Wayne Poels

General Manager, Digital Investment Advice and Sourcing Division.

Wayne leads a team that coordinates advice to Government on the alignment of all digital and ICT-enabled investment proposals with the Government’s Digital Capability Standards as well as working to support Commonwealth Department’s to ensure the benefits of the digital and ICT-investments are realised. Wayne is also responsible for the procurement of digital products and services through Government panels and marketplaces. Prior to taking this position, Wayne was part of the DTA’s Reform Taskforce that oversaw the development of the whole-of-Government Digital and ICT Oversight Framework which was announced by the Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business of Australia on 6 December 2021.

Prior to moving to the DTA, Wayne held a number of positions in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C), including three years as the head of the Fiscal Policy Branch where he oversaw PM&C advice to the Expenditure Review Committee on the Government’s response to COVID-19 and the black summer bushfires. He was a former Executive Director of the Office of Best Practice Regulation and supported the Prime Minister and G20 Sherpa to coordinate whole of Government advice on Australia’s response to the Global Financial Crisis in 2008.

Wayne has worked in the Commonwealth Treasury, including as an analyst in Treasury’s Macroeconomic Group and the Investment and Debt Division (now The Australian Office of Financial Management).

He holds a Master of Economics from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) degree from La Trobe University.