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				Ed Russell
							Ed Russell is a Senior Lecturer at the National Graduate School of Management at ANU and is responsible for the academic leadership and management of the Master of Business Administration Program, and the Master of management (Technology) Program. A former Chief-of-Staff to the Commonwealth Minister for Health, Community Services, Women's Affairs, he was the principal adviser and spokesman for this senior Cabinet minister in the Australian National Government. He supervised the preparation of budget submissions and major reform programs in areas such as private health, Aboriginal health, and immunisation.
				He also has experience as Chief-of-Staff in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition in Western Australia, Director of the Office of the Premier, and Director of the Parliamentary Services Branch of the Ministry of the Promier and Cabinet in Western Australia, Principal Private Secretary to the Attorney- General, Crown Law Department and Policy Executive, and in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs in Western Australia. He has consulted on general management, privatisation and administrative reform, and the design of database systems and information management. Ed is an exoert in survey design and the conduct of Internet-based surveys. Clients have included the Western Australian Health Department, the Australian Defence Department, the World Bank, AusAid, and enterprises in Australia and China. Information technology expertise. Since 1987 Ed has been involved in Government information technology and communications policy. His research interests are in government and business applications of information and knowledge management systems. He is familiar with website development including CGI programming, Unix system administration, relational database development and administration, and document management technology such as SGML/XML. Ed is an expert in the standard office applications, including some application development using Visual Basic. Since 1999 he has taught courses in E-Commerce and Strategy at postgraduate level.