Tom Bentley
Deputy Chief of Staff of Office of the Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Australia
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Tom Bentley is Deputy Chief of Staff for the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, where he is responsible for long term policy planning and implementation.
He is a past Director of Demos, an independent think tank based in London. He has also worked as a policy adviser to David Blunkett, UK Minister for Education and Employment, as a senior consultant for the OECD and as Director of Applied Learning at ANZSOG, the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
His publications include
Learning Beyond the Classroom: education for a changing world (Routledge, 1998)
The Creative Age: knowledge and skills for the 21st century (Demos, 1999) www.demos.co.uk
The Adaptive State: strategies for personalising the public realm (Demos, 2003) www.demos.co.uk
And a chapter in the Second International Handbook of Educational Change,
Hargreaves, A.; Lieberman, A.; Fullan, M.; Hopkins, D. (Eds.) 2009