Prof. Jane Burns has been appointed to the position of Chief Strategy and Wellbeing Officer with National Disability Insurance Agency

Prof. Jane Burns has been appointed to the position of Chief Strategy and Wellbeing Officer with National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and commenced on 12 March 2024.

Jane is a C-Suite Executive with over 20 years of Executive and Non-Executive experience in not-for-profit, government, academic and industry with a focus on technology, health, mental health and disability care. Jane has a passion for empowering, inspiring, and elevating people, including those with a lived experience, clinicians, researchers, policy makers and executives and boards across sectors.

Before joining the NDIA, Jane was most recently Executive Director at Safer Care Victoria. Before that, she held the positions of CEO and Founder of InnoWell and Professor of Innovation and Industry at the University of Sydney, and earlier was CEO and Founder of Young and Well CRC and Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne.

“Fisher Leadership worked with me to ensure I had the right information at the right time and in the right format to apply for this role. They understood my passion for the role and helped me get a balance between my professional executive experience (in co-design) and my personal drive as Mum to Angus, a young adult living with Down syndrome and Autism who is non-verbal. The end result for me is a passion meets purpose role.”

Prof. Jane Burns, Chief Strategy and Wellbeing Officer, National Disability Insurance Agency