Jo Cribb is a New Zealand civil servant who headed the Ministry for Women.
Cribb is a graduate of Cambridge University and has a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington in Public Policy that investigated the contracting relationship between governments and NGOs which completed in part as a New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women Fellow.
[3][4] Between 2012 and 2017, Cribb held the appointment as chief executive for the Ministry for Women Affairs.
Prior to this, she led policy and research functions at other New Zealand government agencies, such as the Ministry of Social Development, the Families Commission, the Department of Internal Affairs, and the State Services Commission.
[2] Cribb's book, Being Accountable: Voluntary Organisations, Government Agencies and Contracted Social Services in New Zealand (2007) analyzes the way that people in the voluntary sector view accountability to the government and nonprofit service providers.