Assistant Commissioner Debra Abbott has been a member of Victoria Police for 28 years. Debra’s diverse police career has seen her serve across a number of operational areas including Operations Support, Crime Command and General Policing.
Committed to innovation and practical implementation at the frontline of policing, Debra has held senior roles in many reform projects and programs, including the Victoria Police General Duties Uniform Project. In 2011 Debra was appointed the Victoria Police Program Manager for the Deployment of 940 Protective Service Officers to the Victorian transport system; and the recruitment and deployment of 1700 additional sworn police officers.
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Kathryn is CEO of the Victorian Local Governance Association (VLGA). The VLGA is an independent organisation that supports councils, councillors and the community in good local governance through policy, advocacy, networking and professional development.
Jenny Atta was appointed to the position of Deputy Secretary, Infrastructure and Finance Services Group in December 2015.
Teresa Banman is a highly qualified and experienced leader, with almost two decades working in senior management roles throughout the Tasmanian State Service. This includes responsibility for managing misconduct and associated industrial processes for medium and large scale public institutions. Her hands-on management experience gives her insight and understanding of the integral role of ethics and integrity in the public sector.
at the Victorian Ombudsman’s office for 10 years. She is an Assistant Ombudsman, leading a team conducting systemic and protected disclosure investigations.
A J Brown is Professor of Public Policy and Law, and program leader, public integrity and anti-corruption, in the Centre for Governance & Public Policy at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. He is also a board member of Transparency International Australia, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, member of the International Whistleblowing Research Network, and president-elect of the Australian Political Studies Association.
As PTV’s Director, Governance & Legal, Ed Byrden provides PTV’s Chief Executive Officer, Executive Board and Audit, Safety, Risk & Assurance Committee with advice and guidance on a variety of governance and legal issues.Prior to joining PTV, Ed held senior legal roles at BP and Medibank Private, and was General Manager, WHS & Legal at Epic Energy. Ed has also served as Legal Counsel for Transurban and as a solicitor with Minter Ellison Lawyers.
The Hon Dr Ken Coghill PhD (Monash) was born at Mansfield in 1944. His first degree was in veterinary science (BVSc Melbourne) and he was formerly a public servant, Wodonga Councillor, Member of the Victorian Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary and Speaker.
n Condron was appointed as the Deputy Secretary Finance, Infrastructure & Governance for the Department of Justice and Regulation in November 2016. Prior to this he was the Department’s Chief Finance Officer for a period of 9 years commencing in July 2007, following 4 years as Chief Finance Officer for the Department of Primary Industries. He has a total of 23 years as a finance professional in the VPS dating back to his commencement with the then Department of Health and Community Services in 1994.
Assistant Commissioner Luke Cornelius leads the Victoria Police response to the VEOHRC Review into sex discrimination and sexual harassment, including predatory behaviour, among Victoria Police personnel.
Christina DiPierdomenico has worked for Ombudsman for more than 10 years, in Victoria and overseas. She has held roles in complaints handling, alternative dispute resolution and investigations.
Susan Fraser is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in auditing and advisory services, mainly in the private sector. She has held various senior level roles in external audit, financial reporting for a listed entity, internal audit, business process improvements (leading projects in both the private and public sectors), and in Australian auditing and assurance standard-setting.
Dennis Gentilin is the founding director of Human Systems Advisory, a research based consulting firm that believes the majority of conduct issues within organisations are not caused by ineffective formal systems, but rather by ineffective human systems. It is by strengthening their human systems that organisations not only increase their ethical resilience, but create the conditions that feed future prosperity.
Lynne Haultain is the Executive Director of the Victoria Law Foundation.
Justine Heazlewood is Director of the Public Record Office and Victoria’s Keeper of Public Records. With degrees in both history and computing she was drawn into working with electronic records and helped to develop the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy. She is involved in a number of initiatives to set national and international standards for recordkeeping and works with partners across Victoria and Australia to achieve better coordination in digital information management.
Matthew Hildebrand is the General Manager for Investigations at Telstra, Australia’s largest Telecommunications company with global operations in 22 countries. In addition to leading investigations into internal fraud, serious workplace misconduct, data loss and sensitive whistleblower matters he also reports to Telstra’s Chief Risk Officer on broader conduct risk.
Leslie Holmes is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, and a Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Social Research in Warsaw and the People’s University in Beijing. He has also taught at the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna. He has been a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia since 1995.
Colleen Lewis is an Adjunct Professor with the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University and a Director of the Accountability Round Table. Her research interests include anti-corruption models, public sector accountability, transparency and integrity, with particular emphasis on political donations, lobbying and the trust deficit between parliamentarians and those who elect them to serve in the public interest. Professor Lewis is the author of Complaints Against Police: The Politics of Reform and is a co-editor and contributor to seven books ranging across several topics including police accountability, counter-terrorism and the post democratic state, the Whitlam legacy, the Fitzgerald legacy and the professional development of parliamentarians.
Serena Lillywhite is the Chief Executive Officer at Transparency International Australia. Prior to this role, Serena led the mining advocacy team at Oxfam, and held the position as Private Sector Policy Lead for Oxfam International for four years. In 2016 Serena was based in Cambodia as the Responsible Business Conduct adviser to the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia.
Michael Macaulay is the Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Sunderland (UK) and York St John (UK), and is a former Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa).
Stuart Macintyre is Manager Strategic Intelligence and Research at the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission. Stuart joined IBAC in April 2013 from the Professional Standards Command of Victoria Police where he was the Assistant Director of the Risk Mitigation Division. During his time with Victoria Police, Stuart undertook three secondments: to the United Kingdom Gambling Commission as Head of Risk, as the Manager of Research and Policy at the Victorian Casino and Gaming Authority and as the Manager of the Office of the Chief Commissioner of Police.
Rebecca McKenzie is an accomplished leader with a successful career at executive level across three countries and three sectors. CEO at City of Glen Eira since February 2016, she is responsible for a $150 million business delivering services to the Glen Eira community in Melbourne’s inner south. Rebecca’s prior roles include CEO at Mitchell Shire Council, and Director of Corporate Services for Yarra Ranges Council. Before relocating back to Australia in 2009 following an 8 year stint abroad, Rebecca held Director level roles at Swindon Borough Council in the UK and National University of Ireland in Dublin.
Stephen Mumford has been appointed to assist Victoria’s new Information Commissioner to establish a streamlined information and data oversight body. As a statutory officer Stephen has responsibility for the Commissioner’s obligations in respect to privacy and data security across the Victorian public sector and the state’s law enforcement bodies. Immediately preceding Stephen’s appointment, he was Deputy Victorian Ombudsman where he was involved in numerous investigations into systemic maladministration, allegations of impropriety and breaches of Victoria’s Charter of Human Rights. Stephen also contributed to the Handbook of Global Research and Practice in Corruption (edited by Adam Graycar and Russell G. Smith) collaborating with Glenn Sullivan and Dr Inez Dussuyer to author the chapter Reporting Corrupt Practices in the Public Interest: Innovative Approaches to Whistleblowing.
Claire Noone is a Principal at Nous Group and has more than 20 years’ leadership experience across both federal and state government, most recently as a senior executive at the Department of Justice (Vic), including as Acting Secretary.
In June 2016, Kate Rattigan was appointed Deputy Secretary, People and Executive Services Group (PESG) after acting in the role since October 2015.
Gabrielle Reilly has extensive experience as a practitioner and leader in all areas of human resource management with specialisation in organisational development and culture change. She has senior leadership and executive experience in both public and private sectors including health, local government, education, financial services, executive recruitment and State government in all areas of the justice system. She holds qualifications in business management, psychology and coaching, and is currently the Executive Director of Human Resources for Victoria Police. Gabrielle is passionate about enabling organisational outcomes by creating a workplace environment that supports respect, performance and accountability.
Andrew Rule is a leading Melbourne journalist currently working at The Herald Sun. When he started as a cadet, he was the only cadet reporter in captivity to have ridden the winner of a horse race. He had previously worked for ‘The Times’ and ‘the Spectator’ – the Gippsland Times and the Maffra Spectator, in East Gippsland.
Russell Smith has qualifications in law, psychology and criminology from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from King’s College London. He practised as a lawyer in Melbourne in the 1980s prior to taking up a lectureship in criminology at the University of Melbourne in 1990. He then took up a research position at the Australian Institute of Criminology where he is now Principal Criminologist. He has published extensively on aspects of fraud and corruption control, cybercrime and professional regulation, and is a Fellow and former President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and former President of the Asia-Pacific Association of Technology and Society. He is co-editor with Adam Graycar of the Handbook of Global Research and Practice in Corruption (Edward Elgar 2011).
Wendy Steendam has over 30 years of policing experience across roles including general duties, sexual offence and child abuse investigation, governance, planning and policy. As Assistant Commissioner of Eastern Region, Wendy managed over 2,300 staff in 15 local area commands. While Chief Information Officer, with responsibility for the Information, Systems & Security Command, Wendy led an ambitious reform program to support operational policing. Currently Deputy Commissioner Capability, Wendy oversees work on the capability framework and plan, to ensure the effective delivery of policing services and critical business functions.
Chris Steinfort is President, Victorian Council, and is a Fellow Certified Practitioner Human Resources (FCPHR). The Australian HR Institute is the national organisation representing HR professionals. As a HR consultant, Chris builds leadership capability to achieve strategic and operational business outcomes and manage human capital risks.
Caroline Tomiczek has over 10 years’ research and policy-development experience, including a PhD in Psychology from Macquarie University. Caroline is skilled in the design and project management of complex and challenging social research projects, including social marketing research, program and policy evaluation, stakeholder research, and service evaluations. Caroline is particularly interested in finding ways to effectively convey complex research results to clients and stakeholders.
Evan Westmore has been with the Victorian Ombudsman for nearly 10 years, and is an Assistant Ombudsman, formal investigations.
Sue Wilkinson is the Chief Executive Officer of Darebin City Council. Prior to commencing in this role, Ms Wilkinson was the Chief Executive Officer at Colac Otway Shire and has a strong track record of delivery of high quality, coordinated services and complex public policy outcomes. She has significant senior leadership experience across both state and local government, having previously worked at the City of Monash, the City of Port Phillip and the former Department of Planning and Community Development.