Clare Gardiner-Barnes

Clare Gardiner-Barnes is currently Deputy Secretary, Freight, Strategy and Planning at Transport for NSW, a position she has held since August 2015. Prior to this, Clare was Chief Executive at the Department of Transport in the Northern Territory. She has held numerous senior positions in government including Chief Executive at the Department of Children and Families in the Northern Territory and in policy at the Department of Education and Training in Queensland.

Under Clare’s leadership, a key focus area is aligning the transport project pipeline with land use planning in NSW to create an integrated transport system for both customers and freight that is underpinned by evidence-based research, innovative practices and makes use of emerging technologies to drive improvements.