Register of interests

Advised and declared interests of the University's Senate
Below you may access the advised/declared interests and related party transactions (2018 - 2023) for all Senate fellows and committee members.

Senate fellows

Advised
  • Chair, Xero Corporation
  • Chair, Tyro
  • Non-Executive Director, Ramsay Health Care 
  • Co-Chair, Climate Leaders Coalition 
  • Co-Chair, Great Barrier Reef Foundation 
  • Chair, Tech Central Advisory Board 
  • Director, Committee for Sydney
  • Member, Bank of America Advisory Board
  • Member, ASIC Corporate Governance Consultative Panel
  • Member, Nature Finance Council 
  • Lead Reviewer, Capability Review of Services Australia
Declared

Nil

Advised
  • Chair, The Conversation Media Group
  • Wife is Principal of Wenona School
  • Wife is on the Board of Chris O’Brien Lifehouse
  • Director, The Australia and New Zealand School of Government

Declared 

At the Building and Estates Committee meeting:

  • 3 September 2021: BEC resolved to note that Professor Mark Scott AO was formerly the Chair of Wesley Mission.

Advised
  • Spouse works as an academic at the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney.
Declared

Nil

Advised
  • Director, Cricket Australia
  • Controlling Shareholder & Director, Bruern Pty Ltd
  • Controlling Shareholder & Director, Eco Cars Pty Ltd
  • Controlling Shareholder & Director, Chippendale Farm Pty Ltd
  • Director, REA Group Ltd 
  • Director, Coles Group 
  • Non-Executive Director and Chair, Appen Ltd 
  • Wife is on the Board of Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
Declared

Nil

Advised
  • Professor of Practice (Indigenous Engagement) FMH University of Sydney
  • Professor Emeritus University of Canberra
  • Sole Trader Consultant to Dept of Health and Aged Care (Commonwealth)
  • Member, Accord Implementation Advisory Committee
  • Member, Aged Care Council of Elders (Commonwealth DOHAC)
  • Director, AMLAC Pty Ltd (SMSF)
  • Co-Chair, Reconciliation Australia Board
  • Chair and director, Ninti One Limited and director
  • Share Holder, Ninti Pty Ltd
  • Non-executive director Ninti Training Limited
  • Chair Ninti One Foundation
  • Patron Poche Indigenous Health Centres at University of Sydney, Flinders, Western Australia, Melbourne and Queensland
  • Patron, Winston Churchill Fellowship Trust
  • Patron, Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Australia
  • Patron,  Indigenous Allied Health Australia
  • Patron, University of South Australia Deadly Alumni
  • Patron, ACT Chapter of the Justice Reform Initiative (JRI)
  • Patron, Wakakirri and Big Song
    Trustee
  • Patron, Charlie Perkins Scholarship Trust
  • Ambassador, Mayi Kuwayu (National Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing) ANU
  • Ambassador, Suicide Prevention Australia
  • Co Chair, National Governance Committee (NGC), Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention, UWA
  • Co-Chair, The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation
  • Chair, Living First Language Platform Company
  • Member Cancer Australia’s Leadership Group on Indigenous Cancer Control
  • Member, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use Covid-19 Mental Health Think Tank
  • Member, Australian Genomics Independent Advisory Board
  • Member, the Australian Medical Research Advisory Board (AMRAB)
  • Fellow, the Australian Academy of Science
  • Fellow,  the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)
  • Honorary Fellow, the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
  • Honorary Fellow, the Australian and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
  • Honorary academic appointments at ANU, UQ, and Macquarie University
  • Honorary Doctorate appointments from Charles Darwin, Flinders, Curtin, SA, Canberra and Sydney Universities
 
Declared

Nil

Advised
  • Non-Executive Director and Controlling Investor, Studiosity Pty Ltd
  • Member, LBW Trust / Women for Change Committee
  • Non-Executive Director, Board of Nanosonics Ltd
  • Non-Executive Director, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Board
  • Investor Director, Baymatob Pty Ltd
Declared
  • March 2023: University partnered with Studiosity to provide online learning support for students
Advised

  • Assistant Speaker, NSW Legislative Assembly
  • Chair, NSW Public Accounts Committee
  • Chair, NSW Committee on the Independent Commission Against Corruption
  • Member for Strathfield, New South Wales Parliament
  • Director, Yatsen Associates (Advisory) Limited
  • Controlling Shareholder of Belong Here Pty Ltd
  • Director and Controlling Shareholder of Montag Management Pty Ltd
  • Director and Controlling Shareholder, Vantage Management Pty Ltd

Declared

At the Senate meeting:

  • 19 March 2022: Senate resolved to note the declaration from Jason Yat-sen Li regarding his recent election to the NSW seat of Strathfield for the Labor Party.

Advised

  • Non-Executive Director, Orica Limited
  • Non-Executive Director, Charter Hall Group Limited
  • Non-Executive Director, Snowy Hydro
  • Member, Board of Music in the Regions Ltd
  • Family trust in KRN Family Discretionary Trust
  • Non-Executive Director, The Belvoir Street Theatre
  • Executive Director, Company B Limited

Declared

  • Daughter Dr Rebecca Moses is currently a casual academic at the University of Sydney 

Advised

  • External Councillor, Hospitals Contribution Fund (HCF)
  • External Expert, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) 
  • Member, Australian Research Integrity Committee (Joint Committee of the ARC and the NHMRC)
  • Member, Commonwealth Department of Education Advisory Group for consideration of matters to do with Research in the Australian Universities Accord
  • Member, Expert Advisory Group to support a National Psychosocial Safety Network to assist organisations meet requirements under Work Health and Safety Regulation
  • Sole trader – consultant, Professor Alan Pettigrew
  • Director, Board of RNA Australia Ltd

Declared

  • Son Christopher Pettigrew is Head of the HCF Research Foundation 

Advised
  • Non-Executive Director, Transurban Group
  • Director, O'Connell Street Associates with an ongoing relationship with King Wood Mallesons (KWM)
  • Trustee of CSFT, Machigh
Declared
At Building and Estates Committee meetings:
  • 3 May 2017: In relation to the Health Precinct stage 1 early contract involvement, the chair declared his prior involvement as an advisory board member of Laing O’Rourke in a non-fiduciary capacity.
  • 11 October and 22 November 2017: Mr Scott declared that he has had a previous involvement with Laing O’Rouke, ending in 2009, who have been awarded the main contract for the Engineering Technology Precinct (ETP) project (Item 1.3.1) and are involved in the Susan Wakil Health Building (Item 4.2.2). Mr Scott’s historical declaration does not disqualify him from being included in discussion related to the ETP, for which the final decision has been made.
Advised
  • Consultant, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Vienna
  • Associate Fellow, International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, The Hague
  • Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
  • Advisory Council, Australian Centre for International Justice
  • International Advisory Committee, Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal
  • Foreign Expert Assessor, Quaid-i-Azam School of Law, Pakistan
  • Editorial Board/advisor, Indonesian Journal of International Law; Transnational Criminal Law Review; South Asian Studies in International and Comparative Law; Kathmandu School of Law Review; Perspectives on Terrorism
  • Series Editor (Security and Justice), Hart/Bloomsbery (publisher), London
  • General course lectures 2023, Xiamen Academy of International Law, China
  • Special course lectures 2024, Hague Academy of International Law, The Netherlands
  • Member, Australia New Zealand Society of International Law
  • Member, Amnesty International
  • Member, National Tertiary Education Union
  • Partner Professor Jane McAdam is Professor and Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
  • Special Rapporteur, Human Rights and Counter-terrorism, UN Human Rights Council
Declared

Nil

Advised

Nil

Declared

Nil

Advised

Nil

Declared

Nil

Advised
  • Account Executive – Media & Social Media, Agenda C
  • Member, Liberal Party of Australia
Declared

Nil

Advised
  • Resident, St. Paul's College Graduate House
  • Research Assistant/ Casual Academic Tutor, University of Sydney Business School
  • Life Member, Honorary Secretary/ Board Director 2019 - 2021, University of Sydney Union
  • Strategy Research Consultant at Liverpool City Council
Declared

Nil

External Senate Committee Experts

Advised 

  • Board Director, Sydney Symphony Orchestra
  • Board Director, Financial Executives Institute
  • Executive Coach and Mentor, Stephenson Mansell Group
  • Senior Advisor, Principia
  • Board Member, Jawun 
  • Founder, Susan Ferrier Consulting Pty Limited
  • Chair, Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Message Stick Foundation
  • Chair, Culture Reform Board for Air Services Australia Pty Limited

Declared

Nil

Advised
  • Private Equity Consultant, Aware Super
  • External Board Member of the Investment Committee, Sentient Impact Group
  • Non-Executive Director, Blackwattle Investment Partners

 

 

Declared

Nil

Advised

  • Board Member, Health Infrastructure
  • Director & Principal, DCL Consulting Service Pty Ltd
  • Government advisory work – various agencies (declared as arising)

Declared

At the Building and Estates Committee meeting:

  • 3 May 2017: In relation to the Health Precinct Stage 1 Early Contract Involvement, the Building and Estates Committee noted Ms Leeson’s continued membership on the Health Infrastructure board.

Advised 
  • CEO, State Super 
  • Director, ACSI Board 
Declared 

Nil 

Advised
  • Chair, Centerstone Capital
  • Director, Garvan Medical Research Institute
  • Chair, 6Clicks Pty Ltd
  • Director, Clear Dynamics Pty Ltd
  • Adviser, Deloitte
  • Advisory Board Member, ABN Ltd
  • Advisory Board Member, Weare8
Declared

Nil 

Advised
  • Non-Executive Director, Northrop Engineers Consulting
  • Non-Executive Director, Australian Associated Press
  • Chair, Women for Election
  • Advisory Board, Propel Group (Australia)
  • Advisory Board, Mentor Walks
  • Director, Orchard Cove P/L
  • Member, AICD Faculty
Declared

Nil 

Advised
  • Partner, KPMG
Declared

Nil

Advised
  • Non-Executive Director, Northcott
  • Chairman, Northcott Finance and Properties Committee
  • Director, Sydney Transport Partners (STP)
  • Director, Transurban Chesapeake (TC)
  • Group Executive Partners, Delivery and Risk, Transurban Limited (TCL)
  • Director, Transurban Queensland (TQ)
Declared

Nil