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’.

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.

Amity Durham is the Deputy Secretary, Strategy and Planning in the Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria. The division develops and drives cross-portfolio strategies and reforms that integrate approaches to health and human services, support evidence-based decision-making on activities to advance government priorities and make progress towards departmental outcomes. The Division is also responsible for strategic corporate functions such as data analysis and forecasting, corporate planning and budget, corporate reporting, intergovernmental relations and communication and media. Since joining the department in October 2016 Amity has been responsible for delivering Victoria’s first social impact bonds with Sacred Heart Mission and Anglicare, policy and service reform for people with complex needs at risk of violence, and driving the department’s broader reform agenda in response to the Royal Commission in to Family Violence