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Diane Smith-Gander AO
Chancellor (elect), The University of Western Australia;
Chair, Zip Co, HBF Health, Perenti, Sovereign Capability Group
The AICC is pleased to launch the 2025 Chairman’s Circle
with Diane Smith-Gander AO. With an accomplished career over 40 years in
the making, Diane will be sharing her insights into the common decision-making
factors impacting a breadth of industries such as financial payment systems,
health, mining and integrated technology systems, and the key questions
that leaders will need to navigate with their teams in the year ahead.
OUR SPEAKER
Diane Smith-Gander AO is a professional company director with an accomplished business career 40 years in the making. Diane is Chair of Zip Co, Perenti Limited and private health insurer HBF. She is also outgoing National Chair of CEDA, Committee for the Economic Development of Australia. In 2025 she will become the 16th & first female, Chancellor of the University of Western Australia.
A keen advocate for gender equity Diane is past President of Chief Executive Women, Australia’s pre-eminent women’s advocacy group. In 2019 Diane was made an officer in the Order of Australia for services to business, women’s engagement in executive roles, gender equality and the community.
A former representative basketball player, Diane is a past chair of Basketball Australia and Australia's national anti-doping organisation. She now chairs the independent Nominations Committee of the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA).
Diane holds an MBA
from the University of Sydney and a BEc and Honorary Doctorate of Economics
from UWA. A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and
Governance Institute of Australia, in 2019 Diane was made an officer in the
Order of Australia for services to business, women’s engagement in executive
roles, gender equality and the community.