Pia Andrews

Pia Andrews (née Pia Smith, also formerly known as Pia Waugh), born 1979, In 2005 Andrews was appointed Research Co-ordinator of the Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software (ASK-OSS) project. From 2006 Andrews, with her then-husband Jeff Waugh, was a director of Waugh Partners, an Australian Open Source consultancy. Waugh Partners won the 2007 NSW State Pearcey Award for Young Achievers for their work promoting Free Software to the Australian ICT industry. She was the project leader and a member of the Board of Directors of the One Laptop Per Child Australia program, launched in 2008.

Andrews is a self-taught computer specialist, and has also studied politics at a tertiary level.

In April 2009 Andrews announced her appointment as a policy advisor to Kate Lundy, and announced that in this role she was stepping aside from leadership and advocacy roles in community groups, and that she would no longer work for Waugh Partners.

In November 2012 Andrews joined the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO). She was Director of Coordination and Gov 2.0 in the Technology and Procurement Division of Finance (under John Sheridan, the CTO of Australia) and in charge of Australian national open data site http://data.gov.au/

In 2014 Andrews was recognised for innovation and named one of Australia's 100 Women of Influence 2014 in The Australian Financial Review and Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards.

Andrews was included in the 2018 list of the world's 100 most influential people in digital government, by Apolitical Group.

In August 2018 Andrews was appointed Executive Director of Digital Government in the New South Wales Department of Finance, Services and Innovation.

In February 2020 Andrews was appointed Special Advisor, Digital & Client Data Workstream Lead for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).

Free software community and volunteer positions Andrews has held several positions in the Free Software community: Judge at the inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards, 17 October 2007 President, Software Freedom International, the organising body of Software Freedom Day, 2006–2008 Member, organising committee for linux.conf.au 2007 Second recipient of the Rusty Wrench award for Service to the Australian Open Source Community at linux.conf.au 2006. Vice-president of Linux Australia, 2005–2007 President of Linux Australia, 2003–2004