NSW TAFE is the largest provider of vocational education and training in the world. The role of the board is to advise the Minister for Education and Training in New South Wales on the key training issues facing industry, and to provide strategic advice. My role with TAFE has given me considerable exposure to the issues facing rural and regional New South Wales, as well as our major metropolitan centres.

The Sydney Writers' Festival is a joint initiative of the Premier's Department and the City of Sydney. The festival is a week-long celebration of readers and writers, which sees internationally renowned writers in Sydney, with the best of Australia's current and emerging authors.

An initiative of the Federal Government, and funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, Books Alive! promotes books and reading with an annual retail event, which in its first year (2003) lifted book sales Australia-wide by 23% on the same month in the previous year.

The work of the board is to attract major sporting and cultural events to New South Wales. Recent successes include the awarding of the World Masters Games, to be held in Sydney in 2009.

This is a new role for me which will see me continuing to work with Australia's most creative advertising agency in an area I'm really passionate about - talent development.

The Taronga Foundation is the fund-raising arm for both Taronga and Dubbo Plains Zoo.

In June 2002 I was honoured with an appointment as an Officer in the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday honours. The citation was for services to the community, particularly to women's organizations, the development and management of vocational education and training, and the advertising industry.

I am Past President of Chief Executive Women, and the YWCA of Sydney, and a former board member of Musica Viva, the world's largest performing arts touring organisation. I continue to serve on the Advisory Board of our premier business school, the Australian Graduate School of Management.