Authors

Articles by Dr Katrina Bramstedt

Katrina Bramstedt is an ethicist with 20 years’ experience across several sectors including healthcare, education, and biotechnology. She obtained her PhD from Monash University and completed a Fellowship in ethics at UCLA. She holds the role of adjunct Professor at Bond University. Prior, she was the Chief Executive of the Luxembourg Agency for Research Integrity and the Sr Ethics Officer at Philips. She’s held Board positions at Megeno and the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine.

Articles by Dr Mark Lock

Dr Mark J Lock - BSc (hons), MPH, PhD – is a descendent of the Ngiyampaa people (a tribe of Australia’s First Peoples), English and Scottish Convicts on the First Fleet (the Lucas Clan), Latvian immigrants, and Australian free colonists. His grandmother, Marjorie Woodrow, encouraged him to become educated and make changes for Australia’s First Peoples, as he wrote in an award-winning article for the Medical Journal of Australia’s Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Prize.

Articles by Elizabeth Jameson

Elizabeth founded Board Matters in 2002 along with its associated governance legal practice, Board Matters Legal. Elizabeth has provided corporate legal and governance assistance and advice, with a real-life ‘practising director’ perspective, to a large range of companies, organisations, and industries for well over 20 years. This has included not-for-profit boards as well as listed, private and public sector boards. She also maintains an active portfolio of directorships, presently with RACQ, Qld Theatre Company and the Board of Taxation, and chairs the board of Brisbane Girls’ Grammar.

Articles by Elizabeth Lathlean

At the time of writing Elizabeth Lathlean was a Senior Lawyer in Gilbert + Tobin’s Charities + Social Sector Group. Elizabeth specialises in the provision of legal advice and assistance to charities, not-for-profits and social sector organisations. She provides expert assistance on all areas of charity and not-for-profit regulation and compliance, as well as acting in relation to mergers and acquisitions, restructuring transactions and corporate governance. Elizabeth is a non-executive director of CBM Australia, a registered charity and international development organisation.

Articles by Emma Jacobs

Emma practices broadly across the commercial sector, working primarily in the heath, government and not-for-profit areas. She assists in providing advice on a range of commercial agreements and corporate transactions. Emma also has experience in helping clients to develop strategies and solutions in corporate governance and compliance.

Articles by Erica Lewis

Erica Lewis has served on a range of local and national boards and committees, including as chair and treasurer. She is a past President of the YWCA of Canberra.

Articles by Felicity Iredale

Felicity specialises in advising clients in the health, community, disability, aged care, education and not-for-profit sectors. She has experience in establishing collaboration and partnership arrangements for organisations within the sector, including drafting MOUs, establishing consortiums and incorporated and unincorporated joint ventures. She also regularly advises on constitution reform, governance advice and not-for-profit mergers and amalgamations.

Articles by Fi Mercer

Fi is a governance specialist, innovator and successful entrepreneur, with 25 years’ leadership experience in the health, not-for-profit and business sectors. Fi is the founding director of the award winning, Governance Evaluator, a disruptively innovative online platform for board evaluation and capability building requirements. She is the past chair of Pathways Inc and a director on the St Laurence Community Services and Rural Workforce Agency Boards. Fi has just returned from Haas Business School at Berkley (Silicon Valley, California) where she completed entrepreneurship studies.

Articles by Gavin Nicholson

Gavin is an experienced director, governance researcher and board consultant. He has provided advice on corporate governance and strategy to listed and large public companies, government owned corporations, statutory authorities, not-for-profit organisations and local government. Gavin heads several large research programs aimed at understanding how to help boards make better decisions. He has published extensively in a range of leading journals in his field and currently serves on the editorial board of Corporate Governance: An International Review and co-authored a number of best-selling books with Prof Geoff Kiel including the practitioner-focused title “Directors at Work”.

Articles by Grace McCarthy

Associate Professor Grace McCarthy is Dean of Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, and on the Board and Governance and Nominations Committee of St. Mary Star of the Sea College, Wollongong. Grace has published a book and several articles on coaching and mentoring. She has run coaching workshops for leadership workshops and developed the Master of Business Coaching at the University of Wollongong. Grace has been awarded an Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for using a coaching approach to inspire a love of learning among students and colleagues.