Other Senior Officers
Deputy Director General: Coordination, Cabinet and Policy Division
Mr David Smith
Mr Smith has been Deputy Director General, Coordination, since August 2008. Prior to this, he was a member of the corporate executive of the Department of Treasury and Finance, with responsibility for economic policy. Mr Smith was in the Treasury Department in a variety of positions for 12 years. Before this, he gained over 20 years of experience in the Commonwealth public service, including in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and an overseas posting with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has also worked with a private economic consultancy in London.
Deputy Director General: Strategic Issues, Cabinet and Policy Division
Ms Rebecca Brown
Ms Brown has been Executive Director, Strategic Issues Unit, since October 2009. Prior to this, she was a member of the corporate executive of the Department of Treasury and Finance. Ms Brown had been in the Treasury Department in a variety of positions for 12 years. Previously, she had gained five years of experience in the Federal Treasury. Ms Brown is currently acting in the position of Deputy Director General, Strategic Issues.
Assistant Director General: State Administration and Corporate Support
Mr Greg Moore
Mr Moore was appointed to the position of Assistant Director General, State Administration and Corporate Support, in June 2007. Prior to this appointment, Mr Moore was the Director, State Administration, within the State Administration and Corporate Support Division. Mr Moore has over 40 years of experience in the public sector and prior to joining the Department of the Premier and Cabinet in 1987, he held positions in the Public Service Commission, Office of Industrial Relations and the Department of Labour and Industry.
Assistant Director General: Office of State Security and Emergency Coordination
Mr Geoff Hay
Mr Hay was appointed to the position of Assistant Director General, Security Planning and Coordination, in July 2005, following periods in the positions of Assistant Director General, State Administration, and Assistant Director General, Public Sector Management. Previously, Mr Hay held the position of Assistant Under Treasurer at the Treasury Department. Mr Hay has over 30 years of experience in the public sector and, in addition to the Treasury Department, he has been employed by the Department of Corrective Services and the Fremantle Port Authority.
Director: Constitutional Centre
Ms Betty O’Rourke
Ms O’Rourke was appointed as Director, Constitutional Centre of Western Australia, in February 2000. Ms O’Rourke had 15 years of experience as a teacher before spending the following six years as Head of Public Programs at the Western Australian Museum.
Director: State Law Publisher
Mr John Strijk
Mr Strijk was appointed to the position of Manager, State Law Publisher and Government Printer, in June 1996, having previously acted in the position of Director, State Print. Mr Strijk has over 40 years of public sector experience and occupied various positions in the Department of State Services and State Print.
Executive Director: Strategic Review
Mr Stephen Home
Mr Home was appointed as Executive Director, Strategic Review, on 3 May 2010. For nine years prior to this he was Business Manager of the University of Western Australia’s Oral Health Centre. Up until 2001, Mr Home spent over 20 years in the Western Australian public service, holding senior positions in a number of agencies, including the Departments of Productivity and Labour Relations, Fisheries and Education. He was acting Chief Executive of the Department of Productivity and Labour Relations for two years from 1993, and of the Department of Fisheries for three months in 1996. From January 1997–June 2001 he was Executive Director of Human Resources within the Department of Education.
Executive Director: Intergovernmental Relations
Ms Lyn Genoni
Ms Genoni was appointed an Executive Director in 2010. She has over 30 years of public sector experience, with more than a decade in the area of Commonwealth and State relations. Ms Genoni commenced her career as an English and Literature teacher, and went on to a succession of policy leadership and management roles — from schooling and skills to workforce development and labour relations — in a number of government agencies. She served as an elected member of the State Council of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) for ten years, and was awarded life membership of IPAA WA in 2007.
Executive Director: Native Title Unit
Mr John Catlin
Mr Catlin has a lengthy background in Indigenous issues and resource management policy. Mr Catlin returned to the Department of the Premier and Cabinet in May 2010 after a ten-year absence during which he spent six years as a Member of the National Native Title Tribunal, two years as Manager of the Victorian Government’s Native Title Unit, and a year in the mining industry in Queensland. He previously worked in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Department of Indigenous Affairs and the Department of Mines and Petroleum during the 1990s.
Executive Director
Mr Tony Rutherford
Mr Rutherford was appointed to the position of Executive Director in May 2011. Prior to this appointment, Mr Rutherford had extensive experience in senior policy advisory roles in both State and Commonwealth Government offices and the Institute of Public Affairs, as a public affairs columnist for The West Australian Newspaper, and in a private consulting practice.
Director: Cabinet Secretariat, Cabinet and Policy Division
Mr Nick Hagley
Mr Hagley commenced as a Senior Parliamentary Officer in 1989, before moving to the former Minister for Police’s office as Executive Officer in 1995. Returning to the Department, he was appointed Manager of the Parliamentary Services Branch and has also acted as Cabinet Secretary. In 2010, he was appointed Director of the Cabinet Secretariat.
Director: Office of the Director General
Mr Robert Kennedy
Mr Kennedy has worked in public sector agencies for over 15 years in both the State and Commonwealth Government. Most of this time has been in central agencies in policy and administration roles. He joined the Department in 2003 and was appointed Director, State Administration, just prior to the general election in 2008, when he joined the Corporate Executive. Mr Kennedy has been working in the Office of the Director General, since 2011.
Director: State Administration
Ms Kathryn Andrews
Ms Andrews was appointed as Director, State Administration, on 4 January 2012. Prior to this, Ms Andrews was Manager, Human Resource Services. Ms Andrews initially joined the Department in 1994, and has over 26 years of public sector experience in a number of agencies within the human resources field.