Ed Davis
Dean, Division of Economic & Financial Studies (EFS), Macquarie University
Professor Ed Davis AM is Dean of the Division of Economic and Financial Studies at Macquarie University. From 1988-2002 he was a Professor at Macquarie Graduate School of Management and was Deputy Director from 1996-2002. He holds a Master of Arts from Cambridge, a Master of Economics from Monash and a PhD from La Trobe University. During 1992 he held the post of Distinguished Academic Visitor at Queens College, Cambridge.

Peter McGraw
Director, Labour-Management Studies Foundation, Macquarie University
Peter is Director of the Labour Management Studies Foundation and Associate Professor in the School of Business, Division of Economic and Financial Studies at Macquarie University. Prior to joining EFS in February 2005 Peter was a faculty member at Macquarie Graduate School of Management. He has also worked as an academic at the University of Technology, Sydney and an industrial relations practitioner in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Melanie O'Connor
Managing Director, The Academy Network
Melanie is considered to be one of the foremost advisers in Australia in the development of talent management and capability strategies. She ran her own business, Strategic Human Resource Solutions Pty Ltd for many years and prior to that was General Manager, Human Resources for NRMA Ltd.

Valerie Pratt
Visiting Professor, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
From 1986 to 1994 Professor Pratt was Founding Director of the Commonwealth Government's Affirmative Action Agency, responsible for implementation of the Affirmative Action Act 1986. Prior to this position she was Divisional Personnel Manager for CSR Ltd, and held various roles involved in social planning, personnel policy and research. She represented Australia at the ILO Conference in Equal Opportunty and Restrictive Legistation in 1989 and co-hosted the Conference on Equal Opportunity in the South East Asian Region in 1990.

Judyth Sachs
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Provost), Macquarie University
Professor Judyth Sachs is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Provost), Macquarie University where her position has major responsibility for all academic matters. She was Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Teaching for the University of Sydney, after joining Sydney as Professor of Education in 1996. Her other roles have included Chair of the Academic Board (2001-2004) and Pro-Dean of the Faculty of Education (1999-2001). She also currently serves on the editorial boards of a range of educational advisory groups in the UK, US and in Hong Kong.

Sandra Triulzi
Senior Consultant, UGL Consulting
Over the past two decades Sandra has consulted in organisational development and change management strategies and implementation. She currently holds the position of Senior Consultant with UGL Consulting and has previously worked with QANTAS, Westpac and Lend Lease.