Alex is an award-winning leader and evaluator of transformational and internationally recognised social impact programs. Alex has expertise in education, disability, health and data science, and has developed and evaluated policies and programs across Australia and Southeast Asia. He is a well-regarded trainer and capability builder in how to develop and use strong evidence for designing policy and strategy.

Prior to joining dandolo, he was a member of the NSW Department of Education where he led a world-first initiative in assessing the learning of students with disability, for which he was awarded a New South Wales Premier’s Award and lauded by the OECD as ‘a good example of a bottom-up approach to policy making and co-construction of policies’. 

Influential work:

• Estimating government investment needed to scale diabetes treatment and monitoring technology across Australia

• Evaluating a suite of literacy and mathematics professional learning and assessment platforms for the early years of school

• Assessing the value of a major NSW medical research institute to a university partner

• Data mining analysis on the jurisdiction-level drivers of a decline in students receiving an ATAR

• Mapping the landscape of funding for health and medical research across Australia to determine patterns and trends on research grants and funding

• Financial modelling on the cost structures of long daycare centres as evidence to the Productivity Commission

• Evaluating a STEM education project and technology platform for the early years of schooling  

• Reviewing a state education department’s performance in Year 12 student outcomes  

• Developing a data-driven narrative on the educational outcomes of Aboriginal students for a state education department  

• Analysing school performance reviews to identify strategic needs for a state education department

Alex has a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Sydney and will begin a Master of Science (Research) in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney to learn how to build new AI innovations to support educators.