Speakers

Professor Mark Considine is an Australian political scientist, who specialises in public sector governance, and the reform of social services. In 2024, he became Co-Director of the Australian Welfare and Work Lab at the University of Melbourne. Mark is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia [and the Institute of Public Administration Australia. Mark has achieved prize-winning research on public sector reform, new methods of governance and the street-level delivery of public programs. Mark has also worked with state and federal governments in the design of social services and strategies for place-based innovation.