Deb is currently a Director in the State Schools Division of the Queensland Department of Education working on system wide evidence-informed improvement. She dedicated her career to improving school education for young people in Australia and New Zealand as a teacher, school and system leader, and university staff member. Establishing the State Schools Evidence Hub, supporting common languages and processes are career highlights. Deb is also Australian Council of Educational Leaders Queensland Branch President.

Deb is a Director in the State Schools Division of Queensland Department of Education. She has worked in a variety of rural, remote and urban schools, as well as in distance education and regional roles. Much of her work in regions and in her current strategic role involves building capability in system and school improvement. Today, the focus of her work is on improvement through inquiry – supporting educators to use evidence-based practices and to generate practice-based evidence.

Matt is responsible for Evidence for Learning‘s strategy, fundraising and system engagement and promotion. Matt has more than 20 years’ experience in building and running enterprises in education, health and clean technology. He was involved in provisioning the first Internet services in Australian schools and developing internet management software used by thousands of schools in Australia, NZ, the UK and USA. More recently he has worked on data, identity and privacy projects for the National Schools Interoperability Program and on an online career profiling service in Higher and Vocational Education. He is also a non-executive director of the evidence efficiency platform; Covidence. Matt holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University.