LEGAL ROLES
New South Wales Bar - 1995 | Victorian Bar - 2007 | Appointed Senior Counsel - 2015
Accredited Mediator and Arbitrator - since 2014
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
Research Assistant to the Dean & Challis Professor of International Law University of Sydney, James Crawford AC SC - 1991-1992
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ROLES
Current roles
Forum for Barristers and Advocates (Vice-Chair)
Bar Issues Commission Regulation Committee (Chair)
Climate Change Working Group (Co-Convenor)
Artificial Intelligence Working Group
Anti-Corruption Working Group
International Pension and Employee Benefits Lawyers Association
Regulatory Policy Committee
Superannuation Law Committee
Previous roles
Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand, Disciplinary Tribunal Member - 2021-2025
Australian Institute of Company Directors, Law Committee - 2018-2021
NSW Bar Association Council, and Barristers’ Benevolent Fund - 2019-2020
President, Australian Women Lawyers - 2002-2003
President, Women Lawyers Association of NSW - 1999-2001
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
NOT FOR PROFIT, CHARITY, AND TRUST BOARD DIRECTOR ROLES
Current roles
Australian Cricketers Retirement Account, Australian Cricket’s retirement investment fund - since 2019
Natural Hazards Research Australia, the national research organisation for natural hazards resilience and disaster risk reduction, also member and incoming Chair of the Risk, Audit & Compliance Committee - since 2022
Players Cordon, Australian cricket’s community charity (Public Benevolent Institution), also Chair of the Governance Committee - since 2023
Previous roles
Trustee director of $3.5bn APRA/ASIC regulated industry superfund Club Plus Super, also member of the Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee, the Investment Committee, & the Insurance & Claims Committee - 2015-2018
Trustee director of philanthropic fund the Menzies Foundation - 2004
Trustee director of the National Foundation of Australian Women - 2004
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 COURSES
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
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
Adj. Associate Professor, University of New South Wale’s Centre for Law, Markets, and Regulation - 2016-2019
Adj. 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