Mark Schultz

• Led a performance improvement of a state child protection system, including strategising to increase the number of children who could be protected by the system while reducing the number of unnecessary reports made
• Led a project on behalf of a state central agency to design a new information sharing system for organisations engaging vulnerable children and families, leveraging existing capabilities and applying them to achieve the government’s aims.
• Led a project to improve the performance and reduce the cost of a program to deliver vocational education and training to high school students, identifying opportunities to streamline delivery and thereby improve class attendance and significantly reduce delivery costs
• Led a functional and efficiency review of a major Australian agency, identifying significant potential savings and improving performance
• Worked with a major university to assess the merits of its potential acquisition of a large further education provider.

Mark was formerly a policy advisor at the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, and before that a management consultant and lawyer in the People practice of PwC. He is a 2017 Australian Delegate of the Australia Vietnam Young Leadership Dialogue and was admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He is currently a board member of Amenifree, an education-focused start-up; and was previous a board member of the Monash University Faculty of Law.

Mark relaxes through creative writing and tinkering with small business ventures. He participates actively in the political life of the South-East Asian region through ‘Track 2’ diplomatic forums and programs.