Professor Mark Evans (PhD, FIPAA, FRSN) is presently transitioning from his role as Deputy Vice Chancellor Research (DVCR) at Charles Sturt University (2021-June 2025) to leading a new international governance consultancy. Before taking up the DVCR role in December 2021, he was Director of the "Democracy 2025 - strengthening democratic practice" initiative at the Museum of Australian Democracy.

In the United Kingdom he was formerly Director of the World-wide Universities Public Policy Network (2002-5), Vice President of the Joint University Council for the Applied Social Sciences (1999-2004), Head of the Department of Politics at the University of York and Provost of Halifax College (1998-2007) and Chair, International Policy (2003-7).

In Australia, he was formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis (2014-18), Director of the Australia New Zealand School of Government’s Institute for Governance and Professor of Governance (2009-14) and Dean of the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra (2011-12).

His research focuses on the design of democratic governance practices to build better trust systems between government and citizen. Mark has played an international role in supporting change governance practices and has acted as a senior policy advisor, designed and delivered leadership development programmes and managed evaluation projects for 26 countries, the European Union, United Nations and the World Bank.

He has supervised 26 PhD and 6 postdoctoral programmes to completion. Mark is the author, co-author and editor of 26 books and edited collections in his field and was the editor of the Q1 international journal Policy Studies from 2004 to 2020. His latest books are Evidence based Policymaking and the Social Sciences: Methods that Matter (Policy Press, 2017 with Gerry Stoker), From Turnbull to Morrison. Trust Divide, (Melbourne University Press, 2019, with Michelle Grattan and Brendan McCaffrie), Saving Democracy (Bloomsbury Press, 2022 with Gerry Stoker) and Australia's Evolving Democracy. The New Democratic Audit (LSE Press, 2024) with Patrick Dunleavy and John Phillimore (eds).

He was awarded a personal chair from the University of York in 2003 and has been awarded honorary positions with the universities of Gadja Mahda, Hull, Renmin and York. Mark is a National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia, a Fellow of the Royal Society New South Wales and Distinguished Professor of Public Value Qatar Foundation.