B Comm, FCPA, FCA, FAICD

Miss Alexander is Chairman of CSL Limited, Director of Medibank Private and Dexus Property Group and Chair of their Audit Committees. She is a member of the Takeover Panel and Chair of the Board of Advice to the Salvation Army (Southern Command), a member of the Council of Melbourne University and Chair of the Finance Committee. She is also a Director of Australian International Health. She was a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1977 to 2002, a former National President of CPA Australia, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Deputy Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council.

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 since 2003;
Member of the Senate of the University of Queensland since 1993;
Deputy Chancellor since 2006;
Awarded a Centenary Medal for services to law in 2003.

LL.B, LL.M (Adel)

Ms 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 and Chief Magistrate in 2006. She has served on numerous community, education and professional boards.

BA, Dip Soc Work (UWA), Grad Cert Com Law (Curtin)

Ms Brazier is a social worker with extensive experience in child, family and community services, disability services and consumer protection. From 2001 to 2006 she was the Director General of the Department for Community Development in WA. She has her own consultancy, is an adjunct professor at Curtin University (WA), and is Chairperson of the Sister Kate’s Children’s 1934-1953 Foundation, Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Management of Parkerville Children and Youth Care and a member of the Board of Governors of Fairbridge WA.

LLB, 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 on a Churchill Fellowship. She is the Executive Director of the public relations firm Australian Public Affairs and is the Founding Head of the HammondCare Foundation. Tracey also serves as an International Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Public Affairs and as a member of the Board of CrimeStoppers NSW.

MBA, B Bus, FAHRI, GAICD, MACUI

Ms Cannon is currently the Chair of Credit Union SA, a Trustee with the South Australian Country Arts Trust, a Member of the Information Economy Advisory Board and Immediate Past President of the Australian Human Resources Institute SA. She is also a Director of Bizbuild Pty Ltd, her management consulting business.

Ms Cannon’s past positions include Director of Queensland Arts Council, Vice President of Adelaide College of TAFE, Council member of SA Division of Business Advisory Committee and SA Representative of Breast Cancer Network Australia. She has extensive business experience from her senior national roles as HR Director in international consumer products and FMCG companies and as a consultant with a top five chartered accounting firm.

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.

Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors.

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, FAICD, 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 currently a Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of Co-operative Bulk Handling Limited and its subsidiaries.

B.Ec., LL.B (Hons), M.Ec.

Attorney, Allen Allen & Hemsley, 1981-85;
Samuel Montagu (now HSBC) London, 1986-88;
ING Group, 1988-2002;
Chairman, National Committee for the UN Year of Microcredit, 2005;
Vice President-Acquisitions and Investments, Opportunity International 2002-present.

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, a member of 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 for 7 years and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra for 5 years and is currently a member of Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, Australian Doctors Orchestra and Sinfonia of St Andrews. He has previously been a stage manager for Queensland Orchestra Two and Vice-Chair of the Friends of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music.

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

Director and Chairman, Medical Indemnity Protection Society Ltd;
Director and Deputy Chairman, MIPS Insurance Pty Ltd;
President, Medical Protection Society of Tasmania;
Director, Queensland Doctors’ Mutual Pty Ltd; Director, Professional Management Australia Pty Ltd;
Director, MIPS Holdings Pty Ltd;
Former Director Professional Insurance Australia Pty Ltd.

MBBS (Qld), MBA (Harvard), FAICD

Chairman, IBMcom Ltd;
Director of CathRx Ltd, UQ Holdings ltd, Universal Biosensors Inc, Union College, Churchie Foundation Ltd;
Member, AICD Director Advisory Service, University of Queensland Senate.