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The Commission conducts regular breakfast seminars for APS senior executives. These seminars provide you with a forum to hear and interact with leading speakers on contemporary issues which are directly relevant to your work. They also offer an opportunity to meet with your colleagues on a regular basis.
Next event: 20 July 2009 - The benefits of Randomised Policy Trials
Professor Andrew Leigh, Australian National University
Programme overview
Randomised trials are an established evaluation tool elsewhere, yet ramin rare in Australian policymaking. Andrew will argue that they should be at the heart of any serious commitment to 'evidence-based policymaking'.
About the speaker
Andrew Leigh is a professor in the Economics Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His current research is in the field of labour economics, public economics and the economics of elections.
Future breakfast seminars
We are always keen to hear your suggestions about how we can make the SES breakfast series even better. Please let us know if there are speakers you would like to hear.
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Upcoming seminars
4 August 2009
Implication of a pandemic for Australia - Professor Peter Collignon, Director of Infectious Diseases and Microbiolgoy, Canberra Hospital
Past events
12 June 2009
Investing in a downturn - Mark Lelliott and Marianne Broadbent, EWK International
19 May 2009
Responding to Climate Change and the Global Financial Crisis - Don Henry, Executive Director, Australian Conservation Foundation
8 May 2009
Privacy: where do we draw the line? - Senator the Hon. John Faulkner, Cabinet Secretary,
Special Minister of State, and Vice-President of the Executive
Council speaks on privacy and the impact of new technologies
28 April 2009
How could a Human Rights Act lead to better Government? - The Hon Catherine Branson QC, President, Australian Human Rights Commission
3 April 2009
ICT for Organisational Transformation - Peter Weill, Chairman, Sloan Center for Information Systems Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
27 March 2009
Social Inclusion agenda - Clare Martin, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS).
6 November 2008
The ABC’s Digital Future - Mark Scott, Managing director of the ABC.
8 October 2008
Standards Australia’s New Business Model — new pathways to a regulatory alternative - Mr John Tucker, Chief Executive Officer, Standards Australia
12 September 2008
Integrated ethical considerations into strategic thinking - Dr Simon Longstaff, Executive Director, St James Ethics Centre.
30 July 2008
Water in Australia – the big issues - Mr Ken Matthews AO Chair and Chief Executive of the National Water Commission.
6 June 2008
Leadership Beyond Authority: Perspectives from the UK public service - Robin Ryde, Chief Executive, UK National School of Government and author ''.
Copies of presentations from past events are, when available, at our Media pages
Further information
For more details please contact the Commission on 02 6202 3783.
