Robyn Mildon PhD is the founding executive director of the Centre for Evidence and Implementation (CEI). Robyn is an internationally recognised leader with a long standing career focused on the implementation, mainstreaming, and scaling-up of evidence to achieve social impact for children, families and communities in a range of health and human service areas. She has lead several national, ongoing initiatives aimed at improving the selection, and use of, evidence to in real-world service and policy settings. In addition to her Australian-based work, Robyn has built a portfolio of projects collaborating with both government and non-government agencies in countries such as Singapore, Norway, Sweden, the USA, the UK and New Zealand, and has been a keynote speaker at multiple events around the globe. Robyn is the co-chair of the Global Evidence and Implementation Summit 2018, was the founding chair of the Scientific Program Committee for the first and second Australian Implementation Conference (AIC), and co-chair for the third Biennial Australasian Implementation Conference. She is also the founding co-chair of the Knowledge Translation and Implementation Group with the Campbell Collaboration. Robyn holds an honorary Associate Professorship with the University of Melbourne.

Rory leads the Behavioural Insights Team’s work across Australia and the Asia-Pacific, and has been with BIT since its inception in 2010. He has led BI trials and policy interventions across the region in a range of policy areas, from employment and education, to health and housing. Based in Sydney since November 2012, Rory led the establishment of the New South Wales Department of Premier and Cabinet’s Behavioural Insights Unit - the first Australian agency dedicated to applying BI to public policy. He also set up and leads BIT’s Australia office, which works with a number of State and Commonwealth Departments, as well as NGOs and philanthropic bodies across the country. Rory holds a PhD in health and behaviour change from Cambridge University and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Singapore Civil Service College since 2014. Prior to joining BIT, Rory worked in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and the UK Department of Education. He is the co-author of ‘Think Small: The surprisingly simple ways to reach big goals’.

Deidre has worked in frontline roles in child protection and juvenile justice, managed regional operations across human services and lead statewide reform initiatives for the Queensland Government. Between 2004 and 2016, she worked in a number of executive roles in statutory child protection, juvenile justice and public housing in both operational and program development roles in Queensland and New South Wales. Deidre is currently Deputy Secretary, Commissioning for the human service government agency, Family and Community Services in New South Wales. In this role, Deidre is responsible for ensuring that client outcomes and the use of robust evidence and data drives the decisions about how services are delivered, monitored and improved. Deidre has provided evidence at several Commission of Inquiries, including the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. She has demonstrated her strengths in policy development and delivery implementation through her leadership of the Premier’s Priorities, Protecting Our Kids and Reducing Youth Homelessness. Deidre has a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Queensland, post-graduate management qualifications from the Queensland University of Technology and Government Executive training at the Harvard Kennedy Business School. As an inaugural participant in the NSW Public Service Commission’s Leadership Academy, Deidre has been recognised as an outstanding public sector leader.

Mr Versegi is a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) where he is currently First Assistant Secretary, Development Policy Division and Ambassador for Regional Health Security. He has previously served overseas as Minister-Counsellor, Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York; and Assistant, Executive Director’s Office, Western Pacific Constituency, World Bank, Washington. In Canberra, he has served as First Assistant Secretary, Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT; and has held various policy, program and budget positions. Mr Versegi holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney. As Ambassador for Regional Health Security, Mr Versegi advances Australia and the region's collective health security interests by focussing global attention on the needs of the Indo-Pacific, strengthening national health systems and preparing the region to respond to emerging health threats. He fosters partnerships with other governments, including emerging donors in our region, and leads Australia's engagement in the development and implementation of innovative health security solutions in international fora.

Argiri Alisandratos is the Deputy Secretary, Children and Families Reform at the Department of Health and Human Services Victoria. Argiri joined the department more than 25 years ago as a child protection practitioner. Since then Argiri has held a number of senior leadership roles within the department including: Deputy Secretary South Division, Chief Operations Transformation Officer; Director, Southern Melbourne Area; Director, Inner Gippsland Area; Assistant Director, Placement and Family Services in the Children, Youth and Families Division; and Manager Community Services, Loddon Mallee Region. Having been in charge of service delivery, performance and quality improvements across the geographic area of Southern Eastern Victoria, Argiri is now leading the state-wide design of the Child and Family Services system reform, under the Government’s Roadmap for Reform agenda – Strong Families, Safe Children. The Reform agenda will drive detailed design of critical system components and enablers required to deliver the service system changes envisioned in Roadmap for Reform. Argiri has extensive experience in senior leadership of policy and operations in the children and families portfolio which makes him uniquely placed to drive the implementation of the Roadmap for Reform agenda. Argiri holds a Bachelor of Social Work (Monash University), an Executive Master of Public Administration (Monash University).

Susan currently leads an early learning policy Division within the Victorian Department of Education and Training. Her Division leads the delivery of early childhood education and care programs for Victorian children, including 15 hours of kindergarten in the year before school, the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework, Transition to School and continuity of learning strategies, School Readiness Funding for Victorian kindergartens in the year before school and state-wide parenting supports such as facilitated Supported Playgroups. Susan has previously worked in the Commonwealth Departments of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Education and Training, in the areas of social policy, training and education reform.