Darryl S.L. Jarvis is a professor at the College of Public Policy (CPP). He serves as co-editor of Policy & Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy Research, co-editor of the series Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy (Palgrave), and co-editor of the series Policy & Power (Routledge). He is the recipient of various grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC), Ministry of Education, Singapore, the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN), and the University Grants Committee, General Research Fund, Hong Kong. He has also served as chief researcher for the Ministry of Finance, Japan, on the Building Institutional Capacity in Asia (BICA) project, and as a consultant for organizations in Asia including the Asian Development Bank.

Professor Jarvis was educated in Australia and Canada where he received his doctorate from the University of British Columbia.