Andrew works at the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts. A 2015 Churchill Fellow, he has extensive experience in climate, transport, safety, health and environmental policy development, as well as governance, planning and evaluation.

His research explores how policy bureaucrats manage uncertainty in the Australian Public Service. By combining analysis of policy responses to COVID-19 with examination of routine policy challenges, the research investigates how bureaucrats make decisions in uncertain environments and thin markets. It highlights how the legacy of New Public Management reforms has influenced contemporary policy practice and the language used to describe policy problems.

The research identifies the emergence of new forms of stewardship that help explain how bureaucrats balance competing demands while maintaining public value in increasingly complex policy environments. It also proposes a framework for understanding policy stewardship that accounts for both complexity and accountability requirements.

Supervisors: Professor Ariadne Vromen, Dr Laura Davy and Associate Professor Michael Di Francesco.