Housing Choices Australia - Our Profile

Saul Eslake

Julie Mitchell

Saul is a well-known international and Australian leader and commentator in economics. In addition to a high profile commercial career, he has held numerous high-profile positions including a board directorship at the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) and senior roles at The National Housing Supply Council and the Grattan Institute. He has a Bachelor of Economics (Honours), is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and completed the Senior Executive Program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York.

Meredith Sussex Meredith Sussex is Chair of the Fishermans Bend Ministerial Advisory Committee in Victoria and a non-executive director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. She has also been a non-executive director of a number of Boards, including the Board of the Port of Melbourne. She lectures in the masters programme on urban governance at the University of New South Wales and provides high-level consulting advice on public policy, planning and management. Meredith has held senior positions in the Victorian Government, including Deputy Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet. From 2002-2006 she led the Oce of Commonwealth Games Coordination, for which she was awarded the Order of Australia in 2007. Julie is a corporate social responsibility and strategic communications specialist. She has extensive experience in the design and delivery of complex and large-scale strategic communication programs in the corporate internal and external environment, as well as in issues management, and stakeholder engagement and management. Julie has designed and executed multi-dimensional community investment programs in locations throughout Australia and Asia for both corporate and not-for-profit organisations. Her interest in social housing stems from her early involvement in the establishment of Common Ground in Adelaide which is complemented by her involvement in the aged care sector.

Fabienne Michaux

Fab has held a variety of executive and non-executive roles in a career spanning 30 years, including 22 years with S&P Global Ratings where she was Australian Country Head and Head of Developed Markets Asia-Pacific. She is principal of Petrichor Consulting Services Pty Ltd, member of the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing, board member and social enterprise advisory committee member of The Song Room, chair of KAGE Physical Theatre Inc., and an advisory board member of Deakin’s School of Business and Law. Fab holds a Bachelor of Business (Economics and Finance) with Distinction from RMIT University, and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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