Digital Government Excellence

CHAPTER 16Randall Brugeaud: Australia

 

Randall Brugeaud has spent in total more than thirty years working in a range of public and private sector roles, with a major focus on transformation.

Randall was appointed head of the Simplified Trade System Implementation Taskforce on July 1, 2021, a reform to simplify Australia's cross-border trade system. Prior to that role, Randall spent three years as the CEO of the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA). In April 2020, Randall was also appointed as the inaugural head of the Australian Public Service (APS) Digital Profession to raise the digital capability of the APS workforce.

Before the DTA, Randall was the deputy Australian statistician and chief operating officer at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Prior to that, he was the CIO at both the former Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. He previously spent more than a decade working with the Boston Consulting Group and a private IT consulting firm, which he founded and operated.

Randall holds a master of business administration degree, a graduate diploma in applied computing, and a bachelor of education degree. He is also a senior executive fellow of the Harvard Kennedy School.

 

 

 

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