John Cahill

Background

About John Cahill

John has wide ranging policy, program, operations, service delivery and corporate management knowledge and experience, including more than 23 years experience as a senior executive with various federal government departments and agencies. His most recent roles have involved the leadership and management of major projects and the delivery of challenging and complex services across Australia and in Australia's partner countries in relation to highly sensitive and contested policy development and implementation. This has included significant infrastructure services, health services, major procurement and the management of contracts with a value in excess of $A10 billion. It also included difficult security and logistics operations. John was inaugural Chief Executive of Biosecurity Australia, responsible for successfully establishing and leading that Agency as a newly independent body. He had previously worked in senior executive roles involving large and complex operations delivering Australia's quarantine border controls and for substantial corporate management, governance and services including HR, Finance and ICT. He has extensive leadership and management experience in a commercially operating regulatory authority with budgets exceeding $300 million annually and more than staff. John is passionate about the leadership and management of change in organisations and in helping them become high performing organisations that deliver the best possible policy and services. He has a deep knowledge and understanding of corporate management, strategy, governance and services in large and complex organisations. He has a very strong track record of organisation reform and management, including establishing strong governance arrangements to improve and measure performance. John was an inaugural Member of the Centre for Strategy and Governance