The Age and created student comedy talk show The Struggle. She was a Young Walkley finalist, Jacoby-Walkley scholar, and won an Ossie Our Watch award. Amber holds a Masters in International Relations and Journalism and is fluent in Spanish.
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.
Dr Amy Nguyen is Research Fellow with the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. @DrAmyDNguyen
Andrew Bartlett is an associate lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of Sydney.
Andrew Giles MP is the federal Member for Scullin; shadow minister for Cities and Urban Infrastructure; shadow minister Multicultural Affairs; and the shadow minister assisting for Immigration and Citizenship.
Andrew Magee is a postdoctoral researcher, University of Newcastle.
Research Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent.
Annelise Balsamo is the English Curriculum Manager at the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, and is a former secondary school English teacher.
Anthony Kiem is an associate professor – Hydroclimatology, University of Newcastle.
Anthony McGinness is the founder of the Canberra Future Friendly.
Anthony Pym is professor of translation studies, languages and linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.
Anthony Smith is professor of Telehealth; and Director of the Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland.
Aparajita Bhalla is global director of Sector Transformation, Rainforest Alliance.
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 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 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 is a brand strategist, speaker and founder and CEO of The Business Woman Media.
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 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 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 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.
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 is managing director and vice president of engineering for Australia and New Zealand at Zendesk, the designers of the Relate Live conference.
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 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.
Bernice Lee is the executive director of the Hoffmann Centre on the Sustainable Resource Economy, Chatham House.
Bernice Yeung covers business with a focus on labor and employment for ProPublica. She was a member of the national Emmy-nominated Rape in the Fields reporting team, which investigated the sexual assault of immigrant farmworkers.
Brett Fairbank is a senior manager at The Experience Centre, PwC Digital Services.
Bill Tsouvalas is CEO and managing director of Savvy, founded for giving Australians access to finance using the latest technology. He is also patron of Kids Under Cover, a charity helping end youth homelessness.
Bernard Keane is the politics editor at Crikey based in Canberra. He was formerly a senior public servant in various federal departments.
Stephen Blackmore and Louise Downe are managers at the UK Government Digital Service, responsible for business transformation and service design.
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.
PhD candidate in public policy and gender at the University of Queensland.
Bruce Muirhead is CEO of the public policy think tank Eidos.
Bruce Tulgan is the founder of the management training firm RainmakerThinking and the author of 'The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done.'
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.
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.
Research Fellow -- Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney.
Camilla Nelson is associate professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia.
Carl Rhodes is professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney.
Carol A Adams is a professor of Accounting, Durham University.
Catherine Sullivan is a political analyst. She has worked for the Victorian Department of Sustainability and the Environment, and the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment.
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 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.
Centaine Snoswell is a research fellow Health Economics, The University of Queensland.
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.
Charlotte Godziewski is a lecturer in Sociology and Policy at Aston University.
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 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.
Chiara Holgate is a hydrologist & PhD Candidate, Australian National University.
Chris Price is president and CEO of Global Integrated Logistics, Agility Management AG.
Chris Wallace is associate professor, 50/50 By 2030 Foundation, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra.
Christopher Warren is an Australian journalist and writer. He was federal secretary of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance until April 2015, and is a past president of the International Federation of Journalists.
Christie M. Gardiner is an associate lecturer of Law, University of Newcastle.
Christopher Warren is an Australian journalist and writer. He was federal secretary of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance until April 2015, and is a past president of the International Federation of Journalists.
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 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.
Claire Brennan is a lecturer in History, James Cook University.
Clark Merrefield joined Journalist’s Resource in 2019 after working as a reporter for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, as a researcher and editor on three books related to the Great Recession, and as a federal government communications strategist. He was a John Jay College Juvenile Justice Journalism Fellow and his work has been awarded by Investigative Reporters and Editors.
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.
Christopher "Chris" Wayne Masters PSM is a multi-Walkley Award winning and Logie Award winning Australian journalist and author.
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.
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 helps the public sector strengthen communities and improve the well-being of citizens through effective content marketing.
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.
Craig Jeffrey is director, Australia-India Institute; Professor of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne.
Crystal Legacy is a senior lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Melbourne.
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 is a Geospatial Programs Manager and Open Source developer.
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 is the Chief Innovation Officer with The Australian Centre for Social Innovation.
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 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 is an HR professional, workplace and mental health consultant and the founder of Grow Together Now, with lived experience of mental illness.
Damien Howard has worked as a psychologist for over 30 years. He has particular interests in working with Aboriginal people, people living and working in remote cross-cultural contexts and psycho social issues of listening problems (mild hearing loss and auditory processing problems).
Damien Ridge is professor of Health Studies, University of Westminster.
Dan Evans is a senior research associate in physical geography, Lancaster University.
Dr Daniel D'Hotman, senior researcher at Blueprint Institute.
Daniel Stewart is a senior lecturer and the independent Research Monitor for Australia as part of the international Open Government Partnership.
Darrell K. Rigby is a partner in the Boston office of Bain & Company. He heads the firm’s global innovation practice. He is the author of “Winning in Turbulence” and is a co-author of “Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos.”
David Bowman is a professor of pyrogeography and fire science, University of Tasmania.
David Collinson is a distinguished professor of Leadership and Organisation, Lancaster University
David Nicol is the managing director of BlackBerry IoT Solutions APJ.
David Uren is a non-resident fellow with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
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 is Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Performance Sciences
David Dixon is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales.
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.
Denise-Marie Ordway joined Journalist’s Resource in 2015 after working as a reporter for newspapers and radio stations in the U.S. and Central America.
Derek Willis is a news applications developer at ProPublica, focusing on politics and elections.
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 is a professor of accounting at University of Western Australia, a chartered accountant and an economic historian.
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 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 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 is the coordinator of Work-Integrated Learning programs at Edith Cowan University's School of Business and Law.
David W Kalisch is the Australian Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
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.
Professor Don Nutbeam is principal senior adviser at the Sax Institute and professor of public health at the University of Sydney. He is a former head of public health in the UK Department of Health under Tony Blair.
Darren O'Donovan is a Senior Lecturer in Administrative Law at La Trobe Law School. Author of Law and Public Administration in Ireland.
Don Chandima Padmaperuma is from the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.
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 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 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 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 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 is a senior lecturer in Applied Ethics and Socio-Technical Studies at Griffith University. Amy Antonio lectures at University of Southern Queensland.
Duaa Eldeib is is a reporter for ProPublica Illinois. Her work has examined the death of children in state care, the treatment of juveniles in adult court and police use of polygraphs in cases where suspects were wrongly convicted.
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 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 is a psychologist, author, filmmaker, public speaker and entrepreneur. She runs Seven Dimensions, a company specialising in training resources for the workplace.
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 is the creative founder at Now VR, a start-up company developing virtual reality experiences for Google Cardboard, Gear VR and Oculus Rift.
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.
Eileen Webb is a professor of Law and Ageing, UniSA: Justice and Society, University of South Australia.
Eloise Keating is deputy editor of SmartCompany. Previously Eloise was news editor at Books+Publishing, the trade press for the Australian book industry.
Elise Klein is a senior lecturer, Australian National University.
Elizabeth Thurbon is a scientia fellow and associate professor in International Relations/International Political Economy, UNSW.
Elizabeth Weil is a reporter at ProPublica covering California and climate. Before that, she was a longtime writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine.
Ellen Corrick is a PhD candidate, School of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne.
Emma Lawson and Emily Jenke are CEOs of democracyCo and conveners of the citizens’ jury on nuclear waste storage in South Australia.
Emma E Thomas is a research fellow & telehealth consultant, The University of Queensland.
Emma Long is a Senior lecturer in American Studies, University of East Anglia.
Professor Enrico Coiera is director of the Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University.
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.
Esperanza Vera-Toscano is a senior research fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
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.
Evangeline Rose is a postdoctoral research associate, University of Maryland.
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 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.
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.
Frank Bongiorno is a professor of history, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Frederik Vervaet is an associate professor in ancient history, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Melhourne.
The Freedom Fund is a leader in the global movement to end human trafficking.
Gabby Bush is project officer, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne.
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.
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 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 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.
Associate Professor Gemma Carey, Research Director, Centre for Social Impact, UNSW.
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.
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.
Dr Geoff Edwards is adjunct professor at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University and a former state public servant and local government councillor.
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 is editor of Women's Agenda. She's a former lawyer and business journalist.
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 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 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.
Glen Searle is an honorary associate professor in Planning, University of Queensland, University of Sydney.
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 and Chris Vanstone are chairman and chief innovation officer of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation respectively.
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 is governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia. He was formerly deputy governor after a long career as an economist
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.
Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He's a former editor of Arena Magazine and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Helen Andrews is a Policy Analyst at the Centre for Independent Studies.
Hannah Critchlow is a science outreach fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.
Hannah McCann is with the School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.
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 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.
Helen Hodgson is professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University.
Helena Cain studied journalism at Rhodes University and worked as a journalist in Johannesburg and London before arriving in Canberra where she made the switch to government communication and then management consulting. Helena currently holds partnerships with Artemis Partners and Access Alumni, as well as university qualifications in public policy and education.
Henrietta Lyons is a PhD candidate, Human-Computer Interaction, School of Computing and Information System, Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne.
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 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 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 is with The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, a national initiative that is working to identify new ways of preventing lifestyle-related chronic disease.
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.
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 B. Hickie, MD is Co-Director, Health ad Policy at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney.
Ian Lang is chief academic officer for UHE, the former director of curriculum at AFTRS, the former head of the VCA Film School at the University of Melbourne, and the former head of the Griffith Film School at Griffith University.
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 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.
Ieuan Cranswick is a senior lecturer in Sport and Exercise Therapy, Leeds Beckett University.
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.
Information and Privacy Commission, NSW.
Irene Padavic is the Mildred and Claude Pepper distinguished professor of sociology at Florida State University.
Iona Salter works in digital communications in local government. She has written for The Guardian Public Leaders Network, Asia360 News and Crikey.
Jack Gillum is a senior reporter at ProPublica based in Washington, D.C., covering technology and privacy.
Jack Martin, is a senior research officer at the Early Intervention Foundation, which is part of the UK’s What Works network.
Jackson Stiles is public relations manager at ME Bank. He is a former communications, policy and governance consultant and former deputy editor of The New Daily.
Jacqueline Durand is assistant director of policy and projects at the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency.
Jacqueline Hendriks is a research associate and lecturer, Curtin University.
Jane Hunt is CEO of The Front Project, an independent national enterprise working to create positive change in Australia’s early childhood education system. thefrontproject.org.au
Janice Jones is an associate professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University.
Janine Dixon is an economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University.
Dr Jared M. Filed is a McKenzie Fellow, Mathematical biology and ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne.
Jason Dorrier is managing editor of Singularity Hub. He did research and wrote about finance and economics before moving on to science, technology, and the future. He is curious about pretty much everything, and sad he'll only ever know a tiny fraction of it all.
ARC Early Career Research Fellow (Decra), Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.
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.
Research Fellow Transport, Health and Urban Design, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne.
Jayashri Kulkarni is a professor of Psychiatry, Monash University.
Brotherhood of St Laurence researchers Joseph Borlagdan (BSL and UniMelb), Iris Levin (BSL), and Shelley Mallett (BSL and UniMelb)
John Coyne is a senior analyst and head of the border security program for The Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
John Coyne and David Connery are senior analysts at Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Jeff Kao is a computational journalist at ProPublica who uses data science to cover technology and artificial intelligence.
Jeffrey Wall has had a 43-year association with Papua New Guinea, including as an adviser to prime ministers and senior ministers and as a consultant to the World Bank.
Jennifer Jordan is a professor of Leadership & Organisational Behaviour, International Institute for Management Development.
Jess Davies is the chair-professor in sustainability, Lancaster University.
Jessica Huseman covers voting rights and election administration for ProPublica.
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 AC was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia, the first women to serve in that role.
Jane Gilmore is editor of Women's Agenda, a sister publication to The Mandarin
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.
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 is a PhD candidate in clinical psychology at University of Tasmania. Dr Rachel Grieve is a senior lecturer in psychology at University of Tasmania.
Jim Buttery is professor of Paediatric Epidemiology, Monash University.
John Langmore is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
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 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.
Jo-An Atkinson, PhD, is Head of Systems Modelling, Simulation & Data Science, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney; and Managing Director of Computer Simulation and Advanced Research Technologies (CSART), Sydney.
Joanna Mendelssohn is a principal fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne.
Jody Barney is a Murri woman from Urangan with kinship to Fraser Island Birri-Gubba and the Gurangi people of Barcaldine. Jody is the first Deaf Aboriginal person to have a business degree in Australia.
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.
Johannes Petry is an ESRC doctoral research fellow in International Political Economy, University of Warwick.
Dr John Butcher is an ANZSOG research fellow at Curtin University and The Australian National University.
Professor John Cartmill is Associate Dean Clinical, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, and Professor, Surgery in the Department of Clinical Medicine at Macquarie University.
John Hellstrom is with the School of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne.
John Mathews is professor emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University.
John Quiggin is a professor at the School of Economics, The University of Queensland.
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.
Jonathan Entin is Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University.
Jonathan Penm is a lecturer in Pharmacy, University of Sydney.
Jaushieh Joseph Wu is Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Head of Finance and Macroeconomics, Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL.
Jostein Engesmo is an associate professor, Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
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 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 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.
Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the founding editor of Griffith Review and chaired the reference group for the Creative Australia.
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 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 is professor of human resources and employment and deputy dean of research at the School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University.
Juan Roa is a citizenship culture adviser at Bogota’s Department of Transportation. Former Senior Designer at Corpovisionarios.
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 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.
Kalpana Surendranath is a senior lecturer in Molecular biology and Microbiology, Leader of Genome Engineering Lab, University of Westminster.
Kevin Andrews is Minister of Defence, with previous ministerial portfolio responsibility for social services, ageing, employment and workplace relations, and immigration and citizenship.
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.
Karin Narita is a PhD candidate, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London.
Kate Crowley is an associate professor, Public and Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania.
Katy Shaw is a professor of Contemporary Writings, Northumbria University, Newcastle.
Kaz Ross is a lecturer in humanities (Asian Studies), University of Tasmania.
Kcasey McLoughlin is a senior lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle.
Karen Chester is deputy chair and commissioner at the Productivity Commission.
Kenneth Rogoff is Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. From 2001-2003, Rogoff served as Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund.
Research Fellow, Transport, Health and Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne.
Kevin Omland is a professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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 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 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).
Before joining Crikey in 2018, Kishor was an editor at Honi Soit, an intern at The Sydney Morning Herald, and a legal reporter for Justinian. He has degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney.
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.
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.
Strategic agency Komosion specialises in customer experience design and digital execution.
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 is an independent public sector financial management consultant, advisor and trainer. He is the national treasurer of the Institute of Public Administration Australia.
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 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.
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 is a business executive. He was formerly the CEO of News Corporation Australia, and serves on various boards.
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 is chief executive officer of Victorian Leadership Development Centre.
Lauren Bliss is from the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne.
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 and Chris Uhlmann are political journalists based in Canberra. They have authored two fiction books: The Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code.
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 has over 20 years global industry and public sector experience, specialising in executive coaching and strategy facilitation, change mentoring, cultural change (behaviours and mindset) with a focus on resilience and performance. She is Managing Director of Treacle Consulting, holds a Masters of Coaching Psychology from the University of Sydney, and a Masters of Organisational Psychology from the Manchester School of Management, UMIST, UK.
Liam Caffery is associate professor in Telehealth and Director of Telehealth Technology, Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland.
Liam Corr is a PhD researcher in the Department of Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield.
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 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 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 is an associate professor of arts, cultural and digital creative industries at University of Technology, Sydney.
Llewelyn Hughes is associate professor of public policy, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
Dr Leonie Pearson leads research projects at the Regional Australia Institute, with a specialisation in integrating economics with social-ecological context.
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.
Lucien Wilkinson is media consultant, Health Sciences and Business and Law at Curtin University.
Luke Gosling OAM, MP is the federal Member for Solomon, Northern Territory, with the ALP.
Luke Sayers is CEO of PwC Australia and vice chairman of PwC Asia.
Lylla Younes is a news apps developer for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. She was previously a data reporter with New York Public Radio (WNYC) and Gothamist.
Madonna King is an award-winning journalist who has worked across the ABC, Fairfax and News Ltd. A fellow of the World Press Institute, she is the author of a dozen books, including biographies of Ian Frazer and Joe Hockey.
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 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.
Margaret Kristin Merga is a senior lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University.
Marie-Gabrielle Gagnon, B.A., J.D., Program Officer, Department for Women and Gender Equality, Government of Canada.
Marie Mahon is a senior lecturer in Human Geography, National University of Ireland Galway.
Marija Taflaga is a lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Relations, Australian National University.
Mark Lawrence is a professor of Public Health Nutrition, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University.
Mark Pearson is a director with Ethos CRS. He also works with members of the Centre for Strategy & Governance on competition, trade and regulatory governance service. He advises the PNG ICCC on competition, consumer protection, regulation and governance issues. Mark retired from the ACCC in 2015.
Mark Scott is the managing director of the ABC. He was formerly a senior executive at Fairfax.
Melbourne School of Design, Melbourne School of Engineering, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.
Markus Fravel is Director of Business Development & Government Affairs at TOMRA Collection Solutions.
Dr Martin Bortz is a senior research fellow at the Melbourne School of Government.
Matt Faubel is Chair of the Program Committee at the ADC Forum. He has had extensive career in public sector management and urban development and advises organisations in Australia and internationally on strategic policy.
Matthew Finch is an adjunct research fellow, University of Southern Queensland.
Matthew Ward is a senior lecturer in History, University of Dundee.
Maureen Kyne is the Director of Maureen Kyne & Associates. She is a workplace bullying, sexual harassment and discrimination specialist.
Max H. Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and the author of 'Better, Not Perfect: A Realist’s Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness.'
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.
Dr Matthew Beard is an ethicist and writer at The Ethics Centre. He also blogs at matthewbeard.com.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Megan Rose has investigated criminal justice and the military for ProPublica since 2013.
Melissa Conley Tyler is a research fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
Mark Evans is the Director and Professor of Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis.
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.
Michael Grabell writes about economic issues, labor, immigration and trade for ProPublica. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and the New York Times and on Vice and NPR.
Michael Pembroke, a former New South Wales Supreme Court judge, is the author of 'Play By The Rules – The Short Story of America’s Leadership from Hiroshima to COVID-19'.
Michael Plouffe is a lecturer in International Political Economy, UCL.
Michael Toole is a professor of International Health, Burnet Institute.
Michael Wooldridge is the former federal Health minister, 1996–2001.
Michelle Arrow is professor of History, Macquarie University.
Michelle O'Shea is a senior lecturer in management, Western Sydney University.
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.
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 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 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 is R&D director at IMD Business School in Geneva.
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 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 is a senior researcher in Maori Studies at Massey University in Wellington, NZ.
Dr Mohammad Taha is a research engineer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne.
Monica Costa is a senior research fellow, School of Economics, Curtin University.
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.
Dr Melinda Polimeni, Senior Practice Design Specialist, Parenting Research Centre
Myriam Robin is a media reporter at Crikey. She's an economics graduate who previously reported on business for LeadingCompany and SmartCompany.
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 is a freelance journalist working across Asia. He edits Little Red Blog and is former Beijing correspondent for The Australian.
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.
Former Labor Party State Secretary in Northern Territory, government relations consultant and owner of Ethical Consulting Services.
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 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.
Dr Max Theilacker is a research fellow at the Centre for Workplace Leadership, University of Melbourne.
Mark Warburton is a long-standing government analyst of higher education and payment models, and most recently principle analyst at Universities Australia.
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.
Naval Group is the European leader in naval defence. The group designs, produces and supports submarines and surface ships, and supplies services to shipyards and naval bases.
Nic Dillon is a management consultant at Nous Group and an expert in public data regulation.
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 is CEO of Lateral Economics. He's an economist, a consultant, a commentator and a former adviser to the federal government.
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.
Nick Richardson is adjunct professor of Journalism, La Trobe University.
Nigel William Crawford is an associate professor, Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
Niki JP Alsford is a professor in Asia Pacific Studies, Director of the Asia Pacific Studies Institutes, University of Central Lancashire.
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 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.
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.
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and International Relations, University of Kent.
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.
Patrick van Esch is a senior lecturer in marketing, AUT Business School, Auckland University of Technology.
Paul Groagan is with the Cancer Council NSW and the University of Sydney.
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.
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.
Peter Achterstraat is the NSW Productivity Commissioner.
Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor professor of management at the Wharton School and a director of its Center for Human Resources. He is the author of several books, including ‘Will College Pay Off? A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make.’
Peter J. Dean is the chair in defence studies and director of the defence and security program at the University of Western Australia.
Peter Murphy is a professor of public policy and management, Nottingham Trent University.
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 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.
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.
Phillip Baker is a research fellow at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University, Deakin University.
Pi-Shen Seet is a professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University.
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 is executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
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 is deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Paddy Manning is the business editor at Crikey. He's an author and was previously a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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.
PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, specialising in design research on intangible assets and spatial technologies.
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 is Professor of Tertiary Education Policy at Mitchell Institute at Victoria University.
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.
Customer Service Commissioner, Mike Pratt, and Acting CEO for Service NSW Rachna Gandhi
Priscila Machado is a research fellow at the School of Exercise & Nutrition Science, Faculty of Health, Deakin University.
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 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 was the CEO of the Digital Transformation Office and the Chief Digital Officer of the Australian government’s Digital Transformation Agency.
Peter Strong is CEO of the Council of Small Business of Australia and an former retailer, director and consultant.
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 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 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 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 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.
Radhika Khosla a senior researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, University of Oxford.
Ralph Evans AO is a former management consultant and head of Austrade. His new book “Toast” probes why many Australians deny climate change and whether technology can save us.
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 is research director at The Australia Institute and co-author of the Institute’s submission to the South Australian Royal Commission.
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 is the marketing manager for New Zealand-based e-procurement developer, Tenderlink.
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 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 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 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 is the vice chief of the Australian Defence Force. He previously served as the Australian Navy chief.
Rhonda Sharp is emeritus professor, UniSA Justice and Society, University of South Australia.
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.
Richard Hames is a writer, futurist, entrepreneur & mentor. He is the founder and executive director of the Centre for the Future.
Dr Richard Yin is a GP and the Honorary Secretary of Doctors for the Environment Australia.
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.
Rob Bourke is a former economic adviser in the Department of Defence’s Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group.
Robert Chilcott is a professor at the Centre for Research into Topical Drug Delivery and Toxicology, University of Hertfordshire.
Robert Faturechi is an investigative reporter at ProPublica.
Robin J. Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Gender Initiative.
Roger Wilkins is deputy director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne.
Ross Bradstock is a professor at the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, University of Wollongong.
Associate Professor Roberta Ryan is director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government and UTS Centre for Local Government.
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 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 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 is a communications manager for Public Sector Innovation at the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.
Russell Drysdale is Associate Professor, School of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne.
Richenda Vermeulen is the managing director of digital strategy consultancy ntegrity.
Roberta Ryan is director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government. Melissa Gibbs is deputy director of the ACELG.
S Jonathon O'Donnell is a postdoctoral fellow in American Studies, University College Dublin.
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.
Sally Breen is a senior lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University.
Sally Hussey is Bang the Table's Principal Writer and Editorial Director. She has an extensive background in the publishing, academic and cultural sectors.
Professor Sally Redman is CEO of the Sax Institute. Previously she was the inaugural director of the National Breast Cancer Centre.
Samantha Hepburn is the director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University.
Samantha Vilkins is a PhD candidate, Australian National University.
Samuel Grimonprez is a consultant at the Education Sector of UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.
Sangeeta Pilger is the founder of Achievement Zone Coaching, an executive coach, facilitator, and a workplace mediator. She is co-author of the Number 1 Amazon Best Seller Book ‘In the Moment Coaching for Leaders: Quick and Effective Strategies to Inspire, Connect and Excel’.
Sara Sneath is a freelance environmental journalist, cyclist and U.S. Marine veteran.
Sarah Duffy is a lecturer, School of Business, Western Sydney University.
Sarah Elk is a partner in Bain & Company’s Chicago office and heads its global operating model practice. She is also a co-author of “Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos.”
Dr Sarah White is a Senior Lecturer in Professional Practice in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University and the Deputy National Representative for the International Association for Communication in Healthcare in Australia. @DrSarahJWhite
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, 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.
Scott Hamilton is a Melbourne-based author, researcher, and policy adviser, researching the history of bipartisanship in Australia.
Steve Crutchfield is Managing Director Australia and New Zealand, Motorola Solutions.
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'.
Sebastian Rosenberg, PhD, Senior Lecturer at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney and Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University.
Steven Green is a management consultant and accountant with one of the largest global management consulting firms.
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.
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.
Simon McCarthy-Jones is an associate professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin.
Simon Tormey is a professor of politics at the University of Bristol.
Sinem Güravşar Gökçe is a project coordinator at the Center for Social Innovation, Ankara, Turkey.
Sean Innis is inaugural Director of the Public Policy and Societal Impact Hub at the Australian National University. He was formerly Special Adviser to Australia’s Productivity Commission.
Siobhan Austen is professor of Economics, School of Economics & Finance, Curtin University.
Scott Lambert was a section manager in the schools area of the Australian Government’s education portfolio.
Dr Simon Longstaff AO is executive director of The Ethics Centre.
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.
Smart Company is a sister publication to The Mandarin, catering to Australia’s entrepreneurs, small and medium business owners and business managers.
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 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 QC is commissioner of Victoria's Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption (IBAC).
Suzie Riddell is chief executive officer at Social Ventures Australia, a not-for-profit organisation that works with partners to alleviate disadvantage – towards an Australia where all people and communities thrive.
Sean Sammon is the CEO of Bastion S&GO, a government strategy and community engagement consulting firm.
Stephen Sedgwick is the outgoing Australian public service commissioner. He's a former secretary of the departments of Finance, Employment and Education.
Startup Smart is a sister publication to The Mandarin for the startup community.
Stephanie Van Laeken is a senior policy advisor in the Ontario government.
Stephen Bartos is an expert in public sector governance, finance, strategy and risk. He was previously the NSW Parliamentary Budget Officer.
Stephen Levine is a professor of Political Science and International Relations, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington.
Stephen Loosley was a NSW Labor Senator from 1990 to 1995. He served as National President of the ALP between 1991 and 1992.
Steve Berez is a partner in Bain & Company’s Boston office and a founder of its enterprise technology practice. He is also a co-author of “Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos.”
Steve Taylor is a senior lecturer in psychology, Leeds Beckett University.
Stuart Kells is a Melbourne-based author, researcher and policy adviser, researching the history of bipartisanship in Australia.
Sujatha Raman is an associate professor, Australian National University.
Sung-Young Kim is a senior lecturer in International Relations, Discipline of Politics & International Relations, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University.
Supriya Garikipati is Associate Professor of Development Economics, University of Liverpool.
Susan Oliver is a chairperson, company director, innovator and entrepreneur.
Dr Svenja Keele is a lecturer in Human Geography at Monash University.
Lecturer, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra/Australian Defence Force Academy.
Sophie Yates is a public administration researcher at ANZSOG and PhD student focusing on family violence policy.
Tamara Banbury is a PhD Student, Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University.
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 is law lecturer and PhD candidate at Monash University, researching patents, competition law and technology standards.
Teerada Na Jatturas is a consultant at the Education Sector of UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.
Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas is group head, Electronic and Photonic Systems Group and Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne.
‘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 is an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community.
Thomas Stackpole is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review.
Tim Lomas is a lecturer in Positive Psychology, University of East London.
Tim Luckhurst is principal of South College, Durham University.
Associate Professor Tim Miller is co-director, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics; Director of Learning, School of Computing and Information Systems. Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne.
Tim Vriend is assistant professor, Economics and Business, University of Groningen.
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 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 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 is a commercial manager with Private Media, and an editorial contributor to The Mandarin and Women's Agenda.
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 is a senior officer in a Queensland public service department.
Todd Neal is a senior associate at Maddocks specialising in public law, planning and environment.
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.
Tony Walker is an adjunct professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University.
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.
Travis Bradberry is the author The Seagull Manager, Emotional Intelligence 2.0 & Cofounder of TalentSmart.
Troy Henderson is a lecturer in Political Economy, University of Sydney, University of Sydney.
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.
Uma S Kambhampati is Professor of Economics; Head of School, University of Reading.
Vanessa is senior editor of Singularity Hub. She's interested in renewable energy, health and medicine, international development, and countless other topics.
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 is a researcher and former federal Treasury analyst.
Venkatesh Narayanamurti is a Benjamin Peirce professor of Technology and Public Policy, Harvard University.
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, 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 is a practicing visual artist and Nicholas Gruen is the CEO of Lateral Economics.
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
Will J Grant is a senior lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University.
William Partlett is an associate professor, University of Melbourne.
