Christina has over thirty years of public sector experience, specialising in tax administration. She has enjoyed working in a variety of technical and leadership roles to support and engage large businesses, small businesses and non-profit organisations in meeting their tax and super obligations. Her experience includes design, implementation, monitoring and review of policies, programs and services.

With a strong commitment to organisational performance measurement and improvement, she has partnered with other agencies to develop better service offerings and contributed to sharing best practice with other tax authorities in different capacities during her career.

Currently Director, Risk Assurance & Evaluation, Superannuation & Employer Obligations, Christina is passionate about building capability and understanding of evaluation within the ATO and the broader public service.

Christina completed the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA) at the Australian National University in 2007 and also holds undergraduate degrees in Economics (UNSW) and Arts (University of Sydney) and a Master of Arts (University of Sydney).

Christina Byrnes graduated from the Executive Master of Public Administration in 2007 and is a member of ANZSOG’s Alumni Advisory Council. To find out more about the Alumni Advisory Council, click here.