Megan Hughes
Associate Director, Research, Practice & InnovationMegan Hughes is a lawyer, writer and policy adviser with experience working in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Megan is an experienced lawyer, researcher and policy adviser who has worked across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. She has strong expertise in social justice policy, administrative and commercial law, governance and integrity best practice. She has worked on a number of significant justice and regulatory reform projects in areas including improving access to justice and has contributed to two of Victoria’s recent Royal Commissions.
At the CIJ, Megan works across the Research, Practice and Innovation Team’s three core areas of focus: restorative justice; disability justice and First Nations justice. She has experience working across multi-disciplinary teams, conducting focus groups and interviews, as well as participating in co-design projects alongside people with lived experience. Many of these projects have involved the creation of new models or processes incorporating therapeutic and restorative justice practices. Megan has strong stakeholder relationship skills and the ability to bring people together to achieve mutually agreed goals.
Prior to joining the CIJ, Megan was based in Europe and operated a boutique legal and consulting practice working with a range of clients across Europe and Australia including pro bono human rights work supporting victims of human rights abuses in global sport. Prior to that she held legal, policy and governance roles within law firms, statutory bodies and government. She has also worked as an Adviser to the Attorney-General and Minister for Racing. She is also an experienced non-executive director.