The NSW government has named Kate Boyd secretary of the state’s Cabinet Office.
Boyd has worked in the NSW Cabinet Office since 2007 and served as acting secretary since December last year.
Prior to that appointment, Boyd was deputy secretary, general counsel, in the former Department of Premier and Cabinet.
She was awarded a Public Service Medal for her outstanding work during the 2019-2020 bushfire season and the COVID-19 pandemic.
NSW premier Chris Minns said he was pleased to continue working with Boyd.
“[Boyd] leads a team of experts to provide policy and legal advice on some of the biggest challenges facing our state,” Minns said.
“The establishment of the Cabinet Office has ensured high-quality cabinet decision-making processes are front and centre.”
The NSW Cabinet Office was re-established as part of a departmental shakeup by the Labor government in July. It existed from 1988 to 2007 before being abolished by then-premier Morris Iemma.
Minns said its return was the centrepiece of their machinery of government changes upon taking office. He said it would “restore robust cabinet practice and decisions informed by expert policy and legal advice, a model that underpinned the Greiner and Carr governments”.
“The Cabinet Office will be made up of experts in legal, policy and governance, and support my ministers and I to meet community expectations and deliver for the people of NSW,” he said.
“We have a strong team of ministers and I want them supported by excellent public service advice and high-quality cabinet decision-making processes.”
