Helen Dickinson is Professor of Public Service Research at the School of Business, University of New South Wales, Canberra. 

Her expertise is in public services, particularly in relation to topics such as governance, policy implementation and stewardship of 4^th industrial revolution technologies.  Helen has published nineteen books and over one hundred peer-reviewed journal articles on these topics and is also a frequent commentator within the mainstream media. 

In 2015 Helen was made a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and in 2019 awarded a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.  In 2021 Helen was named one of Apolitical’s 100 most influential academics in government. She has worked with a range of different levels of government, community organisations and private organisations in Australia, UK, New Zealand and Europe on research and consultancy programmes.