Leon Carter, National Secretary, Financial Sector Union

Leon Carter has been with the Financial Sector Union (FSU) for 15 years, and has been National Secretary since 2007. He has been involved in the Australian trade union movement for 24 years. FSU is the voice of 400,000 Australian finance workers. Leon's aim is for the FSU to achieve membership growth, and better conditions for Australian finance sector workers. FSU is leading a campaign to halt offshoring of Australian jobs, and create awareness of Debt Stress.

Appointed: December 2011

Professor Michael Kidd AM, Faculty of Health Sciences Flinders University

Michael Kidd is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences (including the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Midwifery) at Flinders University. He chairs the Australian Government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections. He is president-elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors and a past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He has long standing clinical and research interests in e-health, sexual health and HIV medicine.

Appointed: July 2010

Re-appointed: October 2012

Dr Christine O'Keefe

Professor Christine O'Keefe is the Research Leader for Business and Services Analytics in CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, and is an Adjunct Professor in Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. Her previous roles include Strategic Operations Director in the CSIRO Preventative Health National Research Flagship and Director of the Population Health Research Network Centre for Data Linkage. Christine's research interests lie in the area of privacy enhancing technologies and statistical disclosure control. She is particularly interested in technologies which allow the use of confidential data without compromising confidentiality or privacy.

Christine holds a PhD in Pure Mathematics from the University of Adelaide and a MBA from the Australian National University. In 2000 she was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal for distinguished research in the Mathematical Sciences and in 1996 she was awarded the Hall Medal of the Institute for Combinatorics and its Applications for outstanding contributions to the field. Christine's contributions to Mathematics in Australia were recognised by inclusion on the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame Signature Quilt.

Appointed: March 2009

Re-appointed: December 2011

Associate Professor Moira Paterson, Faculty of Law, Monash University

Moira Paterson is Director of Graduate Studies in the Monash Law Faculty and a member of the Monash University Human Ethics Committee. She teaches and researches in FOI and privacy and is the author of Freedom of Information and Privacy in Australia: Government and Information Access in the Modern State (LexisNexis/Butterworths, 2005) and FOI editor of the Australian Administrative Law Service. Moira has been a member of the Victorian Firearms Committee since 2007. Her other external appointments have included membership of the Advisory Committees to the ALRC in relation to its privacy and secrecy law reviews and membership of the Consultative Committee to the VLRC in relation to its report on Surveillance in Public Places. She has also completed research consultancies for the Victorian Parliamentary Accounts and Estimates Committee and the VLRC

Appointed: December 2011

Barbara Robertson, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Governance, National Australia Bank (NAB)

Barbara Robertson is the Chief Privacy Officer at NAB. As well as overseeing the personal information management and governance framework for NAB, Barbara and her team provide direction in relation to privacy legislation and coordinate responses to the many diverse statutory notices and subpoenas NAB receive from government agencies, regulators, and litigants.

Before establishing the Privacy & Notices team in 2007, Barbara’s roles in NAB have involved leading large operational teams and managing several key strategic supplier arrangements. Prior to joining NAB in 2002, her business experience including building a National Customer Contact Centre for NZ’s largest trustee company and leading the corporate actions team within a global securities organisation.

Barbara is a practising lawyer and holds an MBA (AGSM 2006). She is also a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FINSIA).

Appointed: July 2010

Re-appointed: October 2012

Richard Glenn

Assistant Secretary, Business and Information Law Branch

Attorney-General’s Department

Richard Glenn is Assistant Secretary, Business and Information Law Branch within the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department (AGD), with responsibility for providing legal policy advice on privacy, freedom of information, copyright, bankruptcy, personal property securities and microeconomic reform.  Richard joined the AGD in 1999, having previously worked as an in house solicitor for the Department of Finance and Administration, and in private practice.  Prior to taking up his current role in 2012, Richard held senior positions in the AGD dealing with issues including territories administration, personal property securities reform, native title and national security law.