I help you design and implement creative policy solutions and support you through organisational change to achieve your objectives.

What I do

Provide advice in relation to government administration with particular expertise in immigration and border protection, social and community services, regulatory activities and budget strategy.

Policy analysis and advice

I come to you, listen to what you would like to achieve, analyse the situation using contemporary tools of public policy and provide strictly confidential advice on your options and implementation plans.

Program design and evaluation

I help you design effective programs to achieve desired policy outcomes with least cost or I help you evaluate your existing programs to improve their cost effectiveness.

Organisational and cultural change

I work with you and your staff to design and implement organizational and cultural change required to improve the performance of your organization or to meet government objectives arising from machinery of government changes.

Leadership development

I help your executive and senior executive leaders navigate through ever changing and fast moving environment of organizational change.

My Background

I have over thirty years of professional experience advising governments around the world. I held senior positions in the Australian Public Service and led international expert advisory teams on some of the most difficult and challenging post conflict developmental missions in countries such as Solomon Islands and Bosnia. From 2013 to 2016 I was a senior official in the Australian Department of Immigration and Border protection managing Australia’s global Refugee and Humanitarian program including Australia’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria.

From 2008 to 2013, I was the First Assistant Secretary, Migration and Visa Policy Division in the Department of Immigration and Citizenship. My responsibilities during this time included policy and program design as well as management of all permanent and temporary migration visa programs. I was instrumental in developing the departmental capability to forecast and manage net overseas migration (NOM), a key contributor to population growth in Australia. I also led the development and the implementation of a number of Australia’s global online visa systems such as SkillSelect and E-Visitor. I lead the transformation of the Australia’s international education visa system and the Australia’s foreign workers visa system introducing a number of integrity measures such as market salary requirement for foreign workers and genuine entrant provisions and streamlined processing for accredited providers of international education. In 2008 I designed and led the implementation of the Pacific Seasonal Labour Scheme.

Before joining the Department of Immigration and Citizenship in 2007, I worked as a senior economic advisor in Treasury and in a number of other Australian government agencies including Prime Minister & Cabinet and Social Security. In 2000 and 2001 I was part of the Joint Prime Ministerial Taskforce on Bilateral Relationship between Australia and NZ which resulted in the new bilateral relationship framework between two countries. My educational background includes Masters of Economics and Graduate Diploma in Public Policy degrees from Belgrade University and the Australian National University. I have published articles on economic and public policy issues in various professional journals in Australia and Europe.

Get in touch

I can help governments and government agencies at all levels looking to set up new or improve existing policies and programs.

I also have expertise in helping business organisations looking to set up and grow business ventures that are dependent on government programs and policies or are partnering with government to deliver public services.