Speaker Highlights

Recognising the significance of the event, a number of major speakers have already committed to present at the Congress.

You can see a full listing of our 100+ speakers on the Congress app. You can also plan your schedule, find Congress pre-reading material, get information about site visits and our Dinners with a Difference, and see maps of the venue locations.

 

Programme construct of sessions and speakers – do you want to know who is speaking on what topic and at what time? For more information download the program.

 

 

PROFESSOR PERCY ALLAN AM

Session: Building public administration in our region

Percy Allan was appointed National President of the Institute of Public Administration Austalia (IPAA) in 2010.

In the past 15 years, Percy has advised national, state and local governemnts in Australia and Asia on public policy, finance and management. He has conducted independent reviews into builders warranty insurance, the Northern Territory’s finances and the sustainability of NSW local government. In the last six years he has undertaken nine reviews of individual local governement bodies.

In 1996 he was awarded an Order of Australia for his contributions to public sector reform.

DENISE AMYOT [Canada]

Session: We know what you are thinking

Denise is immediate Past President of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada [IPAC]. For the last ten years, IPAC have surveyed Canada’s most senior public servants on their views about their work environment. Canada’s economic, political and administrative systems have many parallels to Australia and, as part of an IPAA/IPAC collaboration, Denise will present the results of unique comparative study on the experiences of Canadian and Australian administrators.

PROFESSOR IAN ANDERSON

Session: Big Thinkers

Professor Ian Anderson is the foundation Chair in Indigenous Health at the University of Melbourne. In 2012, Professor Anderson joined the University’s senior leadership team as Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Higher Education Policy). He is currently Director of Murrup Barak, the Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development, in the Provost Division. Professor Anderson chairs the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equality Council.

Ian has worked in Aboriginal (Koori) health for over twenty-five years. During this time he has been involved in a number of job contexts: as an Aboriginal health worker, health educator, general practitioner, policy maker and academic.

ROBYN ANNEAR

Session: A history of public administration in ten objects

Robyn is a historian and author of numerous books including the widely acclaimed Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne and A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne. She is a member of the Library Board of Victoria, and a past Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria.

Robyn will present two pieces of new work specially for the IPAA 2012 Congress: ‘The History of Public Administration in 10 Objects’ and ‘Shame, Shock and Scandal – The Struggle to Professionalise the Victorian Public Service.’

PENNY ARMYTAGE

Session: Big ideas and public sector performance management

Penny has been the Secretary of the Victorian Department of Justice since 2003. The justice portfolio is diverse and incorporates eight ministerial portfolios.

Penny has had a diverse career principally in the Department of Human Services as Executive Director Operations and, prior to that, as Director of Child Protection and in Justice as Commissioner for the Office of Correctional Services.

She holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the Preston Institute of Technology and is a National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia. She is also a member of the Australian Institute of Comapny Directors. She has been a senior executive in the Victorian Public Service for the past 20 years.

GARY BANKS AO

Session: Australia’s Economic Landscape: key trends and implications for public administration

Gary has been Chairman of Australia’s Productivity Commission since its inception in 1998, when it replaced the Industry Commission. In this time, the Commission has established itself as a key source of independent, evidence-based advice to governments in policy areas as diverse as aged care, gambling, climate change, redtape reduction to name but a few.

He is on advisory boards at several universities, including the Melbourne Institute, and is also a member of the judging panel for the national ‘Indigenous Governance Awards.’

He was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2010 and is a National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration. In 2007 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to the developemtn of public policy.

PROFESSOR DANIEL BELL [China]

Session: Confucianism and public administration

Daniel is a Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy and Director of the Centre for International and Comparative Political Philosophy at Tsinghua Univeristy in Beijing. The author of China’s New Confucianism (Princeton University Press, rev. ed. 2010), he will discuss trends in political reform in China and their normative challenges to ‘Western’ ways of political thinking.

PROFESSOR GEERT BOUCKAERT [Belgium]

Session: Big Thinkers – Trust in the public sector

Geert is a European public administration thought leader. He is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Public Management Institute at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium. He is widely recognised expert on public administration reform across a range of countries.

 

PAUL BRODERICK

Session: Change Management

Paul was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Commissioner of State Revenue Victoria in June 2002. He joined the State Revenue Office (SRO) as Executive Director of Operations in 1998 after holding senior positions with Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Under Paul’s leadership the SRO has won an Australian Human Resources Institute award for excellence in people management, was the first governement agency in the world to achieve IT best practice accreditation under the ITIL certificate regime.

Paul holds a MBA from the University of New England, is a Fellow of Advance Institute of Management, is a CEDA Trustee, a fellow of IPAA and was awared a 2006 Symantec IT Visionary of the year award for teh Asia/Pacific region.

BRENTON CAFFIN

Session: The innovation showcase

Brenton is the founding CEO of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI), which exists to identify and support the innovative ideas, methods and people that will contribute to and accelerate positive social change.

Brenton began his career in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, later consulting to Australian and British governments on public policy, performance improvement and change management. He returned to South Australia to pursue his passion for public sector reform through executive positions with the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Government Reform Commission and WorkCover.

Brenton is an innovative and strategic thinker, advisor to the Adelaide Festival of Ideas and Board member of the global Social Innovation Exchange, and regularly presents to national and global audiences on a wide range of issues relating to social innovation and public sector reform.

DR STEPHEN E. CONDREY [United States]

Session: Public sector leadership showcase

Dr Condrey has over a quarter century of professional experience in human resource management and has consulted nationally and internationally with over 700 organisations concerning personnel-related issues.

He presently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Public Personnel Administration, and has served on the publications board of the American Society for Public Administration, as well as the editorial board of Public Administration Reivew.

He is the 1998 recipient of the University of Georgia’s Walter Barnard Hill Award for Distinguished Achievement in Public Service and Outreach, Dr Condrey was also named Hill Fellow by the University of Georgia in 2004. Steve retired from the Carl Vinson Institute of Governement, University of Georgia in 2010. He was appointed by President Obama as Chairma of the Federal Salary Council in 2012. He is President-Elect of the Americal Society for Public Administration.

JOHN DALEY

Session: Public administration and think tanks

John is Chief Executive of the Grattan Institute. He has 20 years experience spanning policy, academic, government and corporate roles at the University of Melbourne, the University of Oxford, the Victorian Department of Justice, consulting firm McKinsey and Co and most recently at ANZ where he was Managing Director of the online stockbroker, E*TRADE Australia.

John’s current research and publishing interests include government prioritisation, the objectives of government, the situations in which government intervention is justified, and the limits to government.

PROFESSOR WOLFGANG DRECHSLER [Estonia]

Session: Big Thinker – Is public sector innovation over-rated?

Wolfgang is Professor and Chair of Governance at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia and former Advisor to the President of Estonia. He has also served as Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat during German reunification, as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and a Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States Congress. He was the Vice Chairman of the executive board of Praxis, Estonia’s pre-eminent public policy think-tank.

PENNY EGAN

Session: Australia’s Economic Landscape: key trends and implications for public administration

Penny Egan has a joint role as the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Executive Officer, Business Services Network for the Department of Health and Human Services in Tasmania, a position that she has held for the past 4 years.

Prior to this role she spent 8 years as the Chief Financial Officer for Forestry Tasmania which is a Government Business Enterprise. Penny also held the position of Manager Corporate Services for Hobart Water for two years and prior to this role spent the majority of her accounting career working in the forest industry with private sector forest organisations.

Penny has been a Director on the CPA Australia National Board since 2005 and is currently the Deputy President of CPA Australia. She is the current Chair of the CPA Finance Committee, former Chair of the CPA Audit and Risk Committee. She has also a Past President of the CPA Divisional Council in Tasmania.

She has held other directorship roles in both the corporate and non government sector and was Treasurer of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival for five years. She is a Fellow of CPA Australia and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

WILLIAM D. EGGERS [United States]

Session: Big Thinker – Redefining Public Services: Embracing the disruptive forces of the publc value economy

William literally wrote the book on Government 2.0. He is also the author of If We Can Put a Man on the Moon… Getting Big Things Done in Government which was a Washington Post best sellers and is one of the United States’ best known authorities on government reform. He is currently the executive director of Deloitte’s Public Leadership Institute and is responsible for research and thought leadership for Deloitte’s Public Sector practice. See his latest thinking @wdeggers

AHMED FAHOUR

Session: Big Issues – Adapting to major structural change

Ahmed has broad experience as a senior executive in Australia and internationally. He was appointed Managing Director and CEO of Australia Post in February 2010. Prior to joining Australia Post, he held leadership roles with National Australia Bank, Citigroup and Boston Consulting Group. Ahmed is also currently the Chairman of the Rip Curl Group and Chairman of the Council for Australian-Arab Relations.

IAN FITZGERALD

Session: We know what you are thinking

Ian joined the Australia Public Service Commission in January 2011 as the Chief Human Capital Officer. His role involves working with APS colleagues and others to take a longer term view of the challenges and opportunities for the public service and the implications for leadership, workforce and agency capability.

Ian is responsible for the new Strategic Centre for Leadership, Learning and Development which has refreshed the leadership capability framework and the talent management process required to build a strong pipeline of APS senior executives.

Ian started his career in the justice sector including operational and strategic policy lead roles in Australia and at the Home Office in London. He has a BSc from the Australian National University and an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

PROFESSOR PAUL FRIJTERS

Session: Big Thinkers – Behavioural economics as a people management tool

Paul is a Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland and an adjunct professor at the Australian National University’s Research School of Social Sciences.

He is also a Research Director of the Rumici Project. The project monitors rural to urban migration in China and Indonesia.

Paul holds a Ph.D. on welfare and well-being in Russia from the University of Amsterdam. He has a wide range of research interest, specialising in happiness, labour market, health economics and econometrics. His recent research into rural-urban migration in China produced new evidence and a prediction that China would be the largest economy in the world with the next 10 years.

PROFESSOR ED GLAESER

Session: Public administration and the urban world [Video Link]

Ed is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He is Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Director of the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston. He teaches urban and social economics and microeconomic theory.

He has published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and law and economics. In particular, his work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. His most recent book is: Triumph of the City – How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Healthier, and Happier.

DR JOHN PATRICK GREENE

Session: Public administration in history

Dr Greene is Chief Executive Officer of Museum Victoria which comprises the Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, Immigration Museum, Royal Exhibition Building and the IMAX Theatre.

Patrick is the Chair of the Council of Australasian Museum Directors, Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Honorary Professorial Fellow with the University of Melbourne, Chair of the National Cultural Heritage Committee, a member of the Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee and Committee of Melbourne, and an ambassador for Club Melbourne.

He is also a Fellow of the Tourism Society, Museums Assocation and the Institute of Public Administration Australia. He was vote CEO of the Year at the 2011 Australain Human Resource Institute Awards.

NICHOLAS GRUEN

Session: Big Thinkers

Nicholas has advised two Cabinet Ministers, sat on the Productivity Commission and served at the Building Code of Australia. He is founder of economic policy consultancy Lateral Economics and Peach Financial. He is a frequent newspaper columnist and media commentator and a prolific blogger at Club Troppo.

Nicholas is also a board member of Sustainability Victoria and the Federal Government’s Innovation Australia. He was a member of the Cutler review into Australian Innovation and chaired the Federal Government’s Government 2.0 Taskforce.

BETSY HARRINGTON

Session: What do they really think of us?

Betsy has served in executive leadership positions across multiple functions, industries and government, including assignments with BHP Billiton, the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction & Recovery Authority (VBRRA), Alcoa, Honeywell and the Faculty Management Consultants. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree and has graduated from The Wharton School ED Program.

GREG HYWOOD

Session: Big Thinkers – Rapid change

Greg is a former Executive Director of Policy in the Victorian Government’s Department of the Premier and Cabinet and is currently CEO of Fairfax Media, one of Australia’s largest media organisations. He is a Walkley award-winning journalist and has reported on business and both business and foreign politics for the Australian Financial Review for nearly 17 years.

ARMANDO IANNUCCI [United Kingdom]

Session: It’s funny because it is true…

Armando Iannucci is a British satirist who devised, directs and writes The Thick of It, the much applauded political satire-cum-farce for BBC television, which is now in its third series. Set in a fictional British government department, it depicts an incompetent Cabinet Minister who is being manipulated by a cynical Press Officer. His Oscar nominated film, In the Loop, premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Utah in 2009.

His most recent television series Veep is set in the office of a fictional US Vice President. In June 2011, Iannucci received the Writers’ Guild of Britain Award and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Glasgow to recognise his contribution to film and television.

He was Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at Oxford University, delivering a series of lectures on Television comedy and New Media and delivered the Tate Britain Lecture for 2006 and The Philharmonia Society Lecture of 2007.

Armando will draw on his unique experience to discuss why the portrayal of public administration and politics in popular culture matters.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TESS LEA

Session: Big Thinkers – What an anthropologist sees in public administration

Anthropologist Tess is an ARC QEII Research Fellow in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. Tess specialises in social policy assemblages across health, housing and education portfolios. Her current body of work focuses on the question ‘Can there be good policy in regional and remote Australia?’

 

ROLET LORETAN [Belgium]

Session: Building public administration in our region

Rolet holds a Master of Law from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and is also a graduate of the Institute of Advance Studies in Public Administration in Lausanne.

Having spent most of his career at the Swiss Federal Administration, occupying various management positions within the departments of Defence and Justice, he took office as Director General of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences, with headquarters in Brussels, on 1 November 2006.

LANE MASTERTON

Session: Demographics – Background to changes

Lane was appointed as the Regional Director of the Victorian Office in July 2010 after holding Senior Executive roles within the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Information Technology and Household and Business Collection Services.

In this current role, Lane is responsible for the overall management of the Victorian Office. The Victorian Office has approximately 250 staff located in Melbourne and another 210 survey interviewers across Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.

JIM McGOWAN AM

Session: Lessons for Public Administration from disaster response

Jim is the recently retired Director General of the Queensland Department of Community Safety, which includes having responsibility for the Queensland Ambulance Service, Queensland Fire and Rescue Service, Emergency Management Queensland and Queensland Corrective Services. He led the Department’s response to some of the most devastating natural disasters in Queensland’s history, including recent floods, cyclones and bushfires.

CARMEL McGREGOR

Session: Public sector leadership showcase

Carmel is the Deputy Secretary People Strategies and Policy in the Department of Defence. She joined the Department of Defence in March 2012.

Carmel’s previous position was that of Deputy Australian Public Service Commissioner.

Carmel is currently Australia’s representative on the OECD’s Public Governance Committee. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute, Acting President of the Institute of Public Administration Australia in the ACT, a member of the Australian Institute of Training and Development and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Carmel is originally from Queensland and holds an Arts degree with majors in psychology and sociology from the University of Queensland.

DR ORLANDO S. MERCADO [Philippines]

Session: Building public administration in our region

Dr Mercado is Professor of Public Administration at the University of the Philippines and Secretariat-General of the Eastern Regional Organisation of Public Administration, which represents states, groups and individuals in Asia and the Pacific. He has been a broadcaster, senator and senior government minister in the Philippines. He was also the first permanent representative of the Philippines to ASEAN.

PETER MITCHELL

Session: Is this what I signed up for?

Peter has a unique perspective on public administration and immigration issues. He worked for the Commonwealth Department of Immigration from 1990 to 2003 as a long-term Compliance Officer. He later rose to Manager of the Kosovar and East Timoriese ‘Operation Safe Haven’ in 1999 and Manager of the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. He is the author of Compassionate Bastard, an insider’s account of the dilemmas inherent in a job that deprives people of their liberty through the application of Australian Law.

TERRY MORAN AC

Session: Big Thinkers – Reforming to create value

Terry was, until very recently, Australia’s most senior public administrator. As Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, he chaired the Advisory Group on the Reform of Australian Government Administration which developed a comprehensive blueprint for reform of the Australian Public Service.

PROFESSOR ALAN NANKERVIS

Session: Big ideas and public sector performance management

Alan is an Associate Professor of Human Resource Managemetn at RMIT University, and an Adjunct Professor of HRM at Curtin Business School. He has worked at universities in the UK, Canada, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, China and Sydney.

Alan is the co-author of ten books on HRM and management, and has been researching the relationship between performance management and organisational effectiveness for fifteen years.

PROFESSOR MEREDITH NEWMAN [United States]

Session: Is this what I signed up for?

Meredith is Professor and Chair of Public Administration, Florida International University. She previously served with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs, the U.S. Department of State, and the World Bank.

Her two recent books focus on the emotive aspects of work. Meredith is Past President of the American Society for Public Administration and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

DR. CLAIRE NOONE

Session: Sharpening the regulatory toolkit

Dr. Claire Noone was appointed as the Executive Director Consumer Affairs, Department of Justice in June 2008. Prior to taking up the role of Director CAV, Claire was Executive Director Corporate Services for the Department of Justice. She has held various positions across both Federal and State government and the private sector.

These positions have assisted Claire to gain significant experience in corporate and regulatroy strategy and policy development and implementation.

TIM ORTON

Session: Public sector leadership showcase

Tim is founder and managing director of Nous Group, the largest privately owned Australian management consulting and leadership development firm.

Tim works widely across sectors of the Australian economy including health and human services, financial services, utilities and the environment, education and economic growth, security and intelligence, infrastructure, technology and the arts.

Tim has honours degrees in Engineering from the University of Melbourne and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

DR. MICHELLE PAUTZ [United States]

Session: Public administrators on the silver screen

Dr. Pautz is from the University of Dayton, Ohio where she teaches in the Masters of Public Administration program. As well as researching domestic environmental policy, she has a particular interest in how administrators are portrayed in popular culture. In a unique research project with IPAA, she will present the first ever comparative study on how public administrators are depicted in the top 100 Australian and Hollywood films.

ANDREW PODGER AO

Session: Public sector leadership showcase

Andrew is Professor of Public Policy at the Australian National University, he is also an adjunct professor at Griffith University and Xi’an Jiao Tong University. Andrew’s expertise lies in social policy and public management.

Andrew was National President of the Institute of Public Administration Australia from 2005 to 2010.

He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

NIGEL POOLE

Session: Working in contested space

Nigel is Acting Group Executive, Information Sciences at CSIRO. He is a member of CSIRO’s Executive team, and reports to the Chief Executive, Dr Megan Clark.

Information Sciences carries out research in the areas of information and communication technology, mathematics, informatics and statistics, and radio astronomy. It also delivers all computing, network and data storage for CSIRO facilities around Australia.

PROFESSOR PAUL POSNER [United States]

Session: Big Thinkers – Opportunities in a time of fiscal austerity

Professor Posner is the Director of the Public Administration Program at the George Mason University. He led the budget and public finance work of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) for 14 years before coming to George Mason. During the period, he led GAO’s work developing long term models of the federal budget, outlining opportunities for reform in major federal programs, and recommending changes to the budget process to provide greater visibility to long term issues.

PROFESSOR JOS C.N. RAADSCHELDERS [United States]

Session: Napoleon and public administration in history

Jos Raadschelders is professor of public administration at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University. He is also affiliated as professor with the Institute of Public Administration, University of Leiden in the Netherlands. His research interests include epistemology of public administration, administrative history, and civil service systems.

JEREMY REYNOLDS

Session: Demographics – Background to changes

Jeremy is Manager, Demographic Research at Victoria’s Department of Planning and Community Development. He has 41 years experience in urban and regional planning and research.

The higlight of his career was receiving a scholarship award from IPAA in 1998 for a report called From Doughnut City to Cafe Society.

DENNIS RICHARDSON AO

Session: Public Administration – Confidential

Dennis commenced as Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 13 January 2010. He has been a career public servant since 1969 when he joined Australia’s foreign service. He has served in Nairobi, Port Moresby and Jakarta. He was Ambassador of Australia to the United States from 2005 – 2009.

Prior to this appointment, he served as Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation from October 1996. From 1993 – 1996 he was Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs.

In 2003, Dennis was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).

KAY RUNDLE

Session: Citizen engagement in hard decisions

Kay has an interesting mix of qualifications – she started life as a social worker, then completed a degree in computing , finishing up with a Masters in Business. She has worked in Local Government for over 25 years in nine different Councils.

Kay was the first elected president of Local Government Professionals, an organisation formed to provide local government staff with opportunities for professional development.

Kay was the first female to be appointed as the Chief Executive Officer for the City of Greater Geelong and in 2008 won a Local Government Leadership Award. She was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer with the City of Port Phillip in 2009.

CATH SMITH

Session: Public Administration and the Big Society

Cath was CEO of the Victorian Council of Social Service from September 2002 until May 2012. She has over 27 years full-time experience in the non-government sector.

She is currently the Director of Social Performance at Futureye, a strategy consulting business. Cath has an honours degree in environmental science and is about to finish a Masters in Strategic Foresight.

DR NEVILLE SMITH

Session: Working in contested space

Dr Smith is a Deputy Director with the Bureau of Meteorology and is responsible for the Bureau’s Research and Systems Division, including the national observing system and communications and high-performance computing infrastructure.

Neville is also a member of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change Bureau and national focal point for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.

 

MALCOLM SNOW

Session: Public Administration and the urban world

Malcolm is one of Australia’s leading urban designers and placemakers acknowledged for his advocacy for better cities. With qualifications in urban planning and landscape architecture and a career spanning more than 35 years, Malcolm has led major city revitalization projects throughout Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom. He is an advisor to international, state and local governments on urban design and city planning and accepted regular invitations to act as juror on major public design competitions.

Malcolm is currently the General Manager of Design and Placemaking and is focused on maintaining Places Victoria’s leadership position in urban renewal.

Malcolm is the immediate past Chairman of the Place Leaders Association, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He has been the recipient (with others) of the Australia Award for Urban Design in 1996 and 2011.

PETER SHERGOLD AC

Session: Big Thinkers – New ways of working

Peter is Macquarie Group Foundation Professor at the Centre for Social Impact and is the new head of the New South Wales Public Service Commission. From 2003 to 2008, he was Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

 

HELEN SILVER

Session: Building a public service that can adapt to economic, technological and social change

Helen is Secretary of Victoria’s Department of Premier and Cabinet. She leads the Department, and the Victorian Public Service more generally, in advising and serving the Premier and Government of Victoria. Prior to her current position, she was a member of the Council of Australian Governments’ Reform Council, established to monitor progress of COAG reforms agreed between the Commonwealth, State Governments and Local Governments.

KATIE SOMERVILLE

Session: Public administration and fashion

Katie has worked with a range of fashion and textile collections for close to 20 years. She is currently the Curator of Australian Fashion and Textiles at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Katie is responsible for the research and development of the collections and the ongoing program of publications and exhibitions for the Fashion and Textiles Gallery.

SONJA STEWART

Session: Change Management

Sonja Stewart is the Deputy Commissioner, Public Service Commission in the New South Wales Government. Prior to joining the Commission in February 2012 she was the Divisional Director of the Communities and Early Years Division, Department of Family and Community Services. She joined the NSW Government as a Director of Strategic Projects in the Premier’s Department in January 2002 from the Commonwealth’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, where she was the NSW State Policy Manager.

PROFESSOR HELEN SULLIVAN

Session: Public administration and the Big Society

Helen is Professor and Director of the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne.

Her research focuses on changing state-society relations and modes of interaction. She has published widely on questions of public policy, public governance and public service reform in both academic and practitioner media.

DR ALFRED TAT-KEI HO [United States]

Session: Citzen engagement in hard decisions

Dr Alfred Ho is a faculty member of the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on performance budgeting, citizen engagement, and e-government, and he has advised state and local officials in the USA and China. The City of Indianapolis in the USA declared June 17, 2012 ‘Dr Alfred Ho Day’ because of his contribution to the City’s performance management and citizen engagement efforts.

DR SHASHI THAROOR [ India]

Session: Garran Oration

Dr Tharoor is a former UN Under-Secretary-General and Indian Minister of State for External Affairs. India’s central and state government employ 10 million public administrators, serving a population of 1.2 billion people. Dr Tharoor will examine the challenges of administering in both a super-state and in the international arena.

FRAN THORN

Session: We know what you are thinking

Fran was appointed Secretary of the Department of Health, which was created in August 2009 to ensure an intergrated approach to health, mental health and aged care.

Between 2007 and 2009, Fran was Secretary of the Department of Human Services, the predecessor to the Department of Health and which ecompassed health, community services, housing, aged care, disability and emergency management.

Fran has held a range of other senior positions within: the department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Deveolpment ; the Department of Sustainablity and Environment ; and the Department of Premier and Cabient.

In 2006 she was elected President of the Victorian branch of the Institute of Public Administration Australia.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ANNE TIERNAN

Session: Lessons for Public Administration from disater to response

Dr. Anne Tiernan is an Associate Professor in the School of Governement and International Relations at Griffith University and a Faculty Member with the Australian and New Zealand School of Governement (ANZSOG).

She is author of Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities (with Patrick Wller, Melbourne University Press, 2010) and Power Without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard (UNSW Press, 2007)

KAREN WEBSTER

Session: Public administration and fashion

Karen is an advocate for the Melbourne fashion industry and is the Fashion Program Director at RMIT, playing a pivotal role in influencing what the industry might look like in the future.

Prior to her career at RMIT, Karen worked as a fashion designer for over ten years in London, Melbourne and Sydney. From 2005 to 2012, Karen took leave from RMIT to be the Director of the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, which grew under her stewardship to unprecedented levels making it a landmark event on the Melbourne cultural calendar.

Karen has sat on numerous boards which currently include the Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia, Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, Balletlab and the Federal Government Committee for the Positive Body Image Awards.

 

JENNIFER WESTACOTT

Session: Big Thinkers – Doing public administration better…

Jennifer took up the role of Chief Executive at the Business Council of Australia in April 2011. Previously, she was a Director and National Lead Partner at KPMG following more than 20 years working in senior executive roles in New South Wales and Victorian Governments.

She has held positions as the Director of Housing and the Secretary of Education in Victoria, and most recently was the Director-General of the New South Wales Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources.

JAMES WHELAN

Session: Public Administration and the Big Society

James is the Research Director for Public Service Research Program at the Centre for Policy Development. James’ research history includes lecturing and leading social science research programs with several universities and research institutions on topics including deliberative governance, environmental politics and social movements.

He has published widely and contributed to national and international conferences. James has also been a campaigner and strategist with social and environmental justice organisations and networks. He is founder-director of the Change Agency, a not-for-profit education and action research initiative that supports progressive social movements in the Asia-Pacific region.

PAM WHITE PSM

Session: Lessons for Public Administration from disater response

Pam was head of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority, created by Commonwealth and Victorian Governments to oversee and coordinate the largest recovery and rebuilding program Victoria has ever faced. The 2009 Victorian bushfires were the worst in Australia’s history, devastated 109 communities across the state, destroyed more than 2,000 homes and damaged around 430,000 hectares of land. By the time the fires were contained, 173 people had lost their lives, many others were seriously injured and more than 3,400 properties were destroyed or damaged.

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