Experienced public sector leader with:- Central Agency experience - know how decisions get made- Track record of policy delivery - most recently at the Ministry for the Environment - Success in building focused, engaged and happy teams and organisations- Fostering a huge all of government Climate network. Recent calling cards: - (Ministry for the Environment) helped to land the first emissions reduction plan, and currently preparing for the second one due in 2024. Getting the emissions reduction system in New Zealand going across iwi and hapu, business, councils, communities and households. - (Ministry for the Environment) kick started a big policy programme. Highlights include kerbside standardisation and food waste regulations; a plastics action plan including phase out of problematic plastics plus a $50m plastics innovation fund; and regulatory product stewardship schemes, 2019-2021- (Treasury) Advice to Ministers on capitalinvestment policy including $25 million-plus business cases. Brief acting manager spells in social policy. - (Treasury) Enduring Defence policy and funding model - over $70 billion in long term planning through the 2013 Defence Mid-Point Rebalancing Review and the 2016 Defence White Paper. Options to Ministers over an 18-month period.