Meredith Edwards AM, FASSA, FIPAA is Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra (UC), Australia. She was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UC and Director of its National Institute for Governance, 1997-2004 and a senior policy adviser in the Australian Public Service involved in a range of major social policy reforms across several departments, rising to Deputy Secretary in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Meredith was a member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration, 2010-17 and she authored Social Policy, Public Policy: from problem to practice (Routledge, 2001), and co-authored Public Sector Governance in Australia (ANU Press, 2012).