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Tom has served in various public administration roles, specialising in digital engagement, and was a Walkley Award-winning journalist and executive editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Harley has held communications roles in the New South Wales public sector and Department of Defence and reported for titles including Crikey and the Star Observer. He's based in Canberra.
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Stephen previously reported for Canberra CityNews and worked on industry titles for The Intermedia Group. He's based in Canberra.
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David has previously written for The Guardian and Crikey and holds a masters in international relations. He's based in Melbourne.
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Richard Austin manages all commercial aspects of The Mandarin. He has over 15 years of media experience across newspapers, magazines, radio and digital in Australian and the South Pacific and holds a masters of business administration.
Lynelle has more than 20 years experience in helping clients and partners create tangible value from their engagement, marketing and sales campaigns and has previously has worked for GE, CEO Magazine and held senior industry research roles.
Julian is an awarded journalist, editor and adviser specialising in government, business, technology and finance and has held senior roles at the Australian Financial Review, ACP, IDG and was a public policy adviser at MasterCard.
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.
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.
Postdoctoral research fellow at the National Security College, Australian National University.
Adam Graycar is a professor in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Flinders University, and previously professor of public policy at Australian National University and director of the Transnational Research Institute on Corruption (TRIC). Adam also has 22 years of senior executive experience in public services, including as head of the South Australian Cabinet Office and the Australian Institute of Criminology. His recent research has focused on corruption.
Adam Fennessy is secretary of the Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) and Victorian Male Champion of Change.
Agnès Audier is a partner and managing director at the Boston Consulting Group in Paris. She was previously chief performance officer of Havas and spent six years with Vivendi Universal as EVP, strategy and business development.
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.
Alan McDonald is an employment law specialist and managing director of McDonald Murholme in Melbourne.
Alan Davies is a principal at Pollard Davies Consulting working in transport and town planning. He blogs at The Urbanist.
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.
Alex Malley is the chief executive of CPA Australia. He also heads its financial services subsidiary, CPA Australia Advice.
Alistair Maclean is CEO of the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission, Victoria’s anti-corruption agency responsible for identifying and preventing serious corrupt conduct across the public sector. He has been an Australian diplomat in a number of countries.
Alun Probert is a media veteran and former head of strategic communications for NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet. Alun runs GovCom Group, a specialist communications agency helping Australian organisations make sense of the transition to digital.
Alvaro Maz is a co-founder of Code for Australia and its managing director. He has worked as an urban planner, designer, open data and open government consultant for Australian governments and a social entrepreneur.
Amanda Rose is a brand strategist, speaker and founder and CEO of The Business Woman Media.
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.
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.
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).
Andrew Simon is CEO of YE Performance Architects. He's also a board member of the International Leadership Association in Washington DC.
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.
Andrew Wear is a senior public servant with the Victorian Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources. He previously worked in a variety of executive roles with the Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Department of Planning and Community Development.
Senior Journalist, Pursuit, University of Melbourne.
Andrew Leigh is the shadow assistant treasurer, shadow minister for competition and Labor MP for Fraser. He has a PhD in public policy from Harvard University and was an economics professor at the Australian National University.
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.
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.
Andrew Sturdy is head of Department of Management and chair in management at the University of Bristol. Joe O'Mahoney is reading at Cardiff University.
Angus Taylor is Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister with special responsibility for cities and digital transformation. Before being elected to Parliament he was a director at Port Jackson Partners acting as a strategy and business adviser.
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.
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.
Anne-Marie Elias is a speaker and consultant in innovation and disruption for social change. She is an honorary Aasociate of the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, UTS.
Anneli Knight is a freelance journalist based in Byron Bay.
Anthony Bergin is deputy director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
APIdays is the largest Australian conference dedicated to the business and technology of web APIs. It brings together business leaders, entrepreneurs and technologists to discuss, collaborate and learn about building the platforms that support new business models.
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.
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.
Brett Adam is managing director and vice president of engineering for Australia and New Zealand at Zendesk, the designers of the Relate Live conference.
Brett Fairbank is a senior manager at The Experience Centre, PwC Digital Services.
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.
Broede Carmody is a reporter at The Mandarin sister site SmartCompany.
Bruce Muirhead is CEO of the public policy think tank Eidos.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Catherine Garner is managing director of Accenture's Health and Public Service Operating Group across Australia and New Zealand. She has 22 years of experience working with Australian government agencies at a federal and state level.
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.
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.
The Centre for Public Impact is a not-for-profit foundation, funded by The Boston Consulting Group, dedicated to improving the positive impact of governments.
Charlie Shandil is a Master of Public Administration candidate at the ANZSOG Institute for Governance, and a recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence.
Chas Savage is the chief executive officer of Ethos CRS. He's worked as an economics adviser and speechwriter for ministers. Ethos CRS specialises in communications, policy and leadership.
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.
Chris Vanstone is the Chief Innovation Officer with The Australian Centre for Social Innovation.
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.
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.
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.
Craig Allen is commissioner for public employment in the Northern Territory. He was previously an assistant director-general in the Queensland public service.
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.
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.
Damien Robinson is a senior customer service advisor at Blue Mountains City Council. He has 15 years of experience in marquee tourism, telecommunications and local government focusing on team and customer focus excellence.
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 currently a senior consultant with information and data management firm Glentworth.
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.
David Dixon is Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales.
David Gilchrist is a professor of accounting at University of Western Australia, a chartered accountant and an economic historian. He was foundation director of the Curtin Not-for-profit Initiative, and is a member of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Advisory Board and of the Australian Accounting Standards Board Academic Advisory Panel. In his work, David has advised a number of Australian governments and authorities relating to human services governance, sustainability, accountability and strategy, most recently related to the NDIS.
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.
David Reynolds is the group manager for Davidson Executive and Boards specialising in C-suite appointments, including public sector leadership and government boards.
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.
The Mandarin journalists.
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.
Dean Gingell is managing director of web analytics firm Lens10. He was formerly a senior executive with Telstra Bigpond, Domain.com.au, Optus and Westfield Digital. He also advises leading organisations including Lend Lease on their digital innovation strategies.
Deborah May is managing director and principal consultant of The May Group, a niche consulting practice that specialises in gender equity and inclusion.
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.
Denham Sadler is deputy editor of StartUp Smart.
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.
Denise Jackson is the coordinator of Work-Integrated Learning programs at Edith Cowan University's School of Business and Law.
Dinushi is a journalist at SmartCompany.
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.
Professor Don Nutbeam is a senior adviser to the Sax Institute and professor of public health at the University of Sydney. Don was previously vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, and head of public health in the UK Department of Health.
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.
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 Nathan Hughes is Marie Curie Research Fellow and senior lecturer in social policy and social work at the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. He's a senior visiting fellow at the Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne.
Dr Neil James is executive director of Plain English Foundation, which has trained more than 16,000 public sector staff in plain English and redeveloped thousands of documents and templates. Neil regularly promotes plain English and ethical communication in the media and at @drplainenglish. (© Plain English Foundation 2016. You must attribute us if you quote from this work.)
Dr Nina Terrey is a partner of ThinkPlace, a design and strategy company specialising in the transformation of complex services using design methods and approaches to systemically create public value. She works closely with senior leaders advising them on how to take a human-centred approach to managing change.
Dr Tanya Murray is a senior officer in a Queensland public service department.
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.
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.
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 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.
Eloise Keating is deputy editor of SmartCompany. Previously Eloise was news editor at Books+Publishing, the trade press for the Australian book industry.
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.
Emma Lawson and Emily Jenke are CEOs of democracyCo and conveners of the citizens’ jury on nuclear waste storage in South Australia.
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.
Emma Koehn is SmartCompany's senior journalist.
Esther Kerr-Smith is general manager, market and providers at the National Disability Insurance Agency. She was previously a principal at Boston Consulting Group.
Eve Ash is a psychologist, author, filmmaker, public speaker and entrepreneur. She runs Seven Dimensions, a company specialising in training resources for the workplace.
Felicity Lawrence is completing a PhD in workplace cyberbullying at the Queensland University of Technology. John Lidstone is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education at QUT.
Professor Fiona Stanley AC, FAA, FASSA is a distinguished research professor at the University of Western Australia and vice-chancellor's fellow at the University of Melbourne. Professor Terry Nolan AO FAHMS holds the position of Redmond Barry distinguished professor and is head of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Prof John Mathews AM is a professorial fellow at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.
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 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.
Gabrielle Appleby is an associate professor at UNSW Law and the co-director of the Judiciary Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. Grant Hoole is Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, and a member of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law.
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.
Gary Banks is the dean and CEO of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. He was formerly the chairman of the Productivity Commission and has held various roles in government. He is an editorial adviser to The Mandarin.
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.
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.
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 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.
Geoff Gallop is director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney. He was the premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006 and spent 20 years in state parliament. He is an editorial adviser to The Mandarin.
Georgina Dent is editor of Women's Agenda. She's a former lawyer and business journalist.
Glenn Stevens is governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia. He was formerly deputy governor after a long career as an economist
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.
Graeme Dobell is a journalist fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. He has reported on Australian and international politics, foreign affairs and defence and the Asia Pacific since 1975.
Port Jackson Partners has, for 25 years, been one of Australia's leading strategy consulting firms. As a director, Grant Mitchell solves strategic problems for the boards, CEOs and senior leaders of business and government.
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.
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.
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.
Helen Signy is with The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, a national initiative that is working to identify new ways of preventing lifestyle-related chronic disease.
Helen Andrews is a Policy Analyst at the Centre for Independent Studies.
Professor Helen Sullivan is Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Previously, Helen served as the foundation director of the Melbourne School of Government at University of Melbourne.
Helen 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.
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.
Professor Ian Chubb is the Chief Scientist of Australia.
Ian McPhee is Australia's Auditor-General. He has served in numerous roles in the public sector and is a fellow of CPA Australia, the Institute of Chartered Accounts and the Institute of Public Administration Australia.
Iona Salter works in digital communications in local government. She has written for The Guardian Public Leaders Network, Asia360 News and Crikey.
Jane Gilmore is editor of Women's Agenda, a sister publication to The Mandarin
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.
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.
Jason Eades is a Gunnai man from the eastern part of Victoria and is CEO of PwC's Indigenous Consulting. He is the former managing director of Eades Consulting Group, a firm specialising in Aboriginal policy and program design and reviews.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
John Coyne is a senior analyst and head of the border security program for The Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
John Langmore is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Strategic agency Komosion specialises in customer experience design and digital execution.
John Coyne and David Connery are senior analysts at Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
John R Walker is a practicing visual artist and Nicholas Gruen is the CEO of Lateral Economics.
John Rice is professor of management at the University of New England. Nigel Martin is a lecturer at the College of Business and Economics at the Australian National University.
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.
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.
Brotherhood of St Laurence researchers Joseph Borlagdan (BSL and UniMelb), Iris Levin (BSL), and Shelley Mallett (BSL and UniMelb)
Josh Taylor is a senior journalist at Crikey. He was previously an IT journalist at ZDNet.
Julian Teicher is professor of human resources and employment and deputy dean of research at the School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University.
Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the founding editor of Griffith Review and chaired the reference group for the Creative Australia.
Justin Di Lollo is the head of government relations companies (including Barton Deakin and Hawker Britton) for WPP AUNZ.
Karen Chester is deputy chair and commissioner at the Productivity Commission.
Katherine Street is director of People Flourishing. She provides consulting, coaching and training services with an extensive background in human resources.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kevin Andrews is Minister of Defence, with previous ministerial portfolio responsibility for social services, ageing, employment and workplace relations, and immigration and citizenship.
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).
Kim Grist is the founding partner of Grist and a change management consultant. He has been a registered psychologist for over 25 years.
Kim Williams is a business executive. He was formerly the CEO of News Corporation Australia, and serves on various boards.
Professor Kristy Muir is the Research Director at the Centre for Social Impact, a collaboration between UNSW, SUT and UWA.
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.
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.
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.
Leanne Ansell-McBride is chief executive officer of Victorian Leadership Development Centre.
Dr Leonie Pearson leads research projects at the Regional Australia Institute, with a specialisation in integrating economics with social-ecological context.
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.
Linda Leung is an associate professor of arts, cultural and digital creative industries at University of Technology, Sydney.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Luke Sayers is CEO of PwC Australia and vice chairman of PwC Asia.
Lyndal Hughes is director of performance and change solutions at Third Horizon. She holds a Masters of Coaching Psychology from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Organisational Psychology from the Manchester School of Management.
Malcolm Mulholland is a senior researcher in Maori Studies at Massey University in Wellington, NZ.
Marco Mancesti is R&D director at IMD Business School in Geneva.
Maria is a Victorian Public Service senior executive experienced in strategy, policy development and public administration. She is a public policy fellow at the Melbourne School of Government and mental health advocate with beyondblue and Mental Health Australia.
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.
Mark Warburton is a long-standing government analyst of higher education and payment models, and most recently principle analyst at Universities Australia.
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.
Mark Scott is the managing director of the ABC. He was formerly a senior executive at Fairfax.
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.
Martin Bowles is secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Health. He was previously secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and was a deputy secretary at the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and the Department of Defence.
Martin Parkinson is secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He was Treasury secretary between 2011 and 2014 and was the inaugural secretary of the Department of Climate Change.
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.
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.
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.
Dr Matthew Beard is an ethicist and writer at The Ethics Centre. He also blogs at matthewbeard.com.
Matthew Taylor is a research fellow in the economics program at The Centre for Independent Studies. He has previously worked for a number of universities and government agencies.
Max Costello is a former WorkSafe Victoria prosecuting solicitor. He co-wrote submissions to the Moss review and the Senate Select Committee on Nauru abuses.
Dr Max Theilacker is a research fellow at the Centre for Workplace Leadership, University of Melbourne.
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.
Michael Sainsbury is a freelance journalist working across Asia. He edits Little Red Blog and is former Beijing correspondent for The Australian.
Michael Pezzullo is secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Previously he was CEO of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. He has also served as a deputy secretary in the Department of Defence.
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.
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 Papay is CEO and co-founder of Waggl, a San Francisco company that provides a simple, cloud-based solution to help organisations listen to people, distil insights, and improve. Andrew Simon is CEO and co-founder of YE Performance Architects, an Australian company that provides customised leadership development and strategy services.
Michelle Grattan is chief political correspondent of The Conversation. She is a veteran of the Canberra press gallery and was previously political editor of The Age.
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.
Former Labor Party State Secretary in Northern Territory, government relations consultant and owner of Ethical Consulting Services.
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.
Customer Service Commissioner, Mike Pratt, and Acting CEO for Service NSW Rachna Gandhi
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.
Myriam Robin is a media reporter at Crikey. She's an economics graduate who previously reported on business for LeadingCompany and SmartCompany.
Myriam Robin is a journalist at The Mandarin's sister site Crikey. David Donaldson is a Mandarin journalist.
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.
Neil Glentworth is the founder and executive chairman of Glentworth, solving the most complex of business problems through data and information.
Nerida Cole is managing director of the Financial Advisory division of Dixon Advisory. She's a highly respected expert on superannuation, including self managed super funds, retirement planning and wealth-building strategies.
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.
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 and Chris Vanstone are chairman and chief innovation officer of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation respectively.
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.
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.
Paddy Manning is the business editor at Crikey. He's an author and was previously a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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.
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.
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.
Paul Shetler was the CEO of the Digital Transformation Office and the Chief Digital Officer of the Australian government’s Digital Transformation Agency.
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.
Paul Foxlee is the national head of infrastructure and transport at KPMG Australia. He has more than 20 years of experience advising public and private sector clients on the management, procurement and funding of large-scale infrastructure projects.
Penny Webb-Smart is executive director of service reform at the NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation. She previously worked in the private sector as a consultant and in strategy at the Commonwealth Bank.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Peter Jennings is executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Dr Peter Wilkins is an adjunct professor at Curtin University with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy and Senior Research Fellow in the Curtin Not-for-profit Initiative. He served as Western Australia’s deputy ombudsman from 2008 to 2012, and prior to this had been WA assistant auditor-general - performance review. Professor John Phillimore is the executive director of the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. He has 30 years' experience working in universities and as a senior adviser to government ministers in Western Australia. Professor David Gilchrist is director of Curtin University's Curtin Not-for-profit Initiative. He is an accountant and an historian with over 20 years' experience in the not-for-profit and charitable sector in Australia and the United Kingdom. He was a previous assistant auditor-general at the Office of the Auditor General between 2008 and 2011.
Philip Lowe is deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, specialising in design research on intangible assets and spatial technologies.
A renown data and digital government specialist, Pia Waugh works as a project manager at AUSTRAC. Pia is also an organiser with GovHack and has worked for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Finance and the Digital Transformation Office, as well as secondments to the NZ Departmental of Internal Affairs.
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.
Professor Glyn Davis is vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Melbourne and professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts.
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.
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
Richenda Vermeulen is the managing director of digital strategy consultancy ntegrity.
Rob Adams is the director of city design and projects at the City of Melbourne. He is a member of the Cities of the Future Council of the World Economic Forum. He was made the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year in 2008 and was awarded the Order of Australia in 2007 for his contribution to architecture and urban design.
Rob Thomas is a communications manager for Public Sector Innovation at the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.
Rob Koczkar is chief executive officer of Social Ventures Australia. He was previously managing director of Pacific Equity Partners.
Rob Burgess is economics commentator for The New Daily. He was formerly political columnist for Business Spectator.
Rob Cook is the marketing manager for New Zealand-based e-procurement developer, Tenderlink.
Associate Professor Roberta Ryan is director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government and UTS Centre for Local Government.
Roberta Ryan is director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government. Melissa Gibbs is deputy director of the ACELG.
Rod Campbell is research director at The Australia Institute and co-author of the Institute’s submission to the South Australian Royal Commission.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Griffin is the head of client services at Switched On Media.
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.
Sam Court is UX director at The White Agency.
Sandy Plunkett is a thought leader in entrepreneurship, technology and innovation systems. She has more than 20 years experience in the international technology sector as a commentator, consultant, venture capitalist and start-up company professional. She's written extensively on digital transformation issues and is an advisor to start-ups, corporations and governments on innovation-driven strategies and disruptive technologies and markets.
Saul Flores is a partner and executive strategy director at DT.
Sharon Akinyi worked in the public service for seven years and authored the e-book How to write competitive selection criteria responses. She is a public relations strategist currently working in the not-for-profit sector.
Sharon Ardley 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.
Simon Banks is managing director of government relations consulting firm Hawker Britton. He is a noted Labor strategist and long-time former Parliament House staffer.
Simone G Rodney is head of influencer marketing at Switched On Media.
Smart Company is a sister publication to The Mandarin, catering to Australia’s entrepreneurs, small and medium business owners and business managers.
Sophie Yates is a public administration researcher at ANZSOG and PhD student focusing on family violence policy.
Startup Smart is a sister publication to The Mandarin for the startup community.
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.
Stephen Sedgwick is the outgoing Australian public service commissioner. He's a former secretary of the departments of Finance, Employment and Education.
Stephen O'Bryan QC is commissioner of Victoria's Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption (IBAC).
Dr Stephen Grey is a risk management consultant and director with Broadleaf. Stephen's work has encompassed many sectors including resources, infrastructure, construction, IT, communications, climate change, and public sector procurement. In addition to his work in Australia and New Zealand, his assignments with Broadleaf have taken him to the UK, South Africa, the Philippines, the USA and Canada.
Stephen 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.
Stephen Blackmore and Louise Downe are managers at the UK Government Digital Service, responsible for business transformation and service design.
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.
Steve Crutchfield is Managing Director Australia and New Zealand, Motorola Solutions.
Steve Bishop is strategic director of South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils in the United Kingdom.
Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann are political journalists based in Canberra. They have authored two fiction books: The Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code.
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.
Lecturer, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra/Australian Defence Force Academy.
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'.
Suzie Riddell is executive director, education at Social Ventures Australia working with not-for-profit, social enterprise and government clients in education, indigenous affairs, health and employment. She was previously a consultant at Bain & Company.
Tarla Lambert is a commercial manager with Private Media, and an editorial contributor to The Mandarin and Women's Agenda.
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.
Terry Moran is the national president of the Institute of Public Administration Australia. He was formerly secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Victoria. He is an editorial adviser to The Mandarin.
The Conversation is an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community.
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.
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.
Tim Kastelle is a student and teacher of innovation management at the University of Queensland Business School. He blogs at TimKastelle.org.
Tim Smith, QC, was a Victorian Supreme Court judge and founded Accountability Round Table, a non-partisan group of citizens dedicated to improving accountability, transparency, probity and democratic practice in all governments and parliaments in Australia.
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.
Todd Neal is a senior associate at Maddocks specialising in public law, planning and environment.
Todd Soulas is a digital services consultant at Capgemini.
Tom Richardson is a reporter for InDaily. He has covered South Australian politics for The Australian, The Advertiser and Channel Nine.
Tom Keating is an associate professor at the University of NSW Faculty of Medicine and the Albury Wodonga Rural Clinical School, and managing director of Tom Keating & Associates.
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 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.
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.
Verona Burgess is 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.
Vice Admiral Ray Griggs is the vice chief of the Australian Defence Force. He previously served as the Australian Navy chief.
Victoria Draudins is a former federal Treasury analyst and public sector knowledge analyst for The Boston Consulting Group.
Vince Chong is a professional engineer and project manager, with almost 20 years of experience in public sector procurement, project and management roles.
Vishaal Kishore is a principal fellow at the Melbourne School of Government and chief strategy officer with LaunchVic in the Victorian government. He has held academic and research fellowships at Harvard University and Brown University in the United States and Monash University in Australia.
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.
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
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