Course facilitators

Sandy Forbes
Strategy and Public Policy, The Nous Group

Prior to joining The Nous Group Sandy held executive positions in the Victorian Public Sector. As Director of Policy and Strategic Projects in the Department of Human Services she led the development of the Forward Plan for Women's Health, the Aboriginal Services Plan and the establishment of Diversity Unit.

Sandy also developed and implemented vocational education and training reforms for the Victorian Community Sector. Sandy is a Board member of Peninsula Health.

Mike Scrafton
Principal, The Nous Group

During a 20 year career in the public sector Mike gained extensive experience at senior levels of the State and Commonwealth public sectors. He has led major organisational restructures, and was Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to successive Ministers for Defence.

Mike has qualifcations in history, governance, philosophy and economics and studied leadership and management at Harvard and Oxford.

Ian Porter
Associate, The Nous Group

Ian spent eighteen years in the Victorian Government’s energy and environment portfolios, as a policy analyst, program leader and from 2000 as the executive director in charge of the climate and sustainability policy functions of the Victorian Government.

Key policies which Ian led the development and delivery of included:

The Victorian Greenhouse Strategy (2002, The Greenhouse Challenge for Energy (2004, The Victorian Greenhouse Strategy Action Plan Update (2005). Ian’s role in greenhouse and broader environmental policy saw him involved in the wider strategic and planning functions of the Department of Sustainability and Environment as an Executive Director. He also held board positions with Victoria’s Sustainable Energy Authority (from 2000 to 2002) and the CRC for Greenhouse Accounting (2003 to 2007).

Ian brings a strong, recent and practically focussed approach to policy, bridging the research, development and implementation fields. Ian’s experience crosses the energy and climate sectors and he is widely recognised as a leading strategic thinker in this field.

Jointly presented by
The Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA Victoria)
and The Nous Group