Fiona David: Why we need a humane response to migration

Nov 29, 2021

As a law student at ANU, Women on Boards member Fiona David was already tipped as “destined to work on social justice issues.”

This was later confirmed when Perth-born Fiona spent a short stint in corporate law which set her instead on an international path to social justice issues. As she tells Claire in this...

Building a Portfolio Career, Mustering Cattle and Surviving the witness box in the Banking Royal Commission

Nov 14, 2021

Victoria Weekes has had a long, impressive, and principled board career.  She is an accomplished non-executive director with experience across a diverse range of business sectors in listed and major private and public sector organizations.

Migrating to Australia at the age of two, she spent much of her teenage years on...

Turf love: How horse lover and Australian Turf Club Chair Trish Egan harnessed her passion

Oct 29, 2021

Trish Egan is a born and bred Sydney girl, but she has had a lifelong love of horses from a young age, further fuelled when Dad would take her to the races as a child. Looking back, 12-year-old Trish - who secretly penned a letter to the Chairman of the Australian Jockey Club asking how she could secure her “dream...

Taking charge: Engineering’s first lady Dr Bronwyn Evans PhD AM

Oct 25, 2021

It’s no surprise Dr Bronwyn Evans AM sticks by the mantra ‘everyone’s an engineer’. As CEO of Australia’s peak engineering body Engineers Australia and recognised as one of the country’s 100 most influential engineers, she can’t understand why everyone doesn’t want to work in her chosen field.

A...