Trish Mercer is a Visiting Fellow with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). Her diverse career in the Australian Public Service, with over 20 years at the senior executive level, spanned policy development and research, financial management, program implementation, community education and direct service delivery experience (as a Centrelink area manager for Central and North Queensland).

Trish is now involved in public policy research and executive education training. Trish co-edited Learning Policy, Doing Policy (ANU Press, 2021), exploring how theories of the policy process can be transferred and taken into practice. To promote such theory to a wider audience, Trish has worked with the Australian Public Service Commission to publish Policy Theory Bites. She also co-authored a chapter on ‘Making Public Policy’ in the Australian Politics and Public Policy Open Textbook published on-line by Sydney University Press.

Wendy Jarvie has enjoyed a diverse career, alternating as a government policy practitioner and a researcher. She spent 22 years working in the Australian Public Service, including seven years as a Deputy Secretary in the Departments of Education, Science and Training and Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. She also managed evaluations and strategy development at the World Bank in Washington between 1998 and 2001.

Wendy has been providing Executive Education classes at ANU since 2012. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Public Service Research Group at the UNSW in Canberra, where she is undertaking research on the importance of public servant agency in developing good policy. She also works for the World Bank in the Pacific on secondary education and vocational education and training projects.