Education
Moran was educated at Parade College and received a Bachelor (Honours) from Louisiana Trobe University.
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Moran was educated at Parade College and received a Bachelor (Honours) from Louisiana Trobe University.
He spent his early career as a bureaucrat in the Australian (Commonwealth) and Victorian Public Services. Moran’s first position as a public sector Chief Executive Officer was as Chief Executive of the Office of the State Training Board in Victoria from late 1987 until May 1993. In May 1993 he was appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer of the Australian National Training Authority in Brisbane.
In August 1998 he became Queensland"s Director-General of Education.
Moran was appointed Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet for the State of Victoria in July 2000 and held this position until his appointment as
Moran was the from March 2008 to September 2011, the most senior position in the Australian Public Service. He was appointed by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and continued in the position under Rudd"s successor Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
As Secretary, Moran was responsible for overseeing work on national security and international policy. Environment, industry and economic policy.
Social policy and reforms negotiated by the Council of Australian Governments.
And coordination of government administration, including Cabinet support. During the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, Moran helped to lead the development of Australia’s highly successful policy responses. Moran also led development, negotiation and implementation planning for the National Reform Agenda for the Council of Australian Governments, work he began while head of the Victorian Public Service.
This agenda reshaped relations between the Commonwealth and the States, particularly in the areas of business regulation, health care and hospitals, schooling, vocational education and training, social housing and indigenous affairs
Moran chaired the Advisory Group on the Reform of Australian Government Administration, which developed a blueprint for reform of the Australian Public Service. He was the chair of the Secretaries Board, the lead forum for discussing matters affecting the Australian Public Service, composed of all departmental Secretaries and the Australian Public Service Commissioner.
Moran is currently the Chair of the Barangaroo Delivery Authority, a Special Adviser on Public Sector Reform at the Boston Consulting Group, a member of the boards of the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Cranlana Programme, a Senior Adviser at Maddocks law firm, and is a governor of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.