Program speakers

2019 Academic Program


  • Professor Jo Barraket

    Director, Centre for Social Impact Swinburne, Swinburne University of Technology
  • Dr Amanda Caples

    Lead Scientist, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Victorian Government
  • Professor Rachel Caruso

    Director of the Enabling Capability Platform for Advanced Materials and Professor of Physical Chemistry, RMIT University
  • Ms Carolyn De Gois

    Deputy Secretary, Corporate Services, Department of Health & Human Services, Victoria
  • Professor Marcia Devlin

    Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Learning Enhancement, Victoria University
  • Professor Karen Farquharson

    Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences and Professor of Sociology, University of Melbourne
  • Ms Chloe Hall

    Manager – Culture, Leadership and Capability, La Trobe University
  • Ms Sam Hannah-Rankin

    Executive Director, Public Sector Reform, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victorian Government
  • Professor Karen Hapgood

    Executive Dean, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University
  • Ms Rana Hussain

    Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator, Richmond Football Club
  • Professor Liz Johnson

    Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education, Deakin University
  • Dr Dianne McCarthy CRSNZ CNZM

    Former Chief Executive of the Royal Society of New Zealand and co-founder of the New Zealand Universities Women in Leadership Programme
  • Professor Yin Paradies

    Chair in Race Relations and Indigenous Knowledges and Culture Coordinator, Deakin University
  • Ms Sonia Pechner

    Executive Director, Academic Search International
  • Professor Miranda Rose

    Principal Research Fellow and Director of the NHMRC funded Centre of Research Excellence in Aphasia Recovery and Rehabilitation, La Trobe University
  • Professor Elaine Saunders

    Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health, Arts & Design, Swinburne University of Technology, and Chair of the Swinburne Innovation Precinct Advisory Board
  • Dr Jennifer de Vries

    Organisational Consultant, Gender Researcher and Strategist
  • Lisa Watts

    CEO & Executive Director, The Conversation

Interested in learning more about WATTLE?