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London, England, Gb

York, England, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

• Led joint departmental initiatives in response to No.10 & Secretary of State commissions, which were received favourably and completed to tight politically driven timelines.• Led the mortgages and lender relations team encouraging the development of products and building consensus across government for our desired policies and goals. • Drafted multiple Ministerial submissions, including the brief for a trilateral Ministerial meeting in which the Ministers agreed to all our asks.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Shaped the organisation's strategic direction.• Developed practices and procedures for a new function.• Driving adoption of end-to-end, semi-automated and evidence-based approaches to research and reporting.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

• Provided economics and business case consulting services.• Created a fully referenced costing model for closing the gap between indigenous and others eye health in rural and remote Western Australia.

• Reformed Australia's foreign investment framework through directing new legislation, IT systems, functions, and compliance strategies.• Drove changes to national programs through creating a data analysis unit, directing its pioneering research, and using its output to make the case for change• Developed and implemented the strategic plan for assessing the national interest of proposed investments and managed the liaison function with the Foreign Investment Review Board.• Directed the creation of the Foreign Investment in Residential Real Estate function• Increased revenue by tens of millions through initiating, creating, and making use of the first real time cost-benefit model used in taxpayer negotiations. It also sped them up.• Secured retrospective legislative change to the taxing of multinationals by developing and making the case to Treasury.• Managed part of the program and presented to Chinese and Indonesian delegations.

Melbourne, Australia

• Managed multiple projects to time and budget, including their design, team selection, stakeholder management and reporting. • Resolved a dispute between the Health and Treasury Departments by developing improvements in how to measure public hospital productivity, which previous consultants engaged on the same task were unable to do.• Helped secure funding of reforms to children’s services in Tasmania by modelling different options.• Helped secure funding of reform to disability services in Tasmania by drafting the business case.

Melbourne, Australia

• Drove improvements to Council of Australian Governments (COAG) performance indicators by influencing jurisdiction representatives and managing working groups.• Improved performance indicators and their conceptual frameworks through drafting chapters of the Report on Government Services and sections of the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report.• Provided thought leadership into the report on assessing Local Government Revenue Raising Capacity.

Canberra, Australia

• Helped design the practices and procedures for a new 24/7/365 national security watch office with initial reaction and research function.• Produced regular research and reporting on threats to Australia’s national interest, which were commentated on favourably by police chiefs and sister agencies overseas.• The Director-General said one of my actions "Justifies the cost of your entire unit for the year".

Sydney, Australia

• Conducted literature reviews and meta-analysis of the effect of disease management programs and used this to model their impact on HCF costs and member health.• Developing a generic computer simulation into which key assumptions and data could be entered to reveal the expected costs and benefits to HCF.• After I left, the HCF Medical Director offered me a permanent position.

Sydney, Australia

• Represented the NSW Medical Colleges on two Ministerial Advisory Committees.• Produced the first joint Committee of Chairmen and NSW Health publication, Clinician’s Toolkit for Improving Patient Care.• Enhanced the system wide rate of quality improvement by securing qualified legal privilege for peer review meetings.• Following the collapse of the major professional indemnity provider I brought the issue of increasing insurance fees to the attention of NSW Health. Tort law reforms were implemented before the media recognised the issue. This improved clinician retention, resulting in better services, happier clinicians and less pressure on the Minister.

Sydney

• Advocated moving into online market research and developed a suite of tools to achieve this. The online business became so profitable that the organisation changed its name to AMR Interactive.• Designed and directed multiple market research studies. My role included designing surveys, analysing data, managing projects, client liaison, drafting and presenting reports.

Sydney, Australia

• Helped the organization move from being budget funded to operating in a contestable market.

Sydney, Australia

• Reviewed the scope for realigning State and Commonwealth responsibilities in the provision of Children’s services. The Report was used to determine the NSW position at Council of Australian Government meetings.• Reviewed the NSW VisionCare program. My review was used by the Department as an example of best practice in such studies.• Conducted a study into the cost-effectiveness of alternative modes of child abuse prevention.

Sydney

• Tutored in the Master of Public Health program at Sydney University.• Participated in a study using quality adjusted life years (QALY) to compare domiciliary to ward based chemotherapy.• Presented papers and drafted one published in the academic literature.

Perth, Australia

• Analysed and evaluated legal, economic and policy issues.• Prepared background and briefing papers for the Senator.• Drafted articles for the Federal Round.• Represented the Senator in meetings with his Parliamentary colleagues and other senior officials.• Monitored legislation going through Parliament.