GREG GOUGH
DIRECTOR / FACILITATOR
Greg is an accredited Investment Management Facilitator, gateway review team member, one of the creators of the Investment Management Standard and an open data advocate.
Greg specialises in complex and challenging projects, big and small. He brings experience across the full range of investment types including infrastructure asset investments, output investments, policy development and ICT projects. He has completed logic workshops for every level of government and has worked on various cross-agency and multi-jurisdictional programs.
Before starting Ideas Advisory Greg held senior Victorian government positions within the Department of Treasury and Finance and the Department of Premier and Cabinet for more than a decade. These roles included Senior Advisor, Strategist and Manager of the Investment Management Standard, Manager of the DataVic Access Policy, Senior Advisor for the Government’s response to Infrastructure Victoria and Senior Advisor for the My Victoria project. He also held various short-term positions for 10 Victorian State Budgets.
Greg developed many of the innovative tools, processes and policies for the Victorian Government’s State Budget Process, Investment lifecycle and high value high risk guidelines and Gateway review process.
Greg has advised on investment management practices, budget processes and business case development and review for all jurisdictions within Australia, numerous international government contingents, major corporations, universities and local councils.
He is also available to provide information sessions on the application of the IMS for both the public and commercial context, as well as presentations about the Victorian Government Budget process.
Greg is an accredited investment management facilitator (since 2007) and a gateway review team member (since 2008). He has facilitated hundreds of workshops across the full workshop suite of the Investment Management Standard (IMS) and has tested and developed many of the ideas and facilitation techniques that make up the standard.
Over the past decade he has trained thousands of public and private sector clients in the IMS, the Investment lifecycle and high value high risk guidelines and the Victorian State Budget process. Greg specialises in complex and challenging projects, big and small.