Michael has been engaged regularly as a public financial management (PFM) advisor by international organisations and governments. He has provided technical assistance and advisory services in the following areas: performance-based budgeting, medium-term budget frameworks, budget process design, program specification, performance information specification, program logic analysis, performance reporting, and program costing.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Short Term Expert PFM Advisor Technical Assistance Missions

• Poland, Ministry of Finance, Feb 2009

• Brazil, Secretariat of Finance, Sao Paulo State, Nov 2009

• Brazil, Secretariat of Planning and Regional Development, Sao Paulo State, Oct 2010, Apr 2011, Jun 2012, Dec 2012

• Costa Rica, Ministry of Finance, May 2013

• Sri Lanka, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Dec 2013

• Vietnam, National Institute for Finance, Sep-Oct 2019

• Indonesia, Ministry of Finance, June-July 2021

World Bank

Public Sector Consultant

• Lead consultant on ‘Review of international practices for determining medium-term resource needs of spending agencies’, 2013-2015

Short Term Expert PFM Advisor Technical Assistance Missions

• Brazil, Ministry of Finance and National Treasury, Jul 2014

• Indonesia, Ministry of Finance, Oct 2014

• Dominican Republic (Washington DC), Jun 2015

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Short Term Consultant (International Budget Planning and Management Specialist)

• Lead consultant on ‘Strengthen the medium-term budget framework (MTBF) pilot for improved local public financial management in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’, 2015-2016

National Treasury of South Africa

Expert Advisory Appointment

• Expert Panel Member, ‘Mid-Term Review of the Performance and Expenditure Review (PER) Program of the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC)’, Pretoria, Jun-Jul 2015

NSW Treasury

• Advisor to the Financial Management Transformation Program’s Resource Management Information Project to develop program structures for budget dependent agencies, May-Oct 2014

Australian Department of Family and Community Services (DFaCS)

• Independent Reviewer for DFaCS preparing a Policy Management Review (PMR) of the policy development process supporting the Commonwealth Government’s Youth Allowance reform initiative, 1999

Australian Department of Finance

• Advisor to the Department of Finance Accrual Budget Group, preparing two discussion papers to inform guidelines for the specification of performance information for policy advice output, 1998