Chief Information Officer

Andrew Mills is the Chief Information Officer for the Government of South Australia, leading the development and implementation of across-government ICT strategy, policies, frameworks and standards.

Andrew’s previous role was the Director ICT Strategic Sourcing in the Office of the CIO, accountable for central ICT sourcing support, procurement projects for a range of ICT products and services and the strategic management of the vendors responsible for ICT infrastructure delivery on behalf of the government.

Andrew has worked in the public sector for 30 years, for both the South Australian and Australian Governments. He has been an executive for the SA Government since 1998 and in that capacity, worked on a range of projects including an innovative spatial information industry facilitation project, an ICT infrastructure project for the Parliament of South Australia and an Aboriginal Heritage project.  He has also fulfilled a number of operational roles within the government’s central ICT business unit and Department for Aboriginal Affairs & Reconciliation.  In his most recent role he was responsible for the delivery of the Future ICT Program, the implementation of the second generation of across government ICT infrastructure contracts.

Before joining the SA Government he undertook a broad range of roles in the Defence Department, including operational management, procurement and contract management, training and lecturing, ICT strategy and policy development, systems engineering and personnel management.

Andrew has a BSc from UNSW and an MSc in Electronic Systems from Cranfield University in the UK.