Susan is a Director in KPMG’s Governance, Risk and Controls practice, providing advice to c-suite executives and boards across all sectors in strategic risk framework development and implementation, board and director duties and internal controls review. Her work focuses on supporting and strengthening corporate and board governance for both public and private sector clients, in a dynamic and constantly changing environment. Susan is a lead author of KPMG;s Directors’ Toolkit and led the development of the Victorian Health Services Directors’ Toolkit. Susan’s has a deep connection with the not-for-profit, with direct experience working in the disability sector and large portfolio of human services clients.

Victoria is the Housing Research Manager at ECH, one of SA’s largest independent living and aged care services providers; and a research active Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

As a social gerontologist, Victoria is undertaking research including in-home care provision, community connectedness, the built environment and housing - especially alternative models of housing, and housing for vulnerable older people.Victoria convenes AAG’s Housing and the Built Environment special interest group.

In 2019 Victoria was awarded the AV Jennings Churchill Fellowship to investigate alternative, affordable models of housing that could help older Australians to age-in-place. For the Fellowship, Victoria will be visiting the USA, Germany, Denmark, Singapore and Japan.

Dr Chris Hatherly GAICD
Dr Chris Hatherly has been a member of the AAG since 2007, serving as ACT Division Treasurer (2010-12) and President (2012-15), as National Student Representative (2009), and as a Founding Director of the AAG Board on a one-year term in 2012. He was made an AAG Fellow in 2013.

Chris has a PHD in psychology from the ANU specialising in cognitive ageing, and currently works as Executive Director of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He was previously Director of Science Policy at the Academy of Science and National Research Manager at Alzheimer’s Australia. These roles have involved effective advocacy to Federal Government Ministers and significant interaction with senior stakeholders in government, academia and industry.

Professor Gill Lewin
Professor Gill Lewin currently holds the position of Research and Evaluation Specialist at Access Care Networks Australia (ACNA). Prior to her present position and a period working overseas, Gill worked at both Curtin University and the University of Western Australia. In Curtin as Professor in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine and in UWA as Research Academic in the West Australian Centre for Rural Health. Gill has been involved in research on ageing since she joined Silver Chain, a large Australian not for profit community health and aged provider, as the Research Manager in August 1993. Her particular research interest during her time at Silver Chain was the development and testing of care models that promote the independence of older people.

Toni Roberts - Board lead for ATSIAAG and Chair of AAG RAP Working Group
Toni Roberts is a Manager of a Flexible Aged Care Facility in Maningrida, a remote community in the Northern Territory. Toni has held this position since 2017 – prior to this Toni held a similar position in another remote NT community. Toni is originally from Perth and worked for the WA government for over 20 years.

Toni holds a diploma in Community Management. Toni is currently undertaking a Diploma in Indigenous Culture. Toni received a Community Services Award from the Governor General in 2018. This was in recognition of the work and commitment to improve the care and outcomes for Aboriginal people particularly Aged and People with a Disability.

Toni is passionate about providing services to people that are person centred, culturally appropriate and promote choice and control.

Anita Westera
Anita’s passion is improving the care and support of older people through strengthening the nexus between research, policy and practice. She is an academic, registered nurse and former policy adviser to the Commonwealth, NSW Governments and NSW Parliament. As a Research Fellow at the Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, she undertakes applied research and evaluation projects regarding older people, aged care, dementia and mental health services, including supporting the work of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Her 2020 election to the AAG Board of Directors and Trustees of the AAG Research Trust builds on over two decades involvement within the NSW and Illawarra AAG Commitees.

Dr Katrina Radford (BPsych (hons), MHRM, PhD, GradCertHighEdu)

Katrina is a lecturer at Griffith University. My research program focuses on managing an ageing population in three key areas: 1) How can we better support an ageing workforce? 2) How can we better retain and support employees within the aged care sector?, and 3) How can we build better systems or programs that provide quality care for the ageing population?