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Chris Ingham is Deputy CEO, Training and Skills at Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority, Victoria’s education sector regulator.

Since joining the VRQA in 2012, Chris’ regulatory responsibilities have covered the apprenticeship and traineeship sector, schools, registered training organisations, child safe standards, and home schooling. 

Chris is currently the Delegate under the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (‘the Act’), responsible for apprenticeship and traineeship regulation and regulation of some registered training organisations. Chris also manages the VRQA’s communications.

Although group training is not specifically referenced in the Act, Chris also looks after group training registration and assessment against the national standards.

Before life as a regulator, Chris was a policy executive in the (former) Department of Education and Training, covering vocational education and training and youth transitions. Chris also spent three years at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra, covering education, immigration, border protection and multiculturalism.  He is an ANZSOG (Australia and New Zealand School of Government) Executive Fellow (2016).

Chris enjoys writing in his spare time and has released 6 self-published novels on Amazon.