Antoinette le Marchant (Chair)

Antoinette le Marchant is the former CEO of KU Children's Services, having recently retired after 13 years with the organisation. Antoinette has had a long senior career in the NSW and Federal public services, including at the Cabinet Office, Attorney General’s Department and NSW Transport as well as Comcare, the Federal Government’s workers compensation and occupational health and safety agency. She is a former editor of the Australian Quarterly and director of the Australian Institute of Political Science, its publisher. She is on the NSW Government’s Social Justice Reference Group and the NSW Motor Accident Authority as well as on the Central Sydney Planning Committee.

John Menadue AO

John Menadue was Private Secretary to Gough Whitlam from 1960 to 1967. He then served seven years as General Manager of News Limited, Sydney. He headed the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1974 to 1976, working for Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser. After four years as Ambassador to Japan, he returned to Australia in 1980 to head the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. He was CEO of Qantas between 1986 and 1989, and continues to advise several national companies. He has recently chaired major Health reviews in NSW and SA. He was the founding chair of the Centre for Policy Development.

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Anna Booth

Anna Booth is a director of the workplace relations consultancy, CoSolve, which she co-founded in 1999. CoSolve provides independent mediation, facilitation and arbitration services in workplaces in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. She is also a board member of Members Equity Bank and non-executive chair of the law firm Slater & Gordon. Anna is a former national trade union official with corporate experience arising from executive positions and membership of boards, including the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG).

Tony Douglas

Tony Douglas is a director of media and polling group Essential Media Communications, which specializes in campaigns on public education, the environment, workers rights and other public issues. Prior to EMC, Tony was a broadcast journalist, designing and producing Australia’s first national environment radio program, ‘Watching Brief’, and helping design and manage Radio Australia’s regional environment information project with AusAID (1990-1992).

Chloë Flutter

Chloë Flutter works for The Boston Consulting Group. Since joining BCG in 2004, she has worked for a range of clients in manufacturing, retail, transport, financial services and the public sector. Prior to joining BCG, Chloë worked in international development, including for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the NGO Olympic Aid/Right To Play. She also co-authored a Lowy Institute Paper on Australian expatriates. Chloë has a Bachelor of Economics from the ANU and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Sydney. She also completed a doctorate on employment policy at the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Martin Foley

Martin Foley is a former senior adviser in the Victorian Government and former Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Services Union. Now Member for Albert Park, he has a longstanding interest in progressive policy change and ways in which new forms of decision making and democratic participation can be fostered in the lives of Australians.

Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones is the National Secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), taking up a three year term from 1st January 2006. Stephen has worked in the union movement for 15 years including twelve years with the CPSU and 2 years at the ACTU. In that time, he has worked as an organiser, lawyer and elected union official in the union's public and private sector areas. Stephen’s areas of interest include public administration and the role of government, human rights and telecommunications policy.

Andrew Rothery

Andrew Rothery was the founder and executive chairman of Archer Capital, a leading Australian private equity investing firm. He left Archer Capital at the end of 2006 after an 18 year career in the Australian private equity industry.  Andrew has also worked as a lawyer (for Freehills) and as a management consultant (for McKinsey & Company). He now acts as a consultant to the Michael Reid group of companies and Vericap Finance. Andrew recently accepted an invitation to become the non-excutive chairman of the Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association. He is also on the board of the International Grammar School.

Anne De Salis

Anne has held senior executive roles with AMP Limited, MBF Australia Pty Ltd and the Commonwealth Treasury. She was also a Senior Advisor to then Prime Minister Paul Keating. 

Currently, Anne is a non-executive director of the NSW TAFE Commission and Members Equity Bank Pty Ltd, as well as a trustee for two large public sector super funds. Anne runs a business as an independent consultant/executive coach working with The Academy Network and Executive Coaching International. As a member of Chief Executive Women and McCarthy Mentoring, she also supports and mentors young women in business. Anne worked with large Australian businesses as Group Executive, Corporate Culture and Communications, at MBF and as General Manager of AMP’s large corporate superannuation business.

Prior to joining Prime Minister Keating’s Office, Anne worked in the Commonwealth Treasury as an economic adviser to the Federal Government.  In 1991 she became the first woman to join Treasury’s senior executive service since Federation. She completed her masters degree at the ANU and became a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors in 2002.

Kate Miller

Kate Miller has had extensive senior executive experience in media, government and arts organisations. For many years a producer and broadcaster with ABC Radio particularly Radio National, she then became ABC Manager Regionals in Western Australia and then Radio Manager, State Manager and State Director of the ABC in New South Wales. Kate worked for the ABC as a broadcaster and senior manager from 1974 till 2000.
Kate became Chair of the Advisory Council of the Sydney Institute of Technology, the largest TAFE in NSW in 2001 (2001-2005). In 2003 Kate was appointed Government Relations Manager for the NSW Department for Women.

Kate became the General Manager of the Barking Gecko Theatre Company, (Western Australia’s specialist theatre company for children). Kate is presently a member of the Board of Artsource, the peak body for visual artists in Western Australia. Previous Board experiences include membership of the 1980’s government inquiry into community services in Western Australia plus membership of a major teaching hospital.