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Professor Denise Bradley AC
Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley AC was Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia (UniSA), the largest university in South Australia from 1997-2007, the third woman ever selected as a president of an Australian university. Emeritus Professor Bradley has been extensively involved in national education policy groups for more than two decades. She was a member of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission (CTEC) (1986–1988) and a member of the National Board of Employment, Education and Training (1988–1994). She was a member of the TAFE Council of CTEC (1983–1986); a member of the Advanced Education Advisory Council of CTEC (1986–1988); a member of the Commonwealth Review of TAFE funding in 1985; a member of the Higher Education Council of National Board of Employment, Education and Training (1988–1994); and its Deputy Chair (1991–1994). In 2002 she was a member of the Australian Government’s Higher Education Review Reference group. In 2008 she chaired the Expert Panel which undertook the National Review of
Higher Education.
Her other significant national roles have included: Foundation Director of the Australian Universities Quality Agency (2000–2003); President and Chair of IDP Education Australia Limited (2005–2007); Treasurer (2002–2005) and Executive Member of the International Association of University Presidents (2005–2007); Member of the Board of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (2003–2007); Member of the Board of Directors of the Australian – American Fulbright Commission (2003–2007); and
Member of the Board of Directors of the Business/Higher Education Round Table (1999–2007).
She is currently President of the Australian College of Educators, Chair of the South Australian Training and Skills Commission, a Board member of the Education Investment Fund Advisory Board, a member of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, a member of the NSW National Partnerships Evaluation Committee and Chair of VERNet. Emeritus Professor Bradley has been a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators since 1982. She has served as a judge for the 2006 and 2008 international Rolex awards for Enterprise. In 1995 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of her service to education and to educational policy in schools and universities, particularly in relation to access and equity for women and girls. In 2003 she was awarded a Centenary Medal. In 2005 was named the South Australian of the Year, for her significant contributions to the State. In 2006 Professor Bradley was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from Korea’s Pukyong National University and in 2007 was awarded Honorary Doctorates from UniSA and RMIT University.
The honorary title of Emeritus Professor was conferred following her retirement from UniSA. In 2009 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Association of Tertiary Education Management and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Australian Teaching and Learning Council. On Australia Day 2008 Professor Bradley was made a Companion of the Order Of Australia in recognition of her service to higher education through leadership and sector-wide governance, to the promotion of information-based distance learning and to the advancement of Australian educational facilities internationally.
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Wendy McCarthy AO
Wendy McCarthy began her career as a secondary school teacher and remains passionate about the power of education. For four decades she has been a teacher, educator and change agent in Australian public life. In 2005 she was nominated by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australia’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals.
She has worked with government, corporations and community based organisations in education, women’s issues, public health, heritage, media and waste management and she has held national leadership roles in all of these areas. It is this eclectic combination that gives her a unique profile and network nationally and internationally. She has represented Australia at conferences on women’s health and leadership, education, broadcasting, conservation and heritage and for four years was Chair of the Advisory Committee of WHO Kobe Centre, Japan.
Currently she is the Chair of Circus Oz; Chair of Headspace; Chair of McGrath Estate Agents; and Chair of Pacific Friends of the Global Fund. In November 2009, after 13 years of service, Wendy retired as the Vice-Chair of Plan International, Director of Plan International Australia, and as the Director of Plan Hong Kong.
Wendy’s consulting practice McCarthy Mentoring specialises in providing mentors to major corporations, the public sector and not for profit organisations to assist these organisations with issues around diversity, leadership and philanthropy.
In 1989 Wendy was appointed an officer of the Order of Australia for outstanding contributions to community affairs, women’s affairs and the Bicentennial celebrations. In 1996 the University of South Australia awarded her an honorary doctorate and in 2003 she was awarded a Centenary of Federation medal for business leadership.
Wendy is the author of seven books including her memoirs, Don’t Fence Me In, published in 2000 and One2One mentoring guides for mentors and mentees published in 2008.
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Amanda Ellis
Amanda Ellis is Lead Specialist, Gender and Development, for the World Bank Group. In this role Amanda spearheads a global research program, Economic Opportunities for Women. The program has created the World Bank Gender Law Library, cataloguing for the first time ever laws impacting women’s ability to be economically active, and is compiling the Women’s Economic Opportunity Index in partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit, which ranks over 100 countries. Amanda also manages the World Bank Group’s Global Private Sector Leaders Forum to promote women’s economic empowerment. Accenture, Cisco, McKinsey, Nike and PwC are among the 21 members.
Amanda founded the gender program at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 2004, assisting IFC clients in developing countries, providing lines of credit for women SMEs through commercial banks and practical initiatives to assist women entrepreneurs with business and management training, and to access markets. Within two years gender inclusive projects at the IFC grew from only 2% to 23% of the advisory portfolio. Over $40m was committed to financing women entrepreneurs in Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania through the first ever SME credit lines for women in Africa.
Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Amanda was Head of Women’s Markets and National Manager for Women in Business at Westpac Banking Corporation, Australia where her team grew annual revenues by half a billion dollars in 3 years. An economist with specialization in international trade and development economics, Amanda previously worked as a diplomat for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for ten years, including roles at the OECD in Paris, NZ Consul to the French territories and manager of NZ aid programs in Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia.
Amanda is the author of two best selling Random House titles, Women’s Business, Women’s Wealth (2002), and Woman 2 Woman: New Zealand women share their experiences of career and business (2004), and lead author of three World Bank titles in the Directions in Development Series on gender and growth in Africa. Amanda is a founding and Board member of the Global Banking Alliance for Women and a member of Zonta International. She is married with a young son.
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Jane Sloane
Executive Director, International Women’s Development Agency
Jane previously held executive positions for Marie Stopes International, World Vision, AusAID, Austrade, as founding CEO of the Social Entrepreneurs Network and as General Manager, Sydney Media Centre for the Sydney Olympics. In 2005 Jane was awarded an Asia Pacific Business Women’s Council Woman of Distinction Award and a 2005 Churchill Fellowship to improve Humanitarian Emergency Response models for Australia and the region after the Asian tsunami.
In 2007 Jane was granted an Endeavour Professional Award to pilot a project to increase Pacific women’s political participation at local and national levels. Jane is one of 75 Australians trained by Al Gore as climate change messengers.
IWDA works in partnership with community-based organisations across the Asia- Pacific to implement programs designed to improve the lives of women and girls. Last year IWDA established a gender training and consultancy arm to influence national and international government agencies, donors and corporations in ensuring gendered approaches to the design and delivery of policies and programs. IWDA also launched an Asia-Pacific Breakthrough initiative modelled on a Washington event which attracted 1.4 billion in new funding for projects to benefit women and girls, as well as the creation of a new Women, Faith and Development Alliance. The focus of Asia-Pacific Breakthrough is new funding, policy influence, program modelling and movement building.
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Tracey Beck
Tracey holds a Diploma of Arts and Graduate Diploma of Education from Charles Sturt University, Australia. Following a year as an AFS exchange student in the USA, she taught in High Schools in NSW and supported curriculum development in the secondary education sector before moving into higher education in 1987. She worked in communications and marketing for over fifteen years at the University of New South Wales, firstly as Head of Publications and then Head of Marketing Development, before becoming the University’s first Marketing and Alumni Relations Manager in 1999. This role included building brand and marketplace positioning, and the management of alumni networks world-wide. During this period she was seconded to the Vice-Chancellor’s Office to manage the ‘University Image Project’, which was designed to increase and focus the marketplace visibility of UNSW. As a result, she produced the University’s first Identity Standards Manual, and oversaw its successful implementation across the campus of 5,000 staff. Tracey developed considerable expertise in building alumni loyalties in this role, specifically in the Asia-Pacific region. She managed a small events team responsible for over 50 alumni and Vice-Chancellor events per year, and managed the University’s corporate website. The development and management of the University’s CRM alumni/donor database (with over 120,000 records) improved significantly under Tracey’s leadership; and she managed the annual appeal, which increased gift income by 20% during her time at UNSW.
In 2005 Tracey moved to the University of Sydney as Annual Fund Manager, where she introduced new segmentation and donor acquisition strategies, resulting in Annual Fund gift income increases of 20% since 2005, and the number of donors growing by 33%. She was appointed Director of Alumni Relations in 2006, a position which draws on her extensive strengths in marketing and relationship management, bringing a wealth of expertise to Australia’s first University. She has increased alumni participation by 44%; increased visitors to the alumni website by 50%; introduced e-communication strategies and re-invigorated the University of Sydney Alumni Council. She is now Director of Alumni & Community Engagement at the University, and is focussed on the development of international strategies to increase alumni engagement and community outreach. She is a long-standing member of CASE, USA.
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Councillor Marcelle Hoff
Marcelle Hoff is an Independent Councillor with the Clover Moore Independent Team.
She has a background in adult education and psychology, and is a qualified counsellor.
Marcelle has a strong belief in social justice, and is committed to community participation in government.
She is also a passionate advocate for the protection of public lands.
Marcelle is member of the board of the Millers Point Youth and Employment Partnership and is the Lord Mayor’s alternate on the Sydney Festival Board. She is also a member of the Community Consultation Committee for the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre and a Trustee for the Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP Salary Trust.
Marcelle has a particular interest in ensuring that access and equity issues are identified and addressed for all
people in the City of Sydney.
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Dr Meredith Burgmann
Dr Meredith Burgmann was radicalised by her early anti War and anti Apartheid activities and subsequently became involved in the early feminist movement in the 1970s.
She worked as an Academic for 20 years researching areas such as equal pay and the situation of Aboriginal women. She did her PhD on the early environment movement and the construction industry in Sydney. She was the first woman President of the Academics Union of NSW. In 1988 she was a co-founder of the National Pay Equity Coalition. She was elected to Parliament in 1991 and was President of the NSW Legislative Council from 1999 – 2007.
Dr Burgmann is the longest serving woman Presiding Officer in Australia. She is a founding member of Emily’s List and a founder of the Ernie Awards for sexist behaviour, which have been awarded since 1993. She has co-authored two books, Green Bans: Red Union and 1000 Terrible Things Australian Men Have Said About Women. She is currently writing a book on ASIO. After retiring from Parliament she stood as the Labor Candidate for Lord Mayor of Sydney and is now President of the Australian Council For International Development, the peak council for Australia’s Aid Agencies.
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WATSA
Developed in 2008, WATSA is a hands-on project that aims to increase the number of young Indigenous women attending The University of Sydney and The Women’s College.
In 2009, two student groups from The Women’s College travelled to outback NSW and Cape York in Queensland to meet young Indigenous women and learn about their communities. The Women’s College students ran tailored programs and workshops to inspire Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander women to consider tertiary education.
Twenty young Indigenous women from these areas attended a week long Leadership Camp at The Women’s College from 29 August to 5 September 2009.
The WATSA presentation will report on these activities.
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