Libby Hackett is the inaugural CEO of the James Martin Institute for Public Policy.

Libby is an award-winning public policy expert with over 20 years of experience working at the highest level of government and universities. She has held senior advisory and leadership roles in government, parliament, peak bodies, think tanks and private sector consultancy in Australia and the UK. Libby was selected to participate in the Prime Minister’s leadership training programme for outstanding public servants in 2010. She was named one of the UK’s ‘Education Reformers of the Year’ by the Education Foundation for work promoting social mobility and access to higher education. She served as a Director on the UK Higher Education Commission and as an Advisor to the Browne Review of Higher Education Fees and Funding.

Libby holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. She is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Fellow in global higher education policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU).