Joe leads complex reviews, strategy and development for clients in and around government. Clients value Joe’s clear conceptual thinking, structured problem solving and compelling communication. Joe is also a sought after facilitator and presenter. Proud to be an ‘expert generalist’ Joe works across education, industry and other policy areas.

Influential work:

• Worked with a leading not for profit to make a ~$30m investment in capability building and service delivery initiatives to break cycles of disadvantage in Australia. 

• Led dandolo’s review of career education in Victorian government schools. dandolo recommendations resulted in $108m reprioritisation of funding and a transformation of service delivery. 

• Reviewed the implementation of the high profile Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education, and other ITE reforms, including alternative pathways. 

• Provided a first principles argument for where and when State government should invest in infrastructure, including implications for developer contributions. 

• Supported a place-based initiative in regional Victoria to successfully seek ‘backbone’ funding from State government. 

• Designed an evaluation framework and strategy for one of Australia’s largest philanthropic organisations. 

• Evaluated a range of interlinked technology projects for a State education system, and provided advice on potential responses. 

• Modelled complex aspects of the early childhood sector, including workforce supply and demand, and implications of COVID for demand. 

• Developed an evidence-based argument to a state government for new funding to medical research institutes. This resulted in the first successful request for funding change in eleven years. 

• Supported a coalition of paediatric medical research organisations to develop a strategy for precision medicine and to secure >$20m in funding to deliver this. 

• Led a top to bottom organisational review of a state Department of Education. 

• Reviewed the professional development programs offered by a state education department to the teaching workforce. The review resulted in significant reprioritisation of resources and the establishment of a new Academy to provide high quality PD. 

Prior to dandolo Joe worked as:

• a public policy consultant in a Big 4 firm,

• an advisor to the New Zealand minister for communications and ICT during a period of unprecedented structural reform and government investment in telecommunications

• a policy analyst on telecommunications and sustainable energy.

Joe has a first-class honours arts degree in Public Policy from Victoria University of Wellington. At university Joe was a champion debater and was national president and founding member of UN Youth NZ.