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Professional Associate Tony Preston-Stanley
Tony Preston-Stanley has recently joined the Institute as a Professional Associate.
Tony served as a senior policy adviser and manager in the Australian Public Service in both central and line Ministries; as a Ministerial adviser on fiscal policy; and on a diplomatic posting to the US. He retired from The Treasury in early 2000 having worked as well in the Ministries of Finance and Defence since 1980.
Since that time he has been engaged as a senior adviser in a range of post conflict transitional countries including Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. He was international head of the Central Fiscal Authority of Kosovo for nearly two years in what has been described as one of the most successful examples of institution building in the first phases of reconstruction of Kosovo. The Central Fiscal Authority was the basis for a full function Finance Ministry an included responsibility for all aspects of budget and financial management; taxation policy and administration; Customs policy and administration and Audit. He undertook several additional roles in helping prepare aspiring and elected Members of the new Parliament of Kosovo on their respective roles in governance and the institutions of government. He also worked closely with local media outlets as part of a public education program and was an active participant in the drafting the new Constitution for Kosovo as well as preparing initial drafts of subsidiary legislation on financial and public sector management and institutions.
He has since worked primarily on budget, centre of government and machinery of government development in transitional and post conflict countries advising the offices of Prime Ministers, Ministers and senior officials as well as assisting in multilateral initiatives in civil service and related reforms with emphasis on public financial management and effective governance. He has established developed legislation for organic budget laws, procurement laws, Auditing and Treasury Regulations as part of the development of improved process in public administration in several countries. In three countries he also took an active part in developing the basis for better standards of civil services. More recently he has worked in Education Ministries to assist them with planning and execution of strategies developed within medium term expenditure frameworks.
His special interest is in the development of more effective decision making at the centre of government with the appropriate machinery of government architecture for new governments and in more robust public administration and governance ethics, standards and institutions. He is a well regarded expert on public financial management reform and capacity building in central and line Ministries and in their liaison with parliaments.
Tony holds a BA (Administration) from Canberra College of Advanced Education and a Graduate Diploma in Defence Studies from UNSW/ADFA. He has lectured on aspects of public administration reform and post conflict institution building in the US, Canada, Australia and China.
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