Professor Mark Evans is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research at Charles Sturt University. Professor Evans was previously Director of the Democracy 2025 – strengthening democratic practice initiative at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House from 2018-2021 and, before that, Director and Professor of Governance at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra. He was also the Australia New Zealand School of Government’s (ANZSOG) Professor of Governance from 2009 to 2014. Mark is the author, co-author or editor of 24 books in his field and was editor of the international journal Policy Studies from 2004 to 2021.