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| Occupation(s) | Educator, advocate, mentor and leader |
Shirley Kaye Randell (born 8 March 1940) is an educator, advocate, mentor and leader. She is an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), having received the award in 2010 for her services to international relations through education, public sector, institutional reform and economic empowerment of women in Australia, the Pacific, Asia and Africa.
Randell is a board member of the Australian Government Women’s Alliance – Economic Security for Women, [1] the indigo foundation, and Paper Crown Institute of Canada. [2] She is an Ambassador of Dignity Ltd, the Australian Centre for Leadership for Women (ACLW), [2] Women’s International Cricket League/FairBreak and The International Alliance for Women (TIAW). [2] She is a member of the Graduate Women International Projects Committee, the Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund Development Committee, and sits on the several editorial boards including the BioMedical-Central Women’s Health Journal. [3] As of 2021 she is president of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia Council (ISAA). [4]
Randell was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1988 [5] and promoted to Officer (AO) in 2010. [6] Randell has received the Distinguished Alumna Award, from the University of New England [7] for "international promotion of women’s rights" and the University of Canberra, [8] The Financial Review/Westpac Inaugural Australian100 Women of Influence [9] and The International Alliance of Women 100 World of Difference Awards for "contributions to economic empowerment of women in the community". [10]
Randell has contributed to reports including: the Commonwealth report Evaluation of the Impact of Rwandan Women’s Political Leadership on Democracy and Development, [11] and the joint ILO-UNESCO report Violence and Insecurity in Schools for Teaching Personnel: Impact on Educational Access. [9]
The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) is an Australian Government statutory agency that forms part of the overseas aid program in the Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio, reporting to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. ACIAR was established under the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Act 1982 (Cth),(the ACIAR Act), as amended, to identify agricultural problems in developing problems and brokers Australian agricultural scientists to find solutions.
Marilyn Lee Lake, is an Australian historian known for her work on the effects of the military and war on Australian civil society, the political history of Australian women and Australian racism including the White Australia Policy and the movement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander human rights. She was awarded a personal chair in history at La Trobe University in 1994. She has been elected a Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan pediatrician and co-founder and the former vice chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity (2017-2022). In 1996, she returned to Rwanda where she provided clinical care in the public sector as well as held many positions including the position of Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Health of Rwanda from October 2008 until May 2011 and Minister of Health from May 2011 until July 2016. She has been a professor of global health delivery practice since 2016 and a professor of pediatrics since 2017 at the University of Global Health Equity. She resides in Kigali.
Susan Marie "Sue" Alberti is an Australian businesswoman, philanthropist and former Vice President of the Western Bulldogs Football Club.
Betty Ann Kitchener is an Australian mental health educator who co-founded Mental health first aid training.
Yetnebersh Nigussie is an Ethiopian lawyer and disability rights activist. In 2017, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "her inspiring work promoting the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities, allowing them to realise their full potential and changing mindsets in our societies."
Thomas Edwin Calma,, is an Aboriginal Australian human rights and social justice campaigner, and 2023 senior Australian of the Year. He is the sixth chancellor of the University of Canberra, a post held since January 2014, after two years as deputy chancellor. Calma is the second Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person to hold the position of chancellor of any Australian university.
Elizabeth Broderick is an Australian lawyer, who was the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner for over eight years from 2007 to 2015 and has been a United Nations special rapporteur for Discrimination against Women and Girls since 2017. She is a former partner and head of legal technology at Ashurst Australia, a global commercial law firm.
Wendy Elizabeth McCarthy is an Australian businesswoman, activist and former university administrator. McCarthy has worked for reform across the public, private and community sectors, in education, family planning, human rights, public health, and overseas aid and development, as well as in conservation, heritage, and media.
Dr Heather Patricia Melville is a British banker, the Senior Managing Director of Teneo and Chancellor of the University of York, UK.
Elizabeth Howe Bradley is the eleventh President of Vassar College, a role she assumed on July 1, 2017. Bradley also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Political Science and Professor of Science, Technology, and Society.
Dr. Rashmi Tiwari is the Founder and Director of the Aahan Tribal Foundation of India, working to dismantle the machinery of trafficking. She is Fellow of Vital Voices (USA), Fellow of SIMP and a Certified Leadership Coach from NeuroLeadership Institute.
Alice Ouédraogo is a Burkinabé public health official. A lawyer by profession she has worked extensively with the International Labour Organization (ILO). Ouédraogo was ILO representative to Cameroon and Ethiopia and also director of its Central Africa region. She is currently head of the ILO HIV/AIDS programme and works to reduce the transmission of HIV and increase the number of people in treatment.
Naomi Milgrom is an Australian billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist. Her private company ARJ Group Holdings owns women's clothing retailers Sportsgirl, Sussan and Suzanne Grae.
Theopista Sekitto Ntale,, is a Ugandan banker, social entrepreneur and philanthropist, who serves an ambassador of Global Banking Alliance for Women, on the African continent. She also concurrently serves as the Uganda Country Director of New Faces New Voices, an international non-profit, that aims to empower African women and improve their economic and social well-being.
Fran Baum is an Australian social scientist who conducts research on the social and economic influences and determinants of health. She is director of the Southgate Institute of Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University, Australia, and became an Officer of the Order of Australia for her advocacy work on "improved access to community health care, and to professional organisations". In 2006, Baum was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Fiza Farhan is a Pakistani social entrepreneur and activist.
Jean Enid Skuse is an Australian Christian leader and ecumenist who served as the general secretary of the Australian Council of Churches and the Vice-Moderator of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC).
Sally Redman is a New Zealand-born Australian public health researcher and chief executive officer of the Sax Institute in Sydney, where she leads the 45 and Up Study, a NSW-wide project with over 260,000 participants responding to questionnaires on healthy ageing.
Janice Lillian Fullerton is an Australian librarian. She was the first woman to be appointed Director General of the National Library of Australia (NLA) and first internal appointment to the role.
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