B Comm, FCPA, FCA, FAICD

Miss Alexander is Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, a Director of Medibank Private and a consultant to Ashurst. She is also an Independent Director of DEXUS Funds Management Limited, Chair of DEXUS Wholesale Property Limited and a member of the Board Audit and Board Risk and Sustainability Committees. She was a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1977 to 2002, a former National President of CPA Australia, National Chair of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Deputy Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council. Miss Alexander has also served on the Boards of Boral and AMCOR Limited and as the Chair of CSL Limited.

LL.B (Adel) 1966

Master of the Supreme Court of Queensland, 1990;
Judge of the Supreme Court since 1992;
Deputy President of the Defence Force Discipline Appeals Tribunal since 2008;
Commander RANR 2003-2010;
Member of the Senate of the University of Queensland 1993-2009 and Deputy Chancellor 2006-2009;
Awarded a Centenary Medal for services to law in 2003;
Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in January 2013.

LL.B, LL.M (Adel)

Justice Blokland was admitted to legal practice in 1981 and worked as a lawyer and legal academic for twenty years. She worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service in the top end of the Northern Territory and the Australian Legal Aid Office. She has taught criminal law, evidence and public international law and she was Senior Lecturer and the Dean of the Northern Territory University Law Faculty (now Charles Darwin University). She was also General Counsel to the Director of Public Prosecutions and practised as a barrister at James Muirhead Chambers. She was appointed Magistrate in the Northern Territory in 2002, Chief Magistrate in 2006 and Judge of the Supreme Court in 2010. She has served on numerous community, education and professional boards.

BA, post graduate Diploma in Social Work, UWA; qualifications in Commercial Law, Curtin University.

Ms Brazier’s experience is in the area of services to children, families, disability services and consumer protection. She worked in the public sector, predominately in Western Australia for over thirty five years. From 2006 to 2011 she was the Director General of the then Department for Community Development in WA. She is a former member of the Council of Edith Cowan University and the Boards of Ngala, the YMCA and Westcare Industries. She is currently the Chair and Trustee of the Sister Kate’s Children’s 1934-1953 Foundation, and Deputy Chair of the Board of Parkerville Children and Youth Care, and the Board of Governors of Fairbridge WA Inc.

LL.B, MPA, MAICD

Ms Cain has over 20 years of Australian and international media experience in a variety of journalist, corporate and political advisory roles. She has worked as a journalist in the NSW and Federal Press Galleries, as a ministerial media adviser, as Director of Communications and Media for a leading Australian corporate and in the US White House during the 1996 Presidential Elections. She is Managing Director of Australian Public Affairs and also serves on the Boards of NSW Crime Stoppers and the NSW Parents Council. Ms Cain is an International Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Public Affairs and a public affairs commentator in the media.

Ms Cain was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1996.

MBA, B Bus, FAICD, FAHRI, FAMI

Ms Cannon is currently the Chair of Credit Union SA, a Director of the Leaders Institute of SA Inc, a member of BreastScreen SA Advisory Committee, a member of the BreastScreen SA Ministerial Review Steering Committee. She is also a Director of Bizbuild Pty Ltd, a management consulting business.

LL.B (Hons) (Melb)

Justice Dessau has been a judge in the Family Court of Australia since 1995. Prior to that she was a magistrate in the Children’s Court, Coroner’s Court and Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, and formerly a barrister at the Victorian Bar, and Senior Crown Counsel in Hong Kong.
She has had a long-standing involvement in various community organisations, boards, and councils including school, hospital, opera and football organisations. She was the founding chair of the Essendon Women’s Network, and was appointed to the AFL Commission in 2009.
In 2010 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.
Justice Dessau was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1994.

FCA, FAICD

Mr Fennell is a Principal of the firm Christopher R. Fennell Chartered Accountant and was formerly a Principal of Pitcher Partners Chartered Accountants and now consults to that firm. He practices in corporate transactions, consults to small to medium sized clients in various industries and maintains a number of directorships in industry and investment.

FCPA, SF Fin

Mr Guthrey has extensive work and board experience in a wide range of organisations in the private, Government and not for profit sectors both within Australia and overseas. He is formerly a Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of Co-operative Bulk Handling Limited and its subsidiaries, Chairman of the State Housing Commission of WA, the Art Gallery of WA and other organisations.

BA (Bkg & Fin), MBA, FAICD, FFinsia

Ms O’Donnell’s current positions include non-executive directorships of AICD, Equity Trustees Ltd, Community CPS Australia Ltd and Eastwoods Group Ltd. She is also an Independent Member, Audit and Evaluation Committee, IP Australia and an External Member Compliance Committee UBS Global Asset Management (Australia) Ltd.
Ms O’Donnell’s former positions include Managing Director and CEO Australian Ethical Investment Ltd, non-executive directorships of Grain Growers Ltd, Financial Services Council and the Centre for Australian Ethical Research Pty Ltd. She also has extensive knowledge of the superannuation and financial sectors gained from over 32 years in industry. Ms O’Donnell participated in the AICD Chairmen’s Mentoring Program 2011-2012 and in 2008 was the ACT finalist of Telstra Business Women of the Year.

BA(ANU)

Commonwealth Public Servant, 1953-90;
Private Secretary (Chief of Staff) to the Minister for the Interior and the Minister for Works, 1958-63;
Secretary to the Federal Executive Council, 1971-73;
Head of the Government Branch, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 1971-73;
Official Secretary (Chief of Staff) to five Governors-General, 1973-90;
Inaugural Secretary of the Order of Australia, 1975-90;
Visiting Fellow, Division of Politics and Economics, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU 1991-92;
Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, ANU, 1998-99;
Visiting Scholar, College of Law, ANU, 2000-07.

MBBS (Adel), FRACP

Dr Thomson is a Pre-eminent Staff Specialist and Director of Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Services at Princess Alexandra Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Queensland University, Brisbane. He is a member of the Queensland Hospitals Medication Advisory Committee, the Oncology Education Committee of the Cancer Council Australia and the Editor in Oncology for the Internal Medicine Journal. He has an extensive research interest in melanoma and germ cell tumours. He was a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and is currently a member of Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, Australian Doctors Orchestra and Sinfonia of St Andrews.

MBBS, LL.B, FRCS, FRACS, FACLM, FAICD

Mr Turner holds the position of Chairman of MIPS and Deputy Chairman of MIPS Insurance, having previously been a Director of both Professional Insurance Australia and MIPS. Based in Hobart, he has been a successful orthopaedic surgeon for over 28 years. He is also the current President of The Medical Protection Society of Tasmania Inc., Director of Queensland Doctors Mutual Pty Ltd and Professional Management Australia Pty Ltd. Former positions he has held include Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board at Hobart Private Hospital, and Director of Rehab Tasmania.

MBBS (Qld), MBA (Harvard), FAICD

Dr Wilson is an Independent Director of Sonic Healthcare Ltd and a member of the Board, Risk and Remuneration committees. Dr Wilson is also a Director of CathRx Ltd, Universal Biosensors Inc, General Sir John Monash Foundation, Churchie Foundation Board and Barambah Wines.

She is a Member of the University of Queensland Senate, the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Finance Committee. Dr Wilson is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, past Queensland President and National Board Director of AICD. She also served as Chairman of IMBcom (the University of Queensland’s commercialisation company for the Institute for Molecular Bioscience), the inaugural Chairman of Horticulture Australia Ltd and as a Director of the National Archives Advisory Council, WorkCover Qld, Energex Ltd and as a member of the Conoco Advisory Board. Dr Wilson is also a Director of BUPA Australia Ltd and the BUPA Foundation Ltd.