Associate Professor of Economics, Rhonda
Sharp (PhD, MEc, DipEd, BEc Hons) currently works as
Director of the Hawke Research Institute and in the School of
International Business, University of South Australia. She
has had 17 years relevant work experience in the areas of
gender budgets and public expenditure policy. She has worked
as an economist and public policy analyst to the government
of South Australia; she has acted as gender budget advisor
various governments including Fiji, Barbados, Sri Lanka and
South Africa ; and she has consulted for the "ADBI PEM Train
the Trainer Program for officials from Pacific countries"
Cairns, Australia, 2001. In this project she acts as Team
Leader, Public Expenditure Policy Specialist and Gender
Analysis Specialist.
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Ms Jan Connolly () (BSocAdmin, BEc) is the
Public Expenditure Management Specialist on the Youth And
Gender Sensitive Public Expenditure Management In The Pacific
project. Jan comes to the project with over 20 years
experience in her field. Her roles have included Executive
Director and Vice President of Resources, University of South
Australia, General manager, Housing Services South Australia
and Director of Operations, South Australian Housing Trust
and Principal Consultant, Government Management Board, South
Australia. She was awarded a National Fellowship, Institute
for Public Administration Australia for 'outstanding
contribution to the practice and study of public
administration'. Jan is currently an Adjunct Senior Research
Fellow, University of South Australia where she is part of a
team responsible for research, analysis and the development
of a methodology for people-responsive budgeting.
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John Spoehr (BLS Hons) is the Executive
Director of the Centre for Labor Research at the University
of Adelaide, where he has worked as a labour market and
public policy analyst for over ten years. John is Youth
Policy and Public Expenditure Policy Specialist. He has
implemented a wide range of youth policy and development
projects in Australia and South Australia, acting as an
advisor to government, community organisations and industry.
He recently worked as a Youth labour market specialist at the
Asian Development Bank Institute Public Expenditure
Management Workshop, Cairns, Australia, 2001. John is
currently completing a PhD in economics at the University of
South Australia.
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Sanjugta Vas Dev (BA Hons) is working as the
project officer/researcher for the Youth and Gender Sensitive
Public Expenditure Management in the Pacific. Sanjugta has
been employed at the University of South Australia for three
years where she has gained extensive experience in office
administration and project management. She is currently
employed by The Department of Development Studies, Flinders
University to research the World Bank's adoption of
stakeholder participation based methodologies in their
projects. Sanjugta is currently completing her Masters of
Arts by Research in International Politics at the University
of Adelaide.
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