Deirdre O'Neill

Associate Professor Deirdre O'Neill is Associate Dean Education (Student Experience) and Director of Public Policy Graduate Programs at Monash University's Faculty of Arts. She leads the Master of Public Policy programs in Australia and Indonesia. Previously, she served as Academic Director of the Executive Master of Public Administration at ANZSOG and designed AusAID's Pacific leadership program. Her research focuses on decolonising pedagogy, prisons privatisation, and public sector accountability. She chairs ANZSOG's Human Research Ethics Committee and contributed to SDGs through policy education reforms. Key projects include health policy capacity-building in Timor-Leste and Australia's governance frameworks. She holds a PhD from Monash University (2000) and a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Melbourne (1978).

• Education: PhD in Public Administration (Monash, 2000), BA (Hons) Political Science (Melbourne, 1978)
• Leadership Roles: ANZSOG Academic Fellow, Chair of Ethics Committee

Research emphasizes transforming policy education through decolonial frameworks and evaluating privatization's impact on public accountability. Recent work explores AI's role in bureaucratic systems and royal commissions' policy influence.