Brenton is Executive Director of Strategy and Policy in the South Australian Department of the Premier and Cabinet. He has twenty-five years of experience at the intersection of public policy, innovation, and reform, during which time he has advised governments and multilateral institutions in over twenty countries on ways to strengthen their innovation capabilities. Brenton was the founding Executive Director of States of Change, a global learning collective of public innovation practitioners, as well as the founding CEO of The Australian Centre for Social Innovation. He was an Executive Director at the UK's innovation foundation, Nesta, from 2013-19. He began his career as a graduate in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Brenton holds a master's degree in public administration, and further degrees in Economics and International Relations.