Chris combines experience in public policy and education to support clients to drive complex reform.
He has led project teams in the Queensland and Victorian governments, through which he has had a lasting impact leading education improvement agendas. A strong communicator, Chris has drawn on this to design and deliver state-wide professional learning programs and to facilitate consultation processes across a complex stakeholder base.
Influential work
- Developed and facilitated Queensland’s consultation strategy to inform national curricular reform
- Led a team of world-renowned academics and adult learning experts to design and deliver a two-year professional learning program for Victorian school leaders and teachers
- Project-managed Queensland state schools’ biggest change to senior schooling in 40 years, including project responses to COVID-19 disruptions
- Led evaluations of state-wide government initiatives in Victoria and Queensland.
Outside of Nous
Chris is the Secretary of the United Nations Association of Australia Queensland Young Professionals Network. He has previously taught at schools in Queensland, Nepal and the United Kingdom. Chris has volunteered with the Edmund Rice Foundation and the Royal Children’s Hospital. He is undertaking post-graduate study in international and community development at Deakin University.
In his spare time...
Chris plays Australian Rules football for his beloved Sherwood Magpies. He is a golf tragic whose hiking experience includes Mt Kilimanjaro and Everest Base Camp.
