Professor Janine O’Flynn is the Director of the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, taking on the role of Director after 10 years at the University of Melbourne, and an extended secondment at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.

Her research interests are in public management, especially reform and relationships. This covers topics such as the creation and evolution of public service markets, collaboration, joined-up government, public value, performance management systems, and the intersection of morality and public management practice.

She is an Associate Editor at Public Management Review, and previously was an editor at Australian Journal of Public Administration. She is an editorial board member for academic journals in the field including: Public Administration Review; Public Administration; Public Management Review; International Journal of Public Administration; Policy Design and Practice; Journal of Public Affairs Education; Global Public Policy and Governance; Halduskultuur: The Estonian Journal of Administrative Culture and Digital Governance, and Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration.

Her teaching focuses on management issues in the public sector and challenges faced by contemporary leaders. She has worked extensively with professionals from across the world and has been recognised for teaching excellence through various awards.

She has been a member of the Advisory Board for the Australian Public Service Commission Centre for Leadership and Learning (2018-2020) and a member of the Infrastructure Victoria Expert Panel on the Role of Infrastructure in Addressing Regional Disadvantage (2019-2020). In 2022, she was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Victorian Public Sector Commission, and the Institute for Public Administration Australian Council (Australian Capital Territory).

In 2021, she was elected to the board of the Public Management Research Association Board, and previously served as an elected member of the executive board of the International Research Society for Public Management (2012-2018). In 2022, she was elected a fellow of the (US) National Academy of Public Administration. Since 2013 she has been a fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (Victoria).