
Regional Director, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Thea is the Regional Director for Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand at Centre for Public Impact.
She joined the CPI team in 2020.
Thea completed a Bachelor of Arts and Law at Monash University, and a Master’s of Public Policy with distinction from the London School of Economics in 2019, where she received the Peter Self Prize for best dissertation.
Thea’s experiences span the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She has worked as a commercial lawyer, a public servant, and, prior to joining CPI, at the UK’s innovation foundation, Nesta.
With a strong theoretical and practical grounding in public policy, Thea has been recognised as a thought-leader in her field. In 2019, Thea was named as one of Apolitical’s most influential public sector innovators.
Thea is also the proud mum of three beautiful children and a fur-child called Oreo.
Some of Thea’s work includes: