Mike Allen is the Chief Executive of Housing NSW, Department of Family and Community Services. Housing NSW is the largest social housing provider in the Southern Hemisphere – providing housing assistance to around 450,000 people annually and with the responsibility for the tenancy management of 150,987 properties.

Since joining Housing NSW, Mike has accrued over 30 years experience in social housing management, including community and Aboriginal housing.

He manages Housing NSW relationships at a national level and leads the planning and delivery of major policy reforms and programs.

In 2011, Australia Day Honours, he was awarded the Public Service Medal in recognition of his outstanding and meritorious services to the community and for his strong commitment to the values and principles of social housing and providing high quality housing services for those most in need.

Martin was formerly Director-General of the Community Services Directorate, ACT Government, a role which took in responsibility for key social services including disability, child protection, juvenile justice, therapeutic services, public housing and homelessness. In this role he made a significant contribution to strategy and policy and the ACT whole-of-government agenda.

Prior to this Martin has held a number of senior positions in other ACT Government agencies and has worked as an advisor to a member of the ACT Legislative Assembly. He has also played a key role in a number of Ministerial Advisory Councils and supported Ministers at Ministerial Council meetings across the portfolios of Housing, Community and Disability Services, Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and Employment, Education, Early Childhood, Training and Youth Affairs.