About Us
Policy Performance offers an agile three-person team, with complementary skillsets. We partner with like-minded companies to bring greater scale, depth of subject insight and skillsets. While we operate from Adelaide and Melbourne, we offer services Australia-wide and across the Asia-Pacific region.
Charlie Tulloch
Director
Master of Program Evaluation
University of Melbourne, 2014
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Master of Public Policy and Management
Monash University, 2007
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Bachelor of Arts
University of Melbourne, 200​​
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Department of Treasury and Finance (Vic)
Accredited Investment Logic Mapping Facilitator
Since 2016
Charlie has been a policy and evaluation consultant since 2008. He has worked from junior research roles through to project director, so understands the full skillset needed to deliver high quality projects.
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As a policy generalist, his consulting work spans many areas and tiers of government, drawing on a diverse breath of cross-sectoral project experiences.
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He has completed the majority of projects in Australia, but has also worked in Vanuatu, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica and India, including on several volunteer community development assignments.
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He is driven by a desire for public sector organisational excellence, particularly in evaluative pursuits. He has worked to expand the knowledge and skills of evaluators in this important field.
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As an ILM facilitator, Charlie helps to unlock the most powerful arguments for public investment. In this role, he has facilitated more than 50 business case planning discussions over the past decade across Australia.
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He is a former public servant, so understands the flows of government. He worked in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet from 2004-08. In this environment, he supported diverse policy and budget process in areas of economic development, infrastructure, sport and tourism.
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Charlie has also contributed to the Australian Evaluation Society (AES), having joined as a member in 2012. Major contributions include:
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Evaluating the 2014 AES Conference (Darwin)
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Delivering introductory training workshops to many emerging evaluators via full-day training courses and conference presentations
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Serving on the Victorian Committee (2018-21) and South Australian Regional Committee (2024-ongoing)
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Serving as a national AES Board Member (2020-2022)
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Chairing the Relationships Committee (2021-2023), in which he lead the production of the State of Evaluation Report
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Being a lead mentor in 2024 on career pathways for evaluators
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Serving on the professionalisation working group (current)
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Sponsoring the AES Conference in 2024 and 2025
Charlie was a tutor in Impact Evaluation at the University of Melbourne's between 2015 and 2018. In 2020, he was an online facilitator for the Evidence in Public Policy leadership course at Oxford University, focusing on treatment and control group methods.
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He has completed numerous evaluation projects for governments across Australia and internationally. He recently led the development of Vanuatu Government’s National Guidelines for Monitoring, Evaluation and Policy Audit, along with training materials.
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He lives in Adelaide and is a proud father of two. Outside work, he plays competitive weekend tennis. He played top division hockey in Melbourne for 15 years and has coached numerous teams in Melbourne, India and Belgium.
Over two decades, I feel privileged to have helped many public sector organisations to design, monitor and evaluate their policies and programs to be as effective and equitable as possible. I enjoy training people in these areas – from theory right through to skills application.
Charlie Tulloch
Arun
Jyothi Callapilli
Research & Evaluation Consultant
Master of Science
Statistics
Osmania University, India, 2021
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Bachelor of Science
Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science
Osmania University, 2017
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​Micromasters Program
Data Analysis for Social Scientists), and
Designing and Running Randomised Evaluations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022​
Arun immigrated from India to Australia in 2024 and was swiftly recruited by Policy Performance as its first employee.
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Arun is an outstanding researcher, quantitative data analyst and visualiser who helps to digest complex information via impactful charts and infographics.
Her work draws on past work in the state government environment (Telangana, India), where Arun supported the Planning, Education and Finance Secretaries to evaluate education programs targeting students from lower-income families.
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She also worked at the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), supporting several high-profile randomised controlled trials with leading researchers from USA. Notably, she evaluated the impact of a large-scale school leadership program, seeking to better understand how enhancing school leadership qualities could improve student learning.
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Arun's studies in statistics provide her with deep expertise in randomised and quasi-randomised evaluation methods, associated data analysis techniques, as well as the application of economic models to real-world scenarios.
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Her consulting work has extended these skills further into data analysis and visual reporting. She works across the full suite of Policy Performance projects.
I enjoy working with complex data systems that drive me to
go beyond surface-level information to deeply understand the life and context of data. I find great satisfaction in navigating diverse datasets, identifying patterns and mapping the dots that bring the evidence to life.
Arun Jyothi Callapilli
Jess is a Town Planner with 20+ years’ experience managing complex statutory and strategic planning projects around metropolitan and regional Victoria.
As a Sessional Panel Member for Planning Panels Victoria, Jess has supported a variety of Panels and Advisory Committees covering topics such as heritage, flooding and inundation, significant landscapes and rural redevelopment.
She has excellent insight and understanding of social and affordable housing projects, having facilitated a number of permits and amendments. This builds on her time working in local and State government settings.
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She lives in Adelaide with two young children and our beautiful rescue dog Roxy, a short-haired pointer. Outside work, Jess is a keen swimmer who has been a representative at club, state and national levels. She also now sits on her local primary school's governing council.
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Jess is available to provide advisory support and to engage contribute to hands-on planning projects.
My university studies and working life have focused on supporting better urban and built environments for the health and happiness of people and places. I am very passionate about housing and promoting sensible built forms that juggle competing priorities and uses.
Jess Tulloch
Panel Memberships
We are a proud member of the Victorian Government's Professional Advisory Services Panel, 2025-2028. We have been selected on Category 1 (strategy & planning), Category 2 (business case and ILM) and Category 5 (monitoring and evaluation)
Insurances
Policy Performance holds insurances in public/product liability, professional indemnity, Workcover (SA and VIC) and cyber insurance.