Jo Scard

Who is Jo Scard?

Jo (Joanne) Elizabeth Scard is an adviser to the Rudd Labor Government. She attended St George Girls High School in Kogarah and then undertook an Arts and Law double degree at Macquarie University in Sydney. She began her working career as a speech writer to Federal Labor Senator Bruce Childs and then as an advisor to NSW Labor Government Minister Frank Walker. She then travelled to Asia, the Middle East and Europe, prior to spending seven years based in London, where she worked for the British Labour Party as a media advisor and political producer for British TV networks Channel Four and ITN. On returning to Australia, she took up the role of the Seven Network's political producer in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, based in Canberra. Jo then returned to advise the Labor Party as media advisor to Senator Peter Cook and Labor Leader Kim Beazley. In 1997, Jo took up the role as Director in the Sydney office of global public affairs and financial advisers. In 2008 she commenced her current role as a senior adviser to the Rudd Labor Government, in a whole of government role managing the Senate.