Jane-Frances Kelly set up Grattan’s Cities Program after a career developing high-level policy in the public, private and non-profit sectors in Australia and the United Kingdom.
After several years with the Boston Consulting Group, Jane-Frances was recruited by the Strategy Unit of the UK Prime Minister’s Office, a role that involved providing evidence-based policy advice to Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British cabinet.
Since moving to Australia in 2004, Jane-Frances has led strategic policy stocktakes for the Victorian and Queensland Governments, worked in a senior capacity at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and played a central role in organizing the 2020 Summit. She has also worked with the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, Cape York Indigenous leader Noel Pearson and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.
She holds degrees from Oxford University, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
After several years with the Boston Consulting Group, Jane-Frances was recruited by the Strategy Unit of the UK Prime Minister’s Office, a role that involved providing evidence-based policy advice to Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British cabinet.
Since moving to Australia in 2004, Jane-Frances has led strategic policy stocktakes for the Victorian and Queensland Governments, worked in a senior capacity at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and played a central role in organizing the 2020 Summit. She has also worked with the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police, Cape York Indigenous leader Noel Pearson and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.
She holds degrees from Oxford University, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.