Adrian Kay is Director of the Policy & Governance Program and an Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. He has previously held academic appointments in the UK and at Griffith University, Queensland. Prior to an academic career, Adrian was a member of the UK government's European Fast Stream for several years and spent a year working for the European Commission in Brussels. His major research interests are in the broad areas of comparative and international public policy, with a particular empirical focus on health, agriculture and bioenergy.

Research interests/expertise

• Historical analysis of Australia’s health care system
• Comparative health care reform in the global health economy
• Comparative biofuels policy
• Theories of the policy process

Current projects

• ARC Discovery Grant (2012-2015) The making and unmaking of Australian public policy: understanding the path from Medibank to Medicare, DP120103676
• ANZSOG funded, (2012-2014) Does failure facilitate success in health care reform? Lessons from 40 years of health care reform in Australia
• UK ESRC funded (completed end of 2011), 'Sweetness and power: the comparative political economy of sugar policy change'

Recent publications

• Ackrill, R.W. and Kay, A. (2010) Multiple streams in EU policy-making: the case of the 2005 sugar reform, Journal of European Public Policy (forthcoming)
• Kay, A. and Williams, O. (eds) (2009) Global Health Governance: Crisis, Institutions and Political Economy, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. ISBN 0-230-20591-7.
• Kay, A. (2009) Policy change as a hermeneutic problem, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, vol 11, no 1, pp.47-63.
• Kay, A. and Ackrill, R.W. (2009) Institutional change in the international governance of food and agriculture: a revised account, Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions vol 22, no 3, pp.483-506.
• Ackrill, R.W. and Kay, A. (2009) Historical learning in the design of WTO rules: the EC sugar case, World Economy, vol 32, no 5, pp.754-771.

Teaching

• Economics for Government
• Health Policy in a Globalising World

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