Adrian Kay

Adrian Kay is Director of National Professional Development and Professor of Government at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. He has previously held academic appointments in the UK and at Griffith University, Queensland. Prior to an academic career, Adrian was a member of the UK government’s European Fast Stream for several years and spent a year working for the European Commission in Brussels. His major research interests lie at the intersection of international and comparative public policy, with a particular empirical focus on transnational health policy-making and the social determinants of health.

Adrian is currently Co-Editor of the Australian Journal of Public Administration and, in 2015-16, President of the Australian Political Studies Association.

Institutionalism in public policy analysis

Theories of the policy process

Transnational health policy-making

Comparative biofuels policy

• Case Studies in Decision Making (POGO8055)
• Global Social Policy (POGO8044)