Natasha Stacey »

Dr Natasha Stacey holds a PhD in anthropology from the Northern Territory University. Over the last 15 years she worked on natural resource management research and development projects across the Pacific Islands and eastern Indonesia, and more recently northern Australia, Timor Leste and Malaysia. She spent most of the 1990s conducting research into the social, cultural and economic drivers of Bajo and other Indonesian traditional fishing activity in Australian waters. During 2000- 2005 she was employed as a Community Assessment and Participation Specialist on a Global Environment Facility-funded Pacific International Waters Project based at the headquarters of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme in Samoa. For the last six years she has worked as a Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University and currently holds a Senior Research Fellow position in the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University. Recent research projects include development of alternative livelihoods for communities in the Northern Territory and West Timor, Indonesia; building local capacity for whale shark conservation in eastern Indonesia; designing a participatory monitoring framework to support joint management of Parks in the Northern Territory, and improving coastal and marine livelihoods, and fisheries management in the Arafura-Timor Seas region. Her research interests include Social, cultural and economic issues impacting on environmental values, natural resources and protected areas Approaches for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research for improved community-based resource management Participatory planning processes and facilitation, social impact assessment Bajo and Indonesian fishing activity in the Arafura and Timor seas Maritime and environmental anthropology.

Annette Michaux »

Annette Michaux is General Manager, Social Policy and Research at The Benevolent Society, a large non-profit organisation with the purpose of creating caring and inclusive communities and a just society. Annette’s role at The Benevolent Society is to drive the organisation’s focus on evidence-informed practice, research and social policy. With a professional background in social work and adult education, Annette has held a number of senior policy and operational positions in both government and non-profits. She was the Executive Officer of the NSW Child Protection Council and a member of the senior policy team at the NSW Commission for Children and Young People. Earlier in her career Annette worked as a child welfare officer and ran a large inner-city community centre in Sydney. Annette is involved in a number of board and committees promoting evidence informed practice including: the Australian Social Policy Association; Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth’s (ARACY) Knowledge Brokering Network; the NSW NGO Research Forum; the Australasian Evaluation Society; Chairing of the Australasian Evaluation Society’s 2011 International Conference.

Ann Sanson »

Ann Sanson is a professor in Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne and the Network Coordinator for the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY). She is a developmental psychologist with particular expertise in longitudinal research – she plays a leading role in both the 25-year Australian Temperament Project and Growing up in Australia (the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children). Her previous positions include Acting Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, and she currently sits on a number of national advisory committees. Her work with ARACY has a strong focus on facilitating knowledge exchange amongst researchers, policy makers and practitioners in order to promote the wellbeing of children and youth. She is a fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and has over 180 publications.

Gabriele Bammer »

Gabriele Bammer is a professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at The Australian National University and a research fellow at the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her main interest is effective ways of bringing different disciplinary and practice perspectives together to tackle major social issues, including knowledge brokering to bridge the research-policy/ practice gap. She is seeking to develop more formal processes for doing this by establishing a new specialisation – Integration and Implementation Sciences. In 2001 she was the Australian representative on the inaugural Fulbright New Century Scholars Program, which targets ‘outstanding research scholars and professionals’. She has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications.

Kate Barclay »

Kate Barclay researches the international political economy of food, focusing particularly on tuna fisheries in the Asia Pacific Region. The main themes of her work include: The socially embedded aspects of global tuna commodity chains affecting the governance of these industries, including for sustainability Economic development opportunities from tuna resources for Pacific Island countries Consequences of modernisation through fisheries, including effects on ethnic identities and nature-society interactions Histories of tuna fisheries development, particularly in Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, and Pacific Island countries The international relations of fisheries management Kate has acted as researcher for several reports for governments and international organisations, including: 1) a study of global canned tuna trade flows used by WWF in developing their international campaigns (2008), 2) an overview of economic opportunities in fisheries and aquaculture for the Solomon Islands Government trade policy (commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme, 2008); and 3) a review of the development gains from a multilateral fisheries treaty (the Federated States of Micronesia Agreement, commissioned by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, 2007). Her major publications have included a book on modernization and ethnic identity issues surrounding A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific (Routledge 2008), a survey of economic development from tuna industries in six Pacific Island countries in Capturing Wealth From Tuna (ANU Press, 2007), and a feature-length documentary of southern bluefin tuna industries in Australia and Japan Rich Fish (self-published, 2004). Her recent work looks at tuna supply chains, for canned and smoked tuna, and for sashimi markets, considering the role of culturally and historically shaped practices as they affect international attempts to regulate fishing. Kate teaches in the International Studies Program at the University of Technology Sydney.

Anne Tiernan »

Anne Tiernan is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University. She is Director of postgraduate and executive programs in policy analysis and public administration in Griffith’s School of Government and International Relations. Tiernan's research interests include: policy advice, executive governance, policy capacity, federalism and intergovernmental coordination. She is author of several books including: Lessons in Governing: A Profile of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff and The Gatekeepers: Lessons from Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff (both with R.A.W. Rhodes, Melbourne University Publishing, 2014), Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities (with Patrick Weller, Melbourne University Press, 2010) and Power Without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard (UNSW Press, 2007). Tiernan is a member of the Member of the Public Records Review Committee of the Queensland State Archives and serves on the Board of Directors of St Rita’s College Ltd. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Queensland Public Service Commission. Tiernan consults regularly to Australian governments at all levels.

Jennifer Menzies »

Jennifer Menzies is a Director with the consultancy Policy Futures and a Commissioner with the Commonwealth Grants Commission. A former senior executive and Cabinet Secretary within the Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet, she has over 20 years’ experience in both state and commonwealth governments. From 2007 to 2009 she was the inaugural Secretary for the Council for the Australian Federation. She consults in the field of public policy and governance and has published in the fields of caretaker conventions, federalism and intergovernmental relations. She is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University.

Jules Wills »

Dr Wills is Director International Alumni at the University of Canberra: he holds a Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies from CCAE, and a Masters Degree in Public Administration and PhD in Public Sector Management from UC. Jules served 23 years in the Royal Australian Air Force and 13 years in the Australian Public Service before moving fulltime to UC in 2000. During several years as a UC Senior Lecturer in business and government, he served as Director of the Center for Research in Public Sector Management and Academic Director of the National Institute for Governance. He was also Convenor of the Command, Leadership and Management and RAN MBA programs for the Australian Command and Staff Course, Australian Defence College at Weston, ACT, and Convenor of the Doctorate in Business Administration. In 2003, he founded the China Management Studies Unit and became the Director, Professional Management Programs in 2004 where he revamped the PMP programs, expanded its APS operations and developed a comprehensive network of international training connections. He was appointed Director of the newly combined Marketing and International group in November 2007 and up to March 2011 in this role was responsible for domestic and international marketing and recruiting, brand and publishing, centralised management of transnational education for UC and coordinating international training at UC and overseas. Jules became Director International Alumni in 2011.

John Halligan »

John Halligan is a Research Professor of Government and Public Administration, School of Business and Government, University of Canberra, Australia. His research interests are comparative public management and governance, specifically public sector reform, performance management and government institutions. He specialises in the Anglophone countries of Australia and New Zealand, and for comparative purposes, Canada and the United Kingdom. Current studies are Corporate Governance in the Public Sector, Performance Management, and a comparative analysis of public management. John Halligan’s recent co-authored books are Managing Performance: International Comparisons, Routledge, London, 2007; and Parliament in the 21st Century, Melbourne University Press, 2007.