MURAT DIZDAR

Murat Dizdar PSM, Deputy Secretary, School Performance – South, is a senior leader of the NSW Department of Education who oversees the provision of a quality public education for students in over 2,200 schools.

Murat co-leads the School Performance division that provides support to 80,000 teachers and school leaders to deliver a high-quality education for over 800,000 students. The School Performance division consists of teams that are responsible for school planning, ongoing self-assessment and external validation, annual reporting and policy implementation. Murat presided over the Bushfire Strategy, that supported communities devastated by the 2019/2020 fires, and is the executive sponsor for the Connected Communities directorate, that strengthens the educational outcomes for Aboriginal students.

Murat’s career with the NSW Department of Education began as a social sciences teacher at Ashcroft High School. He has experience in a range of school leadership roles including being senior principal of Belmore and Punchbowl Boys High School.

Murat holds a Bachelor of Education (Secondary Humanities) majoring in Economics and Geography from the University of Sydney, and recently undertook the Leadership for the 21st Century course at Harvard Kennedy School.

Murat was awarded the Australia Day Public Service Medal in 2016, an Australian Council of Educational Leaders (ACEL) NSW Fellowship in 2019, an ACEL National Fellowship in 2020 and the Nanga Mai Department of Education and NSW AECG Inc Partnership Award 2021.