About

Professor Ingrid Burkett is Director of Griffith University's Centre for Systems Innovation (GCSI). The Centre leads the University's research, teaching, and engagement in the field of systems innovation with a particular focus on Systems Capital, Civic Innovation and Institutional Innovation. 

Ingrid is a social designer, designing processes, products and knowledge that deepen social impact and facilitate social innovation. She has contributed to the design of policy and processes in a diversity of fields, including social investment, community development, local economic development, disability and procurement. 

She led the foundation of social procurement in Australia with a number of guidebooks and research reports and is one of the co-founders of Social Procurement Australasia.   She also provided much groundwork for Australia’s entry into social and impact investment, having undertaken seminal research work whilst Social Innovations Manager at Foresters Community Finance, and then undertaking comprehensive reviews and blueprint development for initiating place-based impact investment in Australia.