Dr Cathy Fussell is an Australian Government public servant and academic. As a public servant, Cathy has over 20 years’ experience in policy and program delivery, and data analytics strategy and capability development. Her work currently focuses on using data for outcomes-driven policy realisation and adaption. As an academic, Dr Fussell focuses on addressing the bias towards theorising power in its negative exercise, neglecting the positive. That is, the capacity to achieve shared outcomes. She is rethinking power in light of complex systems theory and the system dynamics of ethical and effective governing. Cathy is a visiting fellow at ANU’s School of Cybernetics and a Sir Roland Wilson Foundation alumna. She is an active champion of APS-academic partnerships.