Melissa specialises in strategy, policy, regulation and reform in both public and private sectors.  She has a reputation for getting to the core of wide-ranging problems and delivering robust and implementable solutions.

Melissa has senior government experience as Deputy Secretary of Budget and Finance at the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance and as Deputy Secretary of Regulation, Health Protection and Emergency Management at the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, senior consulting experience as Partner, Economics and Strategic Advisory at Deloitte and as Director of the Allen Consulting Group Pty Ltd and experience on university and government boards.

Melissa has an honours degree in Economics from the University of Melbourne (B.Comm), is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and was one of the Inaugural Top 50 Public Sector Women, Victoria, in 2017.