Program speakers

Professor Joan Leach

Director, Australian Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, The Australian National University
Anne Leadbeater OAM

Director, Leadbeater Group Pty Ltd
Professor Sarah Leberman

Professor of Leadership, School of Management, Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa
Dr Emma Lee

Professor, National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth and Justice, Global Engagement, Federation University Australia
Professor Michael Leiter

Professor of Organisational Psychology, School of Psychology, Deakin University
Ursula Dyer Lepporoli

Partner & Victorian Tax Lead, Global Mobility Services, KPMG Australia
Barbara Livesey

Executive Director, GAPP Consulting Services
Professor Birgit Loch

Dean of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law, University of New England
Ms Aileen Loi

Faculty General Manager, Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University
Professor Linley Lord

Pro Vice-Chancellor and President, Curtin Singapore
Ms Natalie MacDonald

Vice-President, Strategy and Development, La Trobe University
Professor Claire Macken

Pro Vice-Chancellor and General Director, RMIT University Vietnam
Professor Swee Mak

Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research Capability), and Professor of Innovation
Ms Michele Martin

Co-creator, The Data Experience, Swinburne University of Technology
Dr Anne Martin AM

Director, Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre, The Australian National University
Ms Pauliina Mattila

Coach and Lecturer, Design Factory Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology
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
Michelle Melbourne

Digital Strategist, Non-Executive Director, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Deputy Chair, ANU Foundation
Ms Jessie Mitchell

Manager, South and Southeast Asia, International Engagement, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victorian Government
Honorary Associate Professor Sally Moyle

College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, and former Chief Executive, CARE Australia
Professor Paddy Nixon

Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
Associate Professor Nana Oishi

Associate Professor in Japanese Studies, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
Professor Yin Paradies

Chair in Race Relations and Indigenous Knowledges and Culture Coordinator, Deakin University
Professor Helen Partridge

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Teaching and Learning, Deakin University
Ms Sonia Pechner

Executive Director, Academic Search International
Dr Janine Pickering

Senior Management Consultant, Consulting & Implementation Services, and ‘Pracademic’, Swinburne University of Technology
Ms Bambi Price

Co-Founder at StudentPartnerships, and Director, Tron Systems
Professor Pascale Quester

Vice-Chancellor and President, Swinburne University of Technology
Katrina Reynen OAM

Ambassador, Skyline Education Foundation, Managing Director, Brightest Horizons, Principal Consultant at Melbourne Business School and Chair of the Advisory Board for Monash University Centre for Youth Policy and Education Priorities
Ms Deanna Riach

Academic Registrar, Executive, Student Life, Griffith University
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 Sarah Russell

Group Leader, Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Swinburne University of Technology