Board of Trustees

 Michael Rose

Michael Rose (Chairman) is the Chief Executive Partner of law firm Allens. He is a board member of ChildFund Australia and the ChildFund International Alliance. ChildFund is an international aid and development organisation that supports children and their communities in 55 developing countries. Michael is also a member of the Education, Skills and Innovation and the Indigenous Engagement task forces of the Business Council of Australia. He lives in Sydney with his wife, Jo D'Antonio, and their three children. Michael was appointed as a Trustee in June 2010.

Bruce Hambrett

 Bruce Hambrett LLM is a practising lawyer, the chairman of Baker & McKenzie, Australia, and a former General Counsel of SingTel Optus Pty Limited. He is also a Director of the Pacific Opera Company Limited and a former chair of the Media and Communications Law Committee, Business Law Section, with the Law Council of Australia. He was re-appointed as a Trustee on 7 November 2012 and his current term expires on 31 December 2015.

Peter Tonkin

 Peter Tonkin BScArch (Hons), BArch (Hons), FRAIA is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of Canberra and the University of Queensland, and is widely published. He is a partner of Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects; winner of more than 90 awards. His projects include the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, the National Memorial to the Australian Vietnam Forces, the Tomb of an Unknown Australian Soldier and the National Arboretum, Canberra, the refurbishment of Customs House, the multi-award winning Plaza Lighting Towers for the Sydney Olympics, and the Australian War Memorial in London. Peter was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2005 and his current term expires on 31 December 2013.

Keith Cottier

 Keith Cottier AM, AASTC, LFRAIA is a Director of the highly awarded architectural firm Allen Jack+Cottier. In 2001 he was awarded the Gold Medal, the Royal Australian Institute of Architects’ highest honour. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004. Keith has served as a Commissioner of the Australian Heritage Commission, as a Member of the Heritage Council of New South Wales, and as a Member of the Sydney Cove Authority and the City West Development Corporation. His high-profile projects include Wylie’s Baths, the Argyle Centre, the Submarine Mine Depot at Chowder Bay and Penfold’s Magill Estate in Adelaide. Keith was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2007 and his current term expires 31 December 2013.

Grace Karskens

 Associate Professor Grace Karskens BA, MA, PhD FAHA teaches Australian history at the University of New South Wales. Grace has published extensively including Inside The Rocks: the archaeology of a neighbourhood, the multi-award winning The Rocks: life in early Sydney and The colony: a history of early Sydney, which won the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and is on the boards of the Dictionary of Sydney, the National Museum of Australia’s reCollections journal and a number of international scholarly journals. Grace was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2008 and her current term expires on 31 December 2013.

Roderick Simpson

Associate Professor Roderick Simpson AAIA MPIA is a principal of Simpson + Wilson Architecture + Urban Design, and Associate Professor of Urban Design at the University of Sydney with interests in urban renewal and regeneration, ecologically sustainable design and strategic urban design. He has worked with the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, and contributed to the HHT’s Harbourings exhibition at the Museum of Sydney. He co-authored Greenpeace’s Strategy for a Sustainable Sydney in 1992, applying many of the principles in future planning work. Most recently, he led the urban design of the Sustainable Sydney 2030 Strategy for the City of Sydney. Roderick was appointed as Trustee in January 2011 and his current term expires on 31 December 2013.

Andrew Tink

Andrew Tink BA, LLB, HonDLitt is a visiting fellow at Macquarie University’s law school. After eight years at the bar and nineteen years in the NSW Parliament, where among other things he was shadow attorney-general and shadow leader of the House, Andrew stepped back from active politics to focus on writing. In 2010, his biography of William Charles Wentworth won the “Nib” CAL Waverley Award for Literature. His second book, a biography of Lord Sydney, was published in 2011. And his third, the story of Canberra’s 1940 air disaster, will be released in 2013. Andrew, who is a member of the Library Council of NSW, was appointed as trustee on 22 May 2012 and his current term expires on 22 May 2015.   

Louise-McElvogue-trustee

Louise McElvogue is a principal of Macleod Media which advises on strategy, technology and media.  Louise works with boards, government and executives to set business strategy and policy and to develop e-business, partnerships and digital efficiencies. She has worked in the US, Europe and Australia for clients including McDonald's, Invensys, the ABC, News Limited, Channel 4, the BBC and Societe Generale. Louise was a member of the Federal Government's Convergence Review in 2012. This landmark review of Australia's media and internet regulatory framework recommended a new approach to regulation. She has a background in journalism and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times Media, Wall St Journal TV, the BBC and CNN. Louise was appointed a Trustee in March 2013 for a three year period.

Paddy-Carney

Paddy Carney is a registered company auditor, a Partner at PwC and is also a member of its Board of Partners in Australia. She has over 20 years financial experience with PwC in the UK and Australia across a broad range of clients with a focus on the retail and consumer sector.  She is also a Governor of the Sir David Martin Foundation which aims to get more young people off the streets, away from unhealthy situations and into care and rehabilitation. Paddy was appointed as a Trustee in March 2013.