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 A/Prof Marguerite Bramble GAICD - President of AAG and Chair of the AAG Board of Directors (Chair of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee)Associate Professor Marguerite Bramble is a senior academic and leader in aged care with national collaborations across disciplines. An AAG member and committee member across Tasmania, Queensland and NSW, involvement has included leading hot topic events, coordinating the NSW Rural Conference 2018 and contributing to national working groups. As an author and peer reviewer for the Australasian Journal of Ageing her expertise provides leverage in translating aged care policy and governance to practice. Prior to her academic career her corporate experience as a manager and consultant ranged from graduating as a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors to board membership and serving on a number of senior management committees linked to boards in both private and public sectors. |
 Professor Linda Rosenman GAICD - Chair of the Trustees of the AAG Research Trust and AAG appointee to the AJA Inc Management CommitteeProfessor Linda Rosenman has been a member of AAG for 25 years. She has recently retired after an academic and senior management career at University of Queensland where she is professor emeritus, Victoria University (Melbourne) and Charles Darwin University where she is a professorial research fellow. Her research focuses upon superannuation and retirement incomes, financial elder abuse and intergenerational transfers of care and wealth. |
 Dr Claudia Meyer AAG Vice President , Deputy Chair of both the AAG Board and Trustees of the AAG Research Trust and SECG National RepresentativeDr Claudia Meyer is a Research Fellow at the Bolton Clarke Research Institute in Melbourne. Bolton Clarke is a large not-for-profit organisation providing services across the spectrum for at-home support, retirement village living and residential care across Australia, New Zealand and parts of Asia. Claudia combines her skills as an experienced physiotherapist with her research expertise, moving research into action for community-dwelling older people and their carers, specifically in the areas of equity in healthcare, falls prevention and dementia care. She draws upon her expanding network in the community care, hospital and academic sectors to drive her belief in reducing the gap between research and clinical practice. Dr Meyer is the immediate Past President of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) Council of Student Organisations, continuing as the Asia-Oceania representative. She has been an AAG Victorian Executive committee member since 2008 and has served as the National President of the Student and Early Career Group. |
 Susan Staples GAICD - Treasurer of AAG and AAG Research Trust (Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk Management Committee)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. |
 Dr Victoria CornellVictoria 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. 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 Kate-Ellen ElliottDr Kate-Ellen Elliott is a Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia, in the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, and a registered Clinical Psychologist. Her field is in psychogeriatrics, particularly older adults’ psychological adjustment to health conditions. She has practiced and published in the areas of aged and dementia care, workforce and older adult mental health, psycho-oncology, as well as implementation and translational health services research. Over the past six years, Kate-Ellen has contributed to the AAG’s Tasmanian Division as President and Student and Early Career representative. She has worked collaboratively to host gerontology events that attracted local media and awarded travel bursaries. Kate-Ellen was also a founding co-convenor for the special interest group on Ageing, Workforce and Education (AWE). She has led and contributed to, local and national networks and advisory groups on aged care workforce health and wellbeing. |
 Dr Chris Hatherly GAICD |
 Professor Gill Lewin |
 Toni Roberts - Board lead for ATSIAAG and Chair of AAG RAP Working Group 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 |
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Nov 2020
