University Council

Ms Elisa Fear is an experienced non-executive director with high level financial skills and expertise. She is currently a non-executive director of the Good Samaritan Industries and Financial Toolbox Inc; and a member of the Board of Western Power.

Ms Fear is the Chair of the Women At Risk committee, a group seeking to provide financial and other information for women facing domestic violence whose activities include the development of Your Toolkit, a comprehensive web based resource for women facing domestic violence and financial abuse.

Ms Fear has a Bachelor of Commerce, Masters of Business Administration and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Mr Damian Gordon is an Executive Director of the Hawaiian Group. He is a Director of Amana Living and former Director of Youth Focus.

Mr Gordon is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia & New Zealand with high level financial skills and expertise. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Curtin University and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment. Mr Gordon is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has completed the LEAP Program at INSEAD.

Mr Michael Lundberg is a disputes partner in the Perth office of the global law firm, Jones Day. He has worked as a litigator since 1994. He commenced his legal career at the Crown Solicitor’s Office, and has been in private practice since 2000, first as a litigation partner at King & Wood Mallesons (formerly Mallesons Stephen Jaques), and also at the US firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Michael had roles as Partner in Charge of the Perth office of Mallesons, and head of the Perth Dispute Resolution Group of that firm.

Mr Lundberg has been recognised as a leading Australian litigator in the areas of Commercial Litigation, International Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mining Law and Commercial Law.

Mr Lundberg has a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Law (honours) from the University of Western Australia.

Ms Catherine Clark is the University Librarian and Director, John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library. In this role, she leads the University’s library and learning skills services across all of Curtin’s learning, teaching and research community. She has responsibility for library spaces at the Western Australian campuses and for providing advice about library services to Curtin’s campuses in Dubai, Malaysia, Mauritius and Singapore.

Additional leadership roles include as an active member of the Council of Australian University Librarians through membership of the CAUL Board and as the Program Director for the Fair, Affordable and Open Access to Knowledge Program. Other professional activities include as a Member of the Library Board of Western Australia and Chair of the Board’s Policy and Legislation Committee. Previous roles have included Chair of the Libraries of the ATN Universities Executive Group, and Foundation Faculty Member of the Australian Evidence Based Practice Librarians’ Institute.

In 2017, Ms Clark was awarded the Association for Tertiary Education Management’s LH Martin Institute Award for Excellence in Leadership. Ms Clark has Bachelor of Arts from Murdoch University, Master of Information Management from Curtin University and Graduate Certificate in Public Health from the University of Western Australia and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Mr Terry Agnew is a highly experienced CEO and non-executive director. He has worked across a range of industries including insurance, financial services, travel and tourism, education, disability and care and membership organisations.

Mr Agnew was the Group CEO of RAC WA for 20 years.

Mr Agnew is the current Chair of the Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals and Edge Employment Solutions (a disability employment service). He is also a Director of RAA Insurance, HCF, Infrastructure WA and MDA National Insurance, and was a Founding Member of CEOs for Gender Equity. He also Chairs the Expert Advisory Panel of the AAA Road Safety Research Program and is on the Advisory Board of Future Green Solutions.

Mr Agnew is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) and Member of the Australian Institute of Engineers.

Mr Agnew was educated in Adelaide, Perth and Boston and his qualifications include MBA, M.Sc., B.E. (Hons) and the Harvard AMP. He is also an Honorary Doctor of Curtin University.

Dr Andrew Crane has over thirty years experience in agriculture, food processing and international trade. He has held executive positions in Marketing, Trading, Manufacturing, Strategy & Business Development and most recently as CEO of the CBH Group.

He is currently non-executive Director on the Boards of Rice Growers Ltd (SunRice), RAC Holdings Ltd and Macquarie Infrastructure Advisory Boards of Lawson Grains Pty Ltd and Viridis Ag Pty Ltd, and The Committee for Perth. He was former non-executive Director of Interflour Pte Ltd and former Chairman of the Business Council of Co Operatives and Mutuals.

Dr Crane holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies, a PhD in Remote Sensing of Agriculture and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Directors.

Dr Vanessa Guthrie is a highly accomplished executive and Non-Executive Director with broad and strategic experience across a portfolio of Board positions.

Deputy Chair and Lead Independent Director of Adbri Ltd, and serves as a Director on the boards of Santos Limited, Tronox Holdings PLC, Lynas Rare Earths Limited and Cricket Australia.

Substantial experience in the mining industry in diverse roles including operations, environment, community, indigenous affairs and corporate development and sustainability.

Active Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), Chief Executive Women, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE).

Qualifications in geology, environment, law and business management, including a Doctor of Philosophy in Geology and an Honorary Doctor of Science from Curtin University.

Mr David Southam is a senior business executive and company director of ASX listed and private enterprises spanning a range of industries including Resources, Logistics, Technology, Contracting, Industrials and Banking.

As an existing Managing Director and Non-Executive Director, he brings a wealth of experience and perspectives from the Boardroom, ranging from leading operations, communication with domestic/ international institutional investors and other stakeholders, to being an Audit Committee Chairman and Nomination & Remuneration Committee Chairman.

As a leader, and part of a team, he has executed significant corporate transactions including substantial divestments and acquisitions into both private equity and small to large ASX corporations. In addition, he has executed material capital market transactions, directed operational enterprises, reset and developed strategic plans and negotiated many billion-dollar sales contracts. This background has involved specific global mandates, including Europe, UK, China, Japan, Korea, USA and Canada.

Mr Southam has a Bachelor of Commerce from Curtin University and is a Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Dr Kate Stannage is a leading Orthopaedic Surgeon and experienced Board member. She is Head of the Department of Orthopaedics at the Perth Children’s Hospital and the immediate Past President of the Australian Paediatric Orthopaedic Society – the first woman to be president of an orthopaedic subspecialty organisation.

Dr Stannage has previously sat on the Board of Healthy Hips Australia and is currently on the Board of Australian Doctors for Africa and Orthopaedic Outreach. She has been an Australian Medical Association representative on the Government Working Group looking at sexual harassment within the medical workplace, and the Western Australian representative on the Australian Orthopaedic Association’s Orthopaedic Women’s Link.

In 2018 she was the Western Australian winner of the Excellence in Women’s Leadership award.

Dr Stannage has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor Surgery from UWA and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Orthopaedics). She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Dale Pinto is a Professor of Taxation Law at Curtin University’s Law School in Western Australia and Chair of Curtin’s Academic Board. He currently serves on the Council of Curtin University and is also the elected Academic Representative for Curtin on the UniSuper Consultative Committee.

He is the author/co-author of numerous books, refereed articles and national and international conference papers, and is on the editorial board of a number of peer reviewed journals as well as being the Editor-in-Chief of several refereed journals including being Co-Editor of the A-ranked Australian Tax Review. Dale is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and a Chartered Accountant (CA) as well as being a Fellow of CPA Australia (FCPA). He has been a member of CPA Australia’s Centre of Tax Excellence and Past President of the WA Division of CPA Australia and is currently a CPA Board member and National Deputy President. He is the Immediate Past Chair of the Taxation Institute’s Education Quality Assurance Board (EQAB) and is a member of TEQSA’s Expert Panel in accounting, taxation and international education. Dale served as an inaugural member of the National Tax Practitioners Board and is a current member of the Board of Taxation’s High Level Advisory Panel and the ATO’s Public Advice Guidance Panel. Dale is also an Executive Member of the Australian Branch of the International Tax Policy Think Tank, the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and has been a Member of CCIWA’s Economic Development Forum.

Dale is a Life Member of the Australasian Tax Teachers Association (ATTA) and also the Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) and is an Honorary Life Member of the Taxation Institute and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (FAAL), which is the fifth learned Academy of Australia which only admits “persons of exceptional distinction in the discipline of law who are demonstrably committed to the objects of the Academy.” Members of the Academy include members drawn from parts of the legal community, including academia, the practising profession (including private and public sectors), and the judiciary including former Chief Justice Robert Shenton French AC.

Professor Harlene Hayne was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Curtin University in April 2021, having previously been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago in New Zealand.

Professor Hayne received a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College, and a Master of Science and PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience from Rutgers University.  She joined the University of Otago in 1992, ultimately becoming Vice-Chancellor in 2011.

Professor Hayne is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and of the Association for Psychological Science.  In 2009 she was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to scientific and medical research, and in 2012 received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Colorado College, USA.

Professor Hayne is a former Chair of Universities New Zealand, Te Pōkai Tara, the peak body for the country’s universities.  She also chaired the Universities New Zealand Research Committee and has been a member of the Board of Treasury and the Board of Fulbright New Zealand.

Professor Hayne has published widely in the area of memory development and adolescent risk taking, and has supervised numerous PhD, Master and undergraduate Honours theses. She was the Associate Editor of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Memory, the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, and the New Zealand Journal of Psychology and is a member of the Editorial Board of Infant Behaviour and Development and of Developmental Psychobiology.

Professor Julia Richardson is the Head of the School of Management and Marketing in the Faculty of Business and Law, at Curtin.  She received her PhD from the University of Otago, New Zealand and her Masters’ degree from Manchester Victoria University, UK. Professor Richardson is an internationally recognised expert in Careers and Human Resources Management and former chair of the Careers Division of the Academy of Management. She has enjoyed a global career in both the private and public sectors in the UK, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, New Zealand and Canada. Professor Richardson is a member of the New Zealand Expert Business Performance Panel working with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, and Associate Editor of two top tier academic journals. She has also won multiple awards for her research and teaching.

Professor Richardson’s current research examines ‘The future of careers’, career sustainability, flexible work practices, work performance and well-being, and work-life balance. A ‘first in family’ to attend University she is committed to equity in access to learning, particularly for regional, remote and rural communities. She has also served as a Board Member on not-for-profit boards supporting victims of domestic abuse.

Post Nominals: BSc(Hons) (Glamorgan, UK), MA (Manchester, UK), PhD (Otago, NZ)

Ms Kim Gibson is a Physiotherapy graduate who has enjoyed more than 35 years in the health industry experiencing physiotherapy practice, clinical education, clinical governance, health professional regulation, health service management, governance and reform. She has a diverse work history that has taken her from Perth to regional WA, Switzerland, Egypt and the UK working in public, private, community and hospital settings.

Her ties to Curtin have continued since graduation in roles including clinical educator, sessional academic and project consultant across many of the health sciences. Her current focus is on bringing both work experience and governance expertise to several Board roles including Chair of the Physiotherapy Board of Australia and Deputy Chair, South Metropolitan Health Service Board.

Kim holds a Master of Arts in Public Sector Leadership, is a Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Management and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Dr Samantha Hall has a long standing professional and learning relationship with Curtin.
She completed her first business degree with the University and later returned for a career shift into environmental science and sustainability. Samantha’s academic research focused on health and sustainability impacts of the built environment. For her postdoctoral studies she led an industry based project evaluating evidence-based design approaches for healthy buildings.

She left academia after progressing through Curtin’s innovation pipeline and now has a successful business in the Higher Education estates and property sector. She works with universities globally on improving student and campus experience. Her work has been recognised with several awards – Curtin Innovation, WA Innovator of the Year Finalist, AMP Change Maker and 40 Under 40.

Qualifications: B.Comm, MsC, PhD, Post-doctorate, Member WA State Design Review Panel