Wendy Jarvie

Dr Wendy Jarvie
Secretary of the Department of Education, Science and Training (Acting)
In office 10 February 2003 – 10 March 2003
Personal details
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	Flinders University University of Newcastle Harvard University
Occupation	Public servant

Dr Wendy K. Jarvie is a public policy academic and retired senior Australian public servant.

Education and career

Attending Flinders University, Jarvie was awarded her PhD in Geography in 1984.[1] After completing her PhD, Jarvie joined the Australian Public Service in the Bureau of Labour Market Research.

Between 2001 and 2007, Wendy Jarvie was a Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education, Science and Training, staying in the role when the department transitioned to become the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.[2] During her time at DEST, Jarvie was involved with, among other things, policy behind Australia's Vocational and Technical Education System.[3] Jarvie left the Australian Public Service in 2008.[2]

In addition she worked for three years in the World Bank in Washington (1998-2001), initially in the Operations Evaluation Department where she was a manager of corporate evaluations and evaluation methods, and later in Operations and Country Strategies where she worked on small states issues, and managed a taskforce on Bank strategies for middle income countries.

In 2010, while a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales, Jarvie spoke on implementing and sustaining reforms in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.[4]

In 2012, Jarvie was appointed to be a member of the AusAID Independent Evaluation Committee.[5]

References

1. Dr Wendy Jarvie: Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, archived from the original on 22 May 2013
2. Dr Wendy Jarvie, University of Sydney, archived from the original on 3 May 2013
3. Jarvie, Wendy (17 October 2005), Australia's Vocational & Technical Education System (PDF), Bogota: Department of Education, Science and Training, archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2013
4. Jarvie, Wendy (2010), Why is it all so hard? Implementing and sustaining reforms in Indigenous communities (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2014
5. Dr Wendy Jarvie appointed to Ausaid committee, University of New South Wales, 23 June 2012, archived from the original on 24 February 2014

Government offices
Preceded by Peter Shergold	Secretary of the Department of Education, Science and Training (Acting) 2003	Succeeded by Jeff Harmer