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


FELLOWSHIPS

  • Australian Academy of Law

  • Governance Institute of Australia

  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ROLES

Current roles

Previous roles


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