We are very excited that we have been able to engage the services of some of the best speakers to motivate, educate and entertain for our general sessions and optional workshops.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Alastair MacGibbon
Head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, and the Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Cyber Security
Alastair MacGibbon is National Cyber Security Adviser at the Department of Home Affairs and concurrently Head of the Australian Cyber Security Centre, part of the Australian Signals Directorate. He leads the implementation of the Government’s Cyber Security Strategy, transforming Australia’s cyber security landscape to realise the economic and social benefits of a cyber resilient nation, and deliver Australia’s cyber security operational capacity.
Prior to taking up his appointment Mr MacGibbon was Australia's first eSafety Commissioner. Before that he worked for 15 years as an Agent with the Australian Federal Police, including as founding Director of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre. Along with private sector roles such as Senior Director of Trust, Safety and Customer Support at eBay, MacGibbon was a Director of the Centre for Internet Safety at the University of Canberra.
Emeritus Professor Geoff Gallop AC
Director, Graduate School of Government
The University of Sydney
After an academic career in Australia and Britain, Geoff Gallop was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1986 to 2006. He was a minister in the Lawrence Labor Government from 1990 to 1993, leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 2001, and premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006.
After retiring from politics, he became Professor and Director of Sydney University’s Graduate School of Government, a position he held until 2015. Currently, he chairs the Education Committee of the New Democracy Foundation and is a patron of City Health International.
SESSION SPEAKERS
Dr Geoff Airo-Farulla
Director, Ethics and Standard
Ethics and Standards
Queensland Building and Construction Commission
Geoff Airo-Farulla’s substantive position is Assistant Ombudsman in the office of the Queensland Ombudsman. He is currently on secondment to the position of Director of Ethics and Standards at the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, where he is responsible, among other things, for managing workplace misconduct investigations. Prior to this, Dr Airo-Farulla was State Director and Director of the Overseas Students Ombudsman, in the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s office. He has also taught administrative law for many years at Griffith University and the University of Queensland.
Mark Antill
Commander, Australian Border Force
Mark Antill commenced his law enforcement career with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in 1986, Mr Antill built the foundations of his law enforcement experience working across a range of community policing functions including general duties, traffic and criminal investigations. He later specialised in investigations and intelligence, working across transnational crime, people smuggling and counter terrorism operations. Mark Antill later took up a position with the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, working closely with other national security and law enforcement agencies in a number of investigative roles focussed on counter terrorism and broader national security functions. In 2015, he took up a Commander role within the newly established Australian Border Force (ABF). He has led the Investigations Branch, and currently leads the ABF Career Management Branch, which includes the ABF College. He has been heavily involved in leading and shaping investigative capability during his time with the ABF. Mr Antill holds a Bachelor of Social Science in Policing Studies, a Graduate Diploma of Public Administration and a Graduate Certificate of Applied Science.
Bob Atkinson
Former Commissioner for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and former
Queensland Police Commissioner
Bob Atkinson served as the Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service for 12 years. In a 44-year career with the Queensland Police Service, he served throughout Queensland, including as a detective and a police prosecutor. In the 1990s, Mr Atkinson oversaw reforms stemming from the Commission Inquiry into Possible Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (the Fitzgerald Inquiry), 1987–1989 and the Public Sector Management Commission Review and Report Recommendations of the Queensland Police Service, 1993. In 1989, he attended the three-month FBI National Academy Course at Quantico, Virginia, in the United States. In 2002, he also completed the FBI’s National Executive Institute program. Following his retirement in 2012, Mr Atkinson was appointed as one of six Commissioners for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The final report was handed down in December 2017, some five years after the inquiry commenced. Earlier this year, Mr Atkinson accepted the role of Special Advisor to Minister Farmer, Youth Justice Taskforce, Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women. He hopes to maintain an involvement in child safety issues and, in this regard, is also an ambassador for Bravehearts.
Michael Barnes
NSW Ombudsman
NSW Ombudsman Michael Barnes was appointed to his current role in December 2017. Since January 2014, he had been NSW State Coroner and, prior to that, held the post of inaugural Queensland State Coroner for 10 years. In those roles, Mr Barnes presided over numerous high-profile and contentious inquests, such as the inquest into the death of Daniel Morcombe, the deaths arising from the sinking in the Torres Strait of the Malu Sara (a Department of Immigration vessel), the Lockhart River air crash, the deaths connected with the Pink Batts program, the death of Philip Hughes, and the Lindt Café siege. Before becoming a chief coroner, Mr Barnes was head of the School of Justice Studies at Queensland University of Technology, a post he took up after nine years as the Chief Officer of the complaints section at the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission. Mr Barnes began his legal career in 1980, in a small suburban law firm in Brisbane. He was a partner in that firm for five years until he moved to the Aboriginal Legal Service. He became interested in coronial work when appearing for the relatives of people whose deaths were investigated by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, which highlighted the inadequacies of the coronial processes of that time. He has since specialised in criminal and administrative law and undertakes research and teaching in criminal justice, health law, and corruption and organised crime investigation. He is an adjunct professor of the Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology and of the Australian Institute of Suicide Research and Prevention at Griffith University.
Grevis Beard
Director, Worklogic Pty Ltd
Grevis Beard’s career encompasses investigation, mediation, legal and advocacy roles. He is a Co-founder and Director of Worklogic, a market leader in resolving workplace complaints and building positive workplace cultures. Worklogic has conducted approximately 1,500 workplace investigations into alleged misconduct. Mr Beard frequently presents on how to improve workplace communication, behaviour and culture. He is a published co-author of the essential manual Workplace Investigations and Fix Your Team, the ground-breaking resource for human resources staff, managers and team members.
Professor AJ Brown
Professor of Public Policy & Law, Program Leader | Public Integrity & Anti-Corruption
Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University, Queensland
AJ Brown is Professor of Public Policy and Law, and program leader, integrity and anti-corruption at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University. Elected to the global board of Transparency International (TI) in 2017, he has been a director of TI Australia since 2010, and was formerly a senior investigation officer with the Commonwealth Ombudsman, Associate to Justice Tony Fitzgerald AC, President of the Queensland Court of Appeal, and a state ministerial policy advisor. Widely consulted by governments on integrity systems reform, anti-corruption, accountability and whistleblowing legislation, Professor Brown is project leader on two of the world's largest whistleblowing research projects: Whistling While They Work and the current Whistling While They Work 2 (funded by the Australian Research Council and partner organisations from throughout Australia and New Zealand, including the NSW Ombudsman). In October 2017, Professor Brown was appointed to the Commonwealth Government’s expert advisory panel on whistleblower protections. He is also currently president of the Australian Political Studies Association, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
Fay Calderone
Partner, Hall and Wilcox
Fay Calderone is a Partner, Employment & Workplace Relations at Hall & Wilcox. She has a dynamic practice advising employers for over 16 years on workplace compliance, change management, bullying, discrimination, sexual harassment and dispute resolution.
In 2017 Ms Calderone was a finalist in the NSW Women Lawyers Achievement Awards – Private Practice Lawyer of the Year; the Lawyers Weekly Awards – Partner of the Year in Workplace Relations and recognised for Labour & Employment Law – Best Lawyers in Australia 2019 edition.
Jean-Michel Carriere
Chief Procurement Officer
Department of Justice NSW
Jean-Michel Carriere was appointed the Chief Procurement Officer in the NSW Department of Justice in 2015 and, in 2018, was appointed the Chair of the NSW Government Procurement Leadership Group. Under Mr Carriere’s leadership, the department has achieved one of the highest levels of procurement accreditation. Building on nearly 10 years of NSW government experience, Mr Carriere is committed to streaming and simplifying the procurement processes across the NSW government to achieve ethical and sustainable procurement practices.
Kathleen Clough
Senior Forensic Accountant
NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption
Kathleen Clough has over 10 years’ experience working in both accounting and legal capacities, with the last five years devoted to forensic accounting within law enforcement agencies, including the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, and the Fraud and Cybercrime Squad of the NSW Police Force. She has worked as an academic, recently coordinating forensic accounting units for Charles Sturt University. Ms Clough’s qualifications include a Bachelor in Commerce-Accounting, Bachelor of Laws with Honours, Master of Financial Crime and Fraud with distinction. She is also a member of CPA Australia and is currently completing a PhD exploring the relationship between the abolition of cash and tax evasion.
Michael Cole
Whistle Blowers Australia
Professor Penny Cooper
PhD, Professor of Law (University of London) and Barrister (39 Essex Chambers, London)
Penny Cooper has worked closely with the NSW Department of Justice and the NSW Police Force on the successful introduction and implementation of Australia’s ground-breaking witness intermediary scheme and with the NSW Ombudsman on guidance for interviewing people with cognitive impairment. Professor Cooper is probably best known for inventing the English witness intermediary model (from 2003 to 2016, she designed and delivered the accredited training for the first intermediaries in England, Northern Ireland and NSW). She also created ground rules for hearings for vulnerable witnesses and is responsible for The Advocate’s Gateway (a free online resource for vulnerable witnesses and defendants), which she has led since inception. All three approaches have been judicially endorsed and are now widely used around the world. Professor Cooper, whose aim is to enable the best evidence from witnesses, undertakes Advocate’s Gateway (a free online resource for vulnerable witnesses and defendants), which she has led since inception. All three approaches have been judicially endorsed and are now widely used around the world. Professor Cooper, whose aim is to enable the best evidence from witnesses, undertakes international research, training and advisory work. Recent cases include a review of a murder trial where the defendant was diagnosed with autism after conviction, and planning the questioning of a claimant who had sustained serious head injuries and cognitive impairment.
Roy Cottam
Manager Risk and Governance
City of Sydney Council
After leaving school, Roy Cottam served in the British Army as a paratrooper. Following a five-year military spell, he joined the UK Police Service. During that time, he led a number of international organised crime and counter-terrorism inquiries, while serving at New Scotland Yard in London. He ended his career as a Deputy Area Commander and took a career break to migrate to Australia. Mr Cottam has undertaken senior roles within the anti-corruption space in NSW and is currently in the role of Acting Manager Risk and Governance at the City of Sydney. He has a Masters in Leadership and Management and is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia.
Beulah Davies
Crime and Corruption Commission, Queensland
Beulah Davies has more than a decade’s experience working in intelligence within a law enforcement environment. She has been involved in numerous drug trafficking, networked paedophilia and corruption investigations. She is passionate about using the science of behavioural profiling to maximise team performance and investigative outcomes. Ms Davies is an accredited consultant in the Extended DISC Behavioural Profiling Tool, a professionally trained human behaviour and performance coach and a certified practitioner of Meta Dynamic™. She is also a practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming. Ms Davies first began formalising her knowledge of psychology and human behaviour in 2005 when she completed a degree in criminology majoring in human behaviour.
Mary Davitt
Director, Hanlon's Employment Relations Consultants
Mary is founder and director of Hanlon’s Employment Relations Consultants. She works with executive teams to develop employment and industrial relations strategies. Ms Davitt specialises in providing advice on investigations, disputes, bargaining, change management, and all other employee-relations issues. Before establishing Hanlon’s Employment Relations Consultants, Ms Davitt held the positions of director of industrial relations and human resources across a range of government, private and not-for-profit organisations throughout the aviation, social services, education and hospitality industries. Ms Davitt is an admitted solicitor and holds post-graduate degrees in business and human resources.
Karl Day
Detective Acting Senior Sergeant, Crime Division, Northern Territory Police
Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Karl Day has 20 years’ service with the Northern Territory Police, 10 of these as a Detective Sergeant. He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2014 to study Investigative Interviewing in England, is a Tier 4 Investigative Interviewing Advisor and has a Graduate Diploma of Investigation Management.
Andrea Devlin
Forensic Document and Handwriting Examiner
Forensic Document Services Pty Ltd
Andrea Devlin is a Forensic Document and Handwriting Examiner with the private laboratory Forensic Document Services Pty Ltd. She holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Forensic Investigation) and a Diploma of Forensic Document Examination, both from the Canberra Institute of Technology and has been in the Document Examination field for over 10 years. Ms Devlin is a member of numerous professional societies in the forensic science and investigation fields.
J Paul Dubé
Ontario Ombudsman, Canada
Paul Dubé was sworn in as Ontario's seventh ombudsman on 1 April 2016. Since then, he has released reports on major systemic investigations with more than 140 recommendations – all of which have been accepted by government. Among them, his June 2016 report, A Matter of Life and Death, called for police to be better trained in de-escalating conflict situations. His April 2017 systemic investigation report, Out of Oversight, Out of Mind, prompted the province to overhaul its flawed system for the placement and tracking of inmates in segregation. Mr Dubé received his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh, and his Juris Doctor Degree in Law at the University of Windsor. Mr Dubé began his legal career in private practice in New Brunswick, specialising in criminal litigation and demonstrating an unwavering commitment to the protection of rights conferred by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the promotion ofprocedural fairness. He was an instructor at the New Brunswick Bar Admission Course on Criminal Procedure for seven years. As a result of work with Legal Aid New Brunswick, Mr Dubé was a co-recipient of the Canadian Bar Association Pro Bono Award in 2003. In 2008, Mr Dubé was appointed federal Taxpayers’ Ombudsman and tasked with the creation of a new office to uphold the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. In this role, he produced seven systemic reports with recommendations aimed at improving the Canada Revenue Agency's treatment of, and service to, taxpayers. All of his recommendations were accepted. Mr Dubé has been actively involved in the ombudsman community, serving two terms as a member of the board of directors of the Forum of Canadian Ombudsman, where he contributed to discussions and decisions on a variety of issues, such as governance and continuing education. In November 2016, Mr Dubé was named the International Ombudsman Institute’s regional president for North America.
Michael Easton
Manager Operations
Integrity Commission Tasmania
Michael Easton, Manager Operations, Integrity Commission, Tasmania, has extensive experience within the public sector, having been a senior manager in the state service and local government, and at the commonwealth level within the Federal Circuit Court. Mr Easton facilitates the commission’s complaints management and investigative processes, its police and parliamentary oversight functions, and the gathering and analysis of intelligence. He brings a healthy dose of common sense and pragmatism to the commission’s work, and an intent to positively influence public sector agencies on integrity issues.
Jacob Formann
Crime and Corruption Commission, Queensland
Sarah Frost
Investigator (Research and Analysis)
Integrity Commission Tasmania
Sarah Frost, Investigator (Research and Analysis), Integrity Commission, Tasmania, conducted the investigation on which this presentation is based. She is a lawyer and has been with the commission for five years. Her first role at the commission was reviewing the Tasmania Police conduct and complaint management policy; as a result, a new system based on her work has recently been introduced. Ms Frost manages the commission’s police oversight program, its own-motion investigations into policies, practices and procedures, and legal issues that arise during investigations.
Ian Galvin
Director, Industrial Relations Policy and A/Director Compliance NSW Treasury
I am currently Director Policy and A/Director Compliance, having been Director of Compliance in Industrial Relations previously from 2007 – 2013, a time of significant regulatory change for the private sector moving to a national industrial system. I have been involved in industrial relations in many different roles for over 20 years, from assisting small businesses understand their obligations when employing staff to providing policy advice.
Cameron Gardner
Detective Sergeant (Crime), Crime and Corruption Commission, Queensland
Cameron Gardner has been in law enforcement for 25 years, with investigations experience across a variety of crime types while serving with the Queensland Police Service and the Crime and Corruption Commission. He has undertaken, and also delivered, training with world-leading practitioners and academics in relation to investigative interviewing. He is a qualified specialist interviewer, interview advisor and investigations trainer. In 2017, he completed a Masters of Investigations at Charles Sturt University.
Catherine Geenty
Professional Conduct Coordinator
Wollongong City Council
Catherine Geenty, Internal Ombudsman, Wollongong City Council, assists council to improve its transparency, accountability and governance. She is responsible for coordinating and undertaking independent investigations into complaints against council staff and services, and addressing systemic issues identified during the complaints management process. Ms Geenty also provides internal training, and guidance and advice on how to improve probity and accountability in decision-making to reduce the likelihood of corrupt conduct and maladministration from occurring.
Deborah Glass OBE
Victorian Ombudsman
Deborah Glass OBE was appointed Victorian Ombudsman in March 2014 for a term of 10 years. Deborah was raised in Melbourne where she studied law at Monash University. She practiced law briefly before joining a US investment bank in Switzerland. She has held senior positions at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, the UK’s Investment Management Regulatory Organisation, Police Complaints Authority, and the Independent Police Complaints Commission of England and Wales (IPCC). Most recently she was Deputy Chair of the IPCC and the Commissioner responsible for London, and for many high profile criminal and misconduct investigations into police conduct.
Valerie Griswold
Executive Director of Fair Trading Operations
NSW Fair Trading
Valerie Griswold has vast experience in consumer protection, and brings with her an extensive work history in government regulation both within Australia and the United States. In 1989, she joined the Orange County California District Attorney’s Office. During her eight years there, she prosecuted hundreds of cases, including almost 60 jury trials. Ms Griswold was promoted to Senior Deputy District Attorney and served as the head of the Environmental Crimes Unit, chairing the multi-jurisdictional Hazardous Materials Environmental Investigations team, and lecturing nationally on the subject. After moving to Sydney in 1999, she became the Solicitor Advocate for Fair Trading in 2004, and was later appointed as Director of Fair Trading Legal Services. Ms Griswold became Executive Director Fair Trading Operations in 2015. She leads a number of teams and over 150 staff in delivering high-quality and responsive compliance and enforcement results for the people of NSW.
Colleen Gwynne
Children's Commissioner Northern Territory
Colleen Gwynne spent over 25 years with the NT Police reaching the rank of Commander before taking on a Senior Executive role with the NT Government and then being appointed the NT Children’s Commissioner in June 2015. She has led a range of operational and specialist areas including major, drug and organised crime, domestic violence, prosecutions, child abuse, public housing safety and youth services. Colleen led five local policing commands across the Territory and was the lead Investigator on the Peter Falconio murder case. Ms Gwynn has formal qualifications in leadership, criminal justice, investigations and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the Management of Serious Crime Course.
The Hon Peter Hall QC
Chief Commissioner, NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption
NSW ICAC Chief Commissioner the Hon Peter Hall QC was appointed to the role on 7 August 2017 for a five-year term. Mr Hall has previously acted as counsel assisting the Building Industry Royal Commission and the inquiry into the Waterfall Train Disaster. He is a previous ICAC Assistant Commissioner, and has acted as counsel assisting the ICAC. Mr Hall was admitted to practice as a solicitor in 1970, and was admitted to the Bar Association of NSW in June 1974. He was appointed Queens Counsel in 1992. Mr Hall was appointed to the Supreme Court of NSW in 2005 as a Judge in the Common Law Division, and has also sat in the Equity Division, the Court of Criminal Appeal and the Criminal Trial Division. He retired from the Supreme Court in December 2016. Areas of professional interest include the principles of unconscionability, fair dealing and duress in the formation of contractual relationships, integrity principles in government and public administration, and commissions of inquiry – powers and procedures. Publications include Unconscionable Contracts and Economic Duress and Investigating Corruption and Misconduct in Public Office: Commissions of Inquiry Powers and Procedures (second edition currently in progress).
Peter Harvey
Principal Consultant, WEIR
Peter Harvey has extensive experience and skills in managing complex investigations, assessing and resolving workplace disputes, undertaking organisational reviews, training, and overseeing the development, implementation and review of multi-faceted projects. Mr Harvey’s experience is built on his years as a manager in both operational and human resource domains and includes work undertaken within the private sector, state and local government agencies, and not-for-profit organisations.
Graeme Head
Commissioner, National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
Quality and Safeguards Commission
Graeme Head is the Commissioner of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission. The Commission was established on 1 July 2018. Mr Head has a wealth of experience in policy, public administration and regulation, including senior roles in both environmental and consumer protection regulation. He has worked across a number of central agencies, including as Director General of the NSW Department of Commerce and Deputy Director General of the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet. Since 2011, Mr Head has been the NSW Public Service Commissioner. At the federal level, Mr Head was Deputy Secretary at the Department of Health and Ageing, where he led the National Health Reform Transition Office with responsibility for implementing the National Reform Agreement between the Commonwealth and state and territory governments. His other senior roles include CEO of the Sydney Catchment Authority and Assistant Director General of the NSW Environment Protection Authority.
Paul Hunter
Principal Research Scientist
Nuix
Paul Hunter is a Principal Research Scientist at Nuix, based in Melbourne Australia but working at a global level. Paul is primarily responsible for the algorithms and mathematics behind Ringtail's predictive coding solution, and he has routinely provided advice regarding predictive coding and statistical sampling.
In particular, Paul has played a key role in the application of predictive coding to numerous matters over the past five years, and was heavily involved – either as a practitioner or an independent expert – in the earliest reported applications of predictive coding in the Australian courts.
Dr. Hunter has nearly 20 years of software development experience, and has built a career on the application of mathematics to emerging business problems. Prior to joining Ringtail nine years ago, he developed software across a range of industries including strategic workforce planning, insurance price design, and logistics. During his time with Ringtail, Paul has made extensive contributions to the platform’s analytics offerings, including document clustering, similarity searches, and predictive coding.
Paul holds a 1st class Honors degree and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Monash University.
Adam Ingle
Department of Home Affairs
Adam Ingle began working in national security policy at the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department where he administered the legal and policy frameworks that govern electronic surveillance. In 2018 he moved to the newly established Department of Home Affairs to develop legislation addressing the law enforcement and security challenges associated with encryption. He has a Juris Doctor from the University of Sydney and is currently finalising research on adaptive regulatory frameworks for emerging technology at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
Karen James
Speech pathologist
The University of Sydney
Karen James is a certified practicing speech pathologist who specialises in working with children/adolescences at risk, in particular those with ADHD, oppositional defiant disorders, mental health difficulties and trauma. In 2016, Ms James completed a Masters in Applied Science. She investigated the language and social characteristics of adolescent students who attend behavioural schools. These results go a long way towards helping society understand how to effectively communicate with this population. Ms James is also an accredited witness intermediary and part of the NSW witness intermediary pilot program.
Steve Kinmond
NSW Community & Disability Services Commissioner and Deputy Ombudsman
NSW Community and Disability Services Commissioner and Deputy Ombudsman Steve Kinmond has legislative responsibility for:
• reviewing and promoting improvements in community and disability services
• reviewing the deaths of people with disability and children
• handling complaints about government and non-government community and disability services
• ensuring relevant agencies appropriately respond to reportable incidents involving people with disability in supported accommodation and allegations of child abuse made against “employees”.
He has performed these roles for 14 years, and was previously the Assistant Ombudsman (Police) for eight years.
He has also had extensive involvement in reviewing service delivery and justice issues affecting Aboriginal communities. Mr Kinmond has close to 30 years of investigative experience. He has also worked as a solicitor and run his own consultancy practice.
Rae Lamb
Aged Care Complaints Commissioner
Rae Lamb has extensive experience in complaints-handling and resolution in the health and aged care regulatory environment. She assumed responsibility for complaints about all Australian Government-funded aged care on 1 January 2016 when she became the Aged Care Complaints Commissioner. Prior to this role, she was the Australian Aged Care Commissioner from January 2011. Ms Lamb was also previously New Zealand’s Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner, responsible for the resolution of complaints about health, disability and aged care providers and services. In 2001–02, she was a Harkness Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. Her research findings – into how United States hospitals tell patients about errors – have been published and are still widely quoted today. Ms Lamb was also an award-winning journalist for 27 years. She has worked in print, public television and radio and was the specialist health correspondent for Radio New Zealand.
David Lavell
Associate Director, Integrity Unit
University of QLD
Dr Sandra Lawrence
Griffith University
Dr Benoit Leclerc
Associate Professor, Griffith University
Dr Benoit Leclerc is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. His research interests include the application and development of crime script analysis for purposes of situational prevention as well as sexual offending. Mr Leclerc is the co-founding editor (along with Clifford Shearing and Ross Homel) of Criminology at the Edge, an annual edited volume series in criminology.
Danny Lester
Deputy Ombudsman, Aboriginal Programs
Danny started his career working in frontline positions within Commonwealth and NSW government departments. He moved into the non-government sector, working with both the Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES) and the Australian Employment Covenant. His most recent position before being appointed as Deputy Ombudsman was as Chief Executive Officer of the AES, a position he held for over 8 years. Danny’s focus has been on improving the educational outcomes, employment opportunities and economic sustainability available for Aboriginal people. His experience and understanding of the issues facing communities was reflected in his inclusion on the Aboriginal Ministerial Taskforce in 2011. The recommendations of the taskforce were the basis for the NSW Government’s plan for Aboriginal Affairs, Opportunity, Choice, Healing, Responsibility, Empowerment (OCHRE). Danny has served on the board of the Sydney Local Health District, has been a member of the Sydney TAFE NSW Advisory Council, and was a member of the advisory council for the Centre for Social Impact. Danny was voted by an independent panel as a True Leader with vision for the BOSS list of 2012. (BOSS Magazine).
Gregory Love
Criminal Investigations Manager, Fraud Prevention and Internal Investigations
Australian Taxation Office
Australia Defence Force Investigative Service (ADFIS) in 2012. At ADFIS, Mr Love worked on a range of criminal offences, which were investigated under Commonwealth legislation and the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982.
Michael Macaulay
Associate Dean (Professional Programmes)
Victoria Business School, Victoria Unviversity of Wellington, New Zealand
Michael Macaulay is Associate Dean of Professional Programmes at the Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington. He was previously Professor of Public Management at Teesside University, and is the former Director for the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington. Dr Macaulay is a former (2013–2016) co-executive editor of the International Journal of Public Administration and sits on the editorial boards of several other journals. Since 2012, he has acted as co-chair of the European Group of Public Administration permanent study group on integrity and quality of governance. Away from academia, Dr Macaulay spent seven years as a Judge in the UK (Teesside Bench) and has worked with numerous government agencies and non-government organisations in New Zealand and internationally, including the New Zealand Police, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Council of Europe and Transparency International.
Alister McCulloch
Acting Team Leader Strategic Intelligence
Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission, Victoria
Alister McCulloch is Acting Team Leader of Strategic Intelligence at the Independent broad-based Anti-Corruption Commission (IBAC), Victoria, where his projects have focused on the corrections sector, police investigations and organised crime cultivation of public servants.
Patricia McDonald SC
Commissioner
NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption
NSW ICAC Commissioner Patricia McDonald SC was appointed to the role on 7 August 2017 for a five-year term. Ms McDonald is an honours graduate in economics and law from the University of Sydney and has a Bachelor of Civil Law (Honours) from Oxford University.
She practises at the NSW Bar and was appointed senior counsel in 2010. Ms McDonald has specialised in large and complex litigation and has specialist expertise in litigation involving corporate fraud, tax avoidance, breach of director’s duties, drug importation and terrorism.
She also practises in employment and industrial law and in regulatory and civil penalty matters. Ms McDonald has appeared as counsel assisting and for interested parties in inquests and Royal Commissions. Ms McDonald has an interest in sports law, having appeared before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and is a member of the AFL NSW/ACT Appeals Tribunal.
Conor McGarrity
Director
Risk Insights Pty Ltd
Conor McGarrity has worked in public sector governance and risk management (involvement in integrity matters, fraud and corruption control, legislative reviews and efficiency and effectiveness audits) for almost 20 years. He has worked in anti-corruption in the public and private sectors across state and Commonwealth agencies, and has led large teams on high-profile, wide-ranging and sensitive public interest inquiries. Mr McGarrity’s current work includes helping regulatory and integrity agencies leverage data to better target their limited resources and maximise their impact.
Professor John McMillan AO
Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University
Former NSW Ombudsman, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Integrity Commissioner, Australian Information Commissioner, and member of the Australian Copyright Tribuna
John McMillan AO is an emeritus professor at the Australian National University, where he taught administrative and constitutional law from 1983 to 2003. He is a co-author of Control of Government Action: Text, Cases and Commentary. Professor McMillan has held the statutory positions of Commonwealth Ombudsman (2003–2010), acting Integrity Commissioner for the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (2007), Australian Information Commissioner (2010–2015), acting NSW Ombudsman (2015–2017) and member of the Australian Copyright Tribunal (2015–2018). Professor McMillan is a national fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, and an honorary life member of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law.
Kenneth Moroney AO APM MA
Former NSW Police Commissioner
Kenneth Moroney AO APM served as a member of the NSW Police Force between 1965 and 2007. During those 42 years of distinguished service, Mr Moroney occupied a number of executive positions, most notably as Police Commissioner from 2002 to 2007. Since retiring, Mr Moroney has been appointed by federal, state and local governments to investigate or review a wide range of multidisciplinary issues impacting on organisational and individual performance, legislation and policy, training and education and to provide appropriate recommendations to government. He has also been appointed to a number of boards and committees, including the NSW Parole Board, Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security and the United Nations and World Bank Project. Mr Moroney has been formally commended both by the NSW Government and respective police commissioners for meritorious service, including as Officer in the Order of Australia (2006), receiving the Australian Police Medal for Distinguished Service (1993) and several NSW and national policing service medals, and as NSW finalist for Senior Australian of the Year in 2017.
Wilfred Mortimer
Intelligence Analyst, Organised Crime
NSW Crime Commission
Intelligence Analyst, Organised Crime. Has been at the NSW Crime Commission for just over 5 years working on organised crime investigations, previously in the Commission’s intelligence development team.
Dr Jamie Orchard
National Director, Legal Services
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
Jamie Orchard, National Director of Legal Services at the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, is an internationally-experienced regulatory lawyer. He has worked in senior executive enforcement roles with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Dubai Financial Services Authority and the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority before becoming the Executive General Manager of resolution at the Financial Ombudsman Service, a large external dispute-resolution body.
Katharine Overden MBA, BSW (Hons)
Director Feedback and Complaints
NSW Department of Education
Katharine Ovenden is the Director Feedback and Complaints for the NSW Department of Education. Katharine is leading the department’s work in improving complaints handling and the introduction of governance processes to capture and report on complaints data. Prior to this, Katharine worked with the NSW Ombudsman’s Office for over 15 years, in a variety of management positions that focused on improving the complaint handling and investigative practice of government and non-government agencies. Katharine started her career working in frontline positions in child protection and juvenile justice in South Australia, and also has experience working with NSW Health in a training and education role.
Michael Riashi
Senior Investigator
NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption
Michael Riashi leads investigations into allegations of serious and/or systemic corrupt conduct occurring within NSW public sector agencies and local councils. These investigations involve a broad range of criminal and disciplinary matters.
Michelle Robinson
Manager Procurement Contracts and Supplier Relationships
NSW Department of Justice
Michelle Robinson was appointed as a Manager of Procurement at the NSW Department of NSW Justice in 2015, in charge of policy and governance, in response to a recent ICAC investigation recommendation. Ms Robinson is an expert in establishing ethical and sustainable procurement governance frameworks and has been instrumental in transforming NSW Government Procurement Capabilities across the sector. Most recently, Ms Robinson was a keynote speaker at the 2018 Annual Women in Procurement and Supply Chain Conference, speaking on Ethical Procurement.
Kevin Rowley
Team Leader, Investigations and Tactical Support Branch
Environment Protection Authority, South Australia
Kevin Rowley has worked at the South Australia Environment Protection Authority since migrating to Australia in September 2013. He was a police officer in the United Kingdom for 30 years, spending over 17 years in National and Regional crime squads working on national and international investigations. Mr Rowley achieved the rank of Temp Detective Inspector, where he led investigations into the offences of drug trafficking, kidnap and extortion, people trafficking, and grooming. He is an accredited, advanced interviewer and he has delivered training in interviewing and investigation techniques across Australia.
Mr Rowley was the winner of the Australasian Environmental Regulators Achievement award in 2015 for his work in South Australia and he is Chair of the SA Government Investigations Managers Forum which he established to share best practice. He is a member of the International Investigative Interviewing Research group and works closely with academia for the improvement of interviewing, for example Professor Eric Sheppard.
Nick Rowley
Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney
Nick Rowley works as a strategic policy consultant to a mix of business and NGO clients in Australia and overseas. Over the past fifteen years, he has worked at the centre of government on sustainability, climate change and broader policy and political strategy in Australia and the UK.
Mr Rowley was the Strategic Director of the Copenhagen Climate Council, advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair on domestic and international climate policy and advisor to Bob Carr, Premier of NSW working primarily on policy on the environment, urban development and medical research.
Nick Rowley leads a project on the future democratisation of decision-making on the future of Antarctica.
Martin Sisk
Director of Cyber & Forensics, PWC
Martin Sisk has over 15 years experience in digital forensics and eDiscovery, helping clients and their lawyers to identify, search, and disclose electronic data for the purposes of investigation, litigation, arbitration, and regulatory compliance. He acts as the independent computer expert for matters in the Supreme Court in NSW and in Victoria, and spent two years on secondment to a public sector local authority in London, where he was the lead investigator.
David Sordello
Team Leader Investigations
Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission, Victoria
David Sordello is an Investigation Team Leader with the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC), Victoria. Prior to this appointment, he was a detective sergeant at Victoria Police where, for 15 years, he largely worked in complex crime and corruption investigations, intelligence and covert support.
Wayne Steinhardt
Crime and Misconduct Commission, Queensland
Donna Thomson
Specialist Leader at Deloitte
Donna Thomson has over 20 years’ experience within chartered accounting in Australia and the US, industry and federal law enforcement as a financial investigator at the Australian Crime Commission. She specialises in conducting fraud and misconduct investigations utilising forensic technology, for remedial action, civil and/or criminal proceedings. Donna Thomson also assists clients to establish and/or maintain their fraud control frameworks in accordance with leading practice.
Sean Tynan
Head of Zimmerman Services, Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle
Questions of human dignity, mutual responsibility and promoting the intrinsic value of the individual have been principle drivers for Sean Tynan’s professional life. Trained in psychology, Mr Tynan has undertaken post-graduate studies in medical services management and social work. For over 17 years, Mr Tynan had the privilege of working with people with disability, children-at-risk and in care, their families and carers. While working at the NSW Department of Community Services, he undertook multiple management and project roles, including the implementation of reforms arising from Justice James Wood’s Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW. After leaving government, Mr Tynan worked for Life Without Barriers for five years. In October 2009, he was appointed to lead Zimmerman Services, the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle’s child protection unit. He has presented in a number of public and professional fora, conferences and undertaken consultative roles, most recently as a member of the child safety panel in case study #50 of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Mr Tynan feels that his current role of leading Zimmerman Services is the most challenging, complex and worthwhile that he has undertaken in his career. He is looking forward to being a party to implementing the regulatory reforms that are flowing from the work of the Royal Commission.
Hannah Uther
Intelligence Manager, Organised Crime
NSW Crime Commission
Intelligence Manager, Organised Crime at the NSW Crime Commission for the past 10 years working in multi-agency task forces on all areas of major organised crime including drug importations and supply, money laundering and the occasional homicide. Prior to that spent many years working on counter terrorism investigations and South East Asian organised crime
Dr Wim Vandekerckhove
Reader in Business Ethics at the University of Greenwich
Deputy-Director of the Work & Employment Relations Unit (WERU), and editor-in-chief of the journal Philosophy of Management
Wim Vandekerckhove is Reader in Business Ethics at the University of Greenwich. He is Deputy-Director of the Work & Employment Relations Unit, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Philosophy of Management. His 12 authored and co-authored books, and research on internal speak-up arrangements and comparative studies of institutional whistleblowing, include Whistleblowing and Organizational Social Responsibility and The Whistleblowing Guide: Speak-Up Arrangements, Challenges, and Best Practices. He has provided expertise on whistleblowing to the Council of Europe, European Commission DG Justice, Transparency International, Public Concern at Work (UK), Public Services International, Whistleblower Advice Centre (Netherlands), UK Department of Health, UK Financial Conduct Authority and the British Standards Institute. Dr Vandekerckhove leads the working group within the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) developing the world's first international standard for whistleblowing arrangements in organisations.
Chris Wheeler
Deputy Ombudsman
NSW Ombudsman
Deputy NSW Ombudsman Chris Wheeler has over 30 years of experience in complaint-handling and investigations, as well as extensive experience in management and public administration. Among other things, Mr Wheeler is responsible for the work of the Public Administration Division of the Ombudsman and direct oversight of the responsibilities conferred on the Ombudsman under the Public Interest Disclosures Act 1994. He also has responsibility to lead and coordinate the preparation of publications issued by the Ombudsman to guide and improve the performance by public officials of their duties. Mr Wheeler is a town planner and lawyer who has previously worked in a variety of positions in state and local government in NSW and Victoria. He also worked for some years as a solicitor in the private sector.
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Yeomans APM
Child Abuse & Sex Crimes Squad, State Crime Command, NSW Police Force
Peter Yeomans has served in the NSW Police Force for 38 years and is currently attached to the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad. He manages major criminal investigations into the most serious cases of child abuse and sexual assault. Last year, the squad arrested and charged 770 offenders, with an impressive 80% conviction rate. Detective Chief Inspector Yeomans was nominated by the NSW Police Force to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Among various awards and commendations, this year he and his team were awarded the NSW Police Detectives Board award for “excellence in criminal investigation." He has received the Australian Police Medal in the Queens Honours for leading many successful high-profile and sensitive investigations involving child sexual offences. Detective Chief Inspector Yeomans began his policing career as a general duties officer in 1980, working in plain-clothes from 1986, and then as a designated detective in 1990. As a detective, he worked in city and country areas, with posts at Newcastle, the Northern Beaches and Chatswood. In 1994, he was appointed as one of four detective sergeants (team leaders) of the newly formed Child Protection Enforcement Agency, where he served for 10 years. In 2004, he became a detective inspector and served as Crime Manager at North Shore Local Area Command.