LEGAL ROLES

  • Senior Counsel - since 2015

  • Accredited Mediator and Arbitrator - since 2014

  • Disciplinary Tribunal Member Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand - 2021-2025

  • Called to the Bar - 1995

  • Lawyer, Mallesons Stephen Jacques (now King & Wood Mallesons) - 1994

  • Research Director to the Chief Justice of New South Wales, the Hon. Murray Gleeson AC - 1993

FELLOWSHIPS

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master of Laws, University of Sydney - 2004

  • Bachelor of Civil Law with First Class Honours, Balliol College, University of Oxford - 1995

    • Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Law to Oxford

  • Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours, University of Sydney - 1988-1992

    • 1993 Convocation Medal - ‘outstanding academic achievement and contribution to University life’ including as President of the University of Sydney Union and member of the Academic Board

    • Academic Prizes: Nancy Gordon Smith Prize at Graduation, Phillips Fox John L Mant Scholarship, Tress Cox Maddox Scholarship, Aaron Levine Prize for Criminal Law, Walter Reid Memorial Prizes

    • Sydney Law Review (Editor), Criminal Law Journal (Student Editor)

  • Bachelor of Economics (Social Sciences) [Government, Economics], University of Sydney - 1988-1990

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • Climate Governance, Australian Institute of Company Directors - 2025

  • Company Directors Course, Australian Institute of Company Directors - 2017

  • Trustee Directors Course, Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees - 2016

  • Harvard Program on Negotiation and Leadership - 2014

  • Fellowship and Award Writing, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators - 2014

  • American University Washington College of Law Program on International and US Anti-Corruption Law - 2014

  • Practitioner’s Certificate in Mediation, Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators - 2013

DISPUTE PANEL APPOINTMENTS

Mediator Panels

  • Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration

  • Supreme Court of New South Wales

  • District Court of New South Wales

  • Asian International Arbitration Centre

Arbitral Panels

  • Australian Energy Regulator

  • National Broadband Network (Wholesale Access Disputes)

  • Essential Services Commission of South Australia

  • Economic Regulatory Authority of Western Australia

  • Asian International Arbitration Centre

BOARD ROLES

  • Director of Australian Cricket’s new registered charity, Players Cordon, also Chair of Governance Committee - since 2023

  • Director of Natural Hazards Research Australia, the national research organisation for natural hazards resilience and disaster risk reduction, and member of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee, and Statekholder Engagement Working Group - since 2022

  • Board member of Australian Cricket’s retirement investment fund, the Australian Cricketers Retirement Account - since 2019

  • Trustee director of $3.5bn APRA/ASIC regulated industry superfund Club Plus Super, also served on Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee, the Investment Committee, & Insurance & Claims Committee - 2015-2018

  • Trustee director of philanthropic fund the Menzies Foundation (Alumni representative) - 2004

  • Trustee director of the National Foundation of Australian Women - 2004

  • Director and later President of Australian Women Lawyers - 2000-2003

  • Director and later President of the Women Lawyers Association of New South Wales - 1998-2001

  • Director and later President of the University of Sydney Union, and appointed director of Wentworth Annexe Ltd and the University of Sydney Union Staff Superannuation Fund - 1989-1991

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ROLES

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ACADEMIC ROLES

  • Guest Lecturer, University of Sydney’s postgraduate law course Financial Services Law Compliance - since 2022

  • Guest Lecturer, Melbourne University’s postgraduate law course Superannuation Law and Regulation - since 2022

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New South Wale’s Centre for Law, Markets, and Regulation - 2016-2019

  • Adjunct Lecturer, Australian Graduate School of Management’s Executive MBA - 2000-2002

  • Lecturer, Contracts Law, University of New South Wales - 2000-2002

  • Tutor, Constitutional Law, University of Sydney - 1995

  • Tutor, Evidence Law, University of Sydney - 1993-1994

  • Researcher to the Dean & Challis Professor of International Law, Professor James Crawford, University of Sydney - 1991-1992

  • Researcher to Professor John Carter, University of Sydney - 1991-1992