 Professor Di Yerbury |
 Professor Yerbury with NSHSS group at Macquarie University Art Gallery. |
Our Board members have achieved success in a variety of areas on the national and international stage from politics to entertainment, from sports to education. They have joined our board in order to connect with and to share their passions and interests with a new generation of outstanding young leaders. The Society will benefit from their feedback and inspiration as both the board and our members scale new heights in the future.
Di Yerbury
Di Yerbury recently retired as Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University (February 2006). She was Australia's first woman Vice-Chancellor (the U.S. equivalent of university president), joining Macquarie University, Sydney, in January 1987. She received her Ph.D. from Melbourne University and has expertise in the arts, education, government, international operations, and public administration. She chairs the boards of several arts bodies and has served on many committees and boards of education, government, business and arts organizations and has conducted reviews of personnel management and industrial relations for governments in Australia and overseas (including in Hong Kong and Zambia). She is a Director of the Board of Citibank Australia.
She holds several prominent positions in the international field, including the longest serving President of IDP Education Australia (the International Development Program of Australian universities); Chair of the Council of ACT and NSW Directors of International Programs (CANDIP); President of the Asia-Pacific Higher Education Research Network (APHERN); and member of UNESCO's National Education Network in Australia. For many years she served on the Board of the Australian Education Office in Washington D.C., and was Australia's nominee on the Council of the University of the South Pacific. She was named New South Wales Telstra Business Woman of the Year in 2002. Di (as she prefers to be called) is an avid collector and custodian of Indigenous artwork from Australia. She is an accomplished, generous, caring, and down-to-earth individual who will make a valuable addition to our Board.
 Dr. Brian Spencer |
Dr. Spencer has forty-one years of experience in university administration in Australia. He is a graduate of the University of New South Wales in Commerce and of Macquarie University in Education. He has been Registrar and Vice-Principal of Macquarie University in Sydney, for twenty-one years. As a member of the University's Senior Executive, he is responsible to the University President for supporting the academic administration of the University, for the management of student services and for corporate governance.
In addition to his membership of a large number of University committees, Brian is Chairman of the Board of Higher Ed Systems Pty Ltd, the professional services company owned by the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, a Director of Dunmore Lang College Ltd at Macquarie University, a Director of the nationwide University Coop Bookshop Ltd and a Director of the travel company, Odyssey Adventures Ltd. He is a member of the National Board of Advisors, AIESEC Australia and was admitted to the AIESEC Alumni Hall of Fame in Agra, India. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.
Brian's interests include sailing, bushwalking, and rugby union. His advice to young people is to get involved in a wide range of extra-curricular activities at school and in their community to build life skills to complement their academic achievements.