Ophelia Cowell is the Executive Director, Delivery and Innovation at DEIT, and previously directed the Centre for Evidence and Evaluation at NSW Treasury. The Centre provides economic analysis and advice to the NSW Government to put evidence-based policy into practice and direct initiatives towards outcomes with the greatest public value.

Formerly, Ophelia directed the Strategic Reform branch in NSW Treasury where she led reform initiatives across a range of policy portfolios including in health, justice, energy, climate change and water and ran the first pilot of the Washington State Institute model for policy impact assessment in Australia. Before joining the public sector, Ophelia led an international program for evidence-based energy policy development in 12 developing and in-transition economies in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

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