Our Board

Experience and expertise

Appointed to the Board as an independent director on 1 July 2017 and elected Chair on 1 January 2023. Mr Armour has considerable experience in global funds management and broader financial services, both globally and in Australia. Mr Armour has gained his experience in the UK, USA and Hong Kong as well as Australia. Some key executive roles included Head of Invesco’s European and Middle Eastern business, their global Institutional business and CEO of Australia, as well as CEO of funds management of AXA Australia. Mr Armour has held numerous Board and Chair roles with Invesco, AXA, National Mutual and other groups, most recently Chair of Invesco UK, and Director of the Investment Association (UK), the UK’s peak investment industry body.

Current directorships

Chair

• Lab 35

Director

• Super Members Council of Australia Limited
• SMCA Operations Pty Ltd

Other positions

• Blue Sky IP Ltd (Adviser)

Special Responsibilities

• Member, Investment Committee (Chair from 1 October 2017 to 3 February 2023)
• Member, People and Remuneration Committee (Appointed 1 January 2023)

Experience and expertise

Appointed to the Board as an independent director on 1 December 2015. Ms Rubinsztein, a highly respected leader and author in the fields of retirement and gender diversity, currently holds non-executive directorships in the finance industry and Greenpeace, and a pro bono role on the Conexus Institute Advisory Board. Formerly a senior executive in the wealth management industry, having held three general manager roles at Commonwealth Bank of Australia/Colonial First State over a period of 14 years as well as senior roles at BT as the Vice President and Head of Product Management and a consulting actuary role at Towers Perrin. President of the Actuaries Institute in 2019 and previously on the board of ASFA from 2007 to 2015 and chair of its Super System Design Council. Ms Rubinsztein was recognised for her work in superannuation policy and was awarded ASFA Lifetime Membership, ASFA Distinguished Service Award and the inaugural Financial Services Council Industry Excellence Award. Ms Rubinsztein is also a UNSW Alumni Leader, a member of Macquarie University’s Faculty of Business and Economics Industry Advisory Board, a member of AICD APRA Regulated Entities Forum and author of the book "Not Guilty".

Current directorships

Zurich Group

• OnePath General Insurance Pty Ltd
• Zurich Australia Limited
• Zurich Financial Services Australia Limited
• Zurich Investment Management Limited
• Zurich Australian Insurance Limited (Appointed 1 January 2023)

CBHS Health Fund (Deputy Chair)

Greenpeace Australia Pacific Limited

Special responsibilities

• Chair, Member Services Committee (Chair from 1 July 2024) (previously Insurance Committee).
• Member, Finance and Risk Committee (From 1 July 2024) (Previously Audit, Risk & Compliance Committee - Member from 24 February 2016, Chair from 2 November 2023 to 30 April 2024)

Experience and expertise

Appointed to the Board as an independent director on 1 January 2023. Mr Warne trained as an actuary and has had a distinguished career in financial services spanning over 40 years. He recently retired as Chair of Macquarie Group after 6 years in the role and 15 years as a director. Over the course of his career, he has served on the board of a number of ASX-listed and private companies and Government bodies, including ASX Limited and TCorp; prior to which he had a long and highly successful executive career at Bankers Trust Australia Limited, where he headed the Global Financial Markets Group.

Current directorships

• Argo Investments Limited
• IPH Limited (Chair)
• Allens

Other positions

• Member, NSW Net Zero Emissions and Clean Economy Board (Ceased 24 May 2024)
• Consultant to the Board of Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Limited (1 January 2023)
• Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors Corporate Governance Committee
• Chair, St Andrew’s Cathedral School Foundation

Special responsibilities

• Chair, Investment Committee (3 February 2023; member from 1 January 2023)
• Member, Finance and Risk Committee (From 1 July 2024) (Previously Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee (Appointed 2 November 2023)
  

Experience and expertise

Nominated by the Shareholder Universities and appointed to the Board on 4 November 2015, Professor Dawkins was Vice-Chancellor and President of Victoria University from 2011 until he retired in December 2020. Professor Dawkins has also held senior roles in the Victorian Public Service, Deputy Secretary of the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance (2005-2006) and Secretary of the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (2006-2010). Professor Dawkins was Professor of Economics at Curtin University (1990-1995) and the Ronald Henderson Professor and Director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne (1996 2005).

Between 2011 and 2015, Professor Dawkins was a Board Member of the Victorian Education and Research Network (VERNet), an Executive Committee Member of the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association (AHEIA), and the Board of the Business-Higher Education Roundtable (B-HERT), positions he ceased to hold in November 2015 when he joined the UniSuper Board. Until December 2022, Professor Dawkins was also a member of the Western Metropolitan Partnership, an advisory group established by the Victorian Government.

In 2021, Professor Dawkins was appointed Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Mitchell Institute for Education and Health Policy, Victoria University. At the request of the Federal Minister for Education during 2021 Professor Dawkins co led a review of university-industry collaboration in teaching and learning. In December 2022, Professor Dawkins took on the role of Interim Director, Jobs and Skills Australia, leading its establishment phase.

• Western Bulldogs Forever Foundation
• West of Melbourne Economic Development Alliance (WoMEDA) (Chair)

Other positions held:

• Interim Director: Jobs and Skills Australia (Appointed: December 2022 to 19 August 2023)
• Acting Commissioner: Jobs and Skills Australia (Appointed: 20 August 2023 to 6 October 2023)
• Member, Council of the University of Tasmania
• Member, Australian Public Service Commission’s Learning Board (Appointed: December 2023)
• Special Advisor, Jobs and Skills Australia (Appointed: 4 December 2023 to 16 May 2024)

Special responsibilities

• Member, Investment Committee

Experience and expertise

Nominated by the Shareholder Universities and appointed to the Board on 25 October 2021. Professor Harding was the Vice Chancellor and President of James Cook University Australia, a position held from January 2007 until her retirement in February 2022. As Vice Chancellor, Professor Harding was responsible for the leadership and management of the University across campuses in Cairns, Singapore and Townsville. Professor Harding held recent past directorships with Advance Cairns Limited, Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Limited, Townsville Enterprise Limited, Australian Institute of Marine Science Education Australia Limited, and North Queensland Cowboys Rugby League Football Limited.

Educated at the Australian National University, The University of Queensland and North Carolina State University (USA), Professor Harding has extensive academic and academic leadership experience. An economic sociologist by training areas of enduring academic interest includes work, organisation and markets and how they operate. She also has a keen interest in public policy in the areas of, education policy and the global Tropics, northern Australia and economic development. Professor Harding has also held a wide variety of senior university-aligned roles and was a member and director of a variety of local, national and international Boards and Councils. Professor Harding was appointed a Life Governor on the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Limited. In 2021, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) established a Statistical Independent Assurance Panel (SIAP) to provide an independent view on the quality of statistical information arising from the 2021 Census of Population and Housing, Professor Harding chaired this panel in 2021 and previously in 2016 as its inaugural Chair.

Chair

• North Queensland Airport Group (Appointed: 28 July 2023), comprising:
  • North Queensland Airports No. 2 (Mackay) Pty Ltd (Appointed: 28 July 2023)
  • Cairns Airport Holding Company Pty Ltd (Appointed: 28 July 2023)
  • Cairns Airport Pty Ltd (Appointed: 28 July 2023)
  • Mackay Airports Holding Company Pty Ltd (Appointed: 28 July 2023)
  • Mackay Airport Pty Ltd (Appointed: 28 July 2023)
  • NQ Airports Finance Pty Ltd (Appointed: 28 July 2023)
  • MAPL Hotel Holdings Pty Ltd (Appointed: 28 July 2023)
  • MAPL Hotel Pty Ltd (Appointed: 28 July 2023)
• Cowboys Community Foundation
• Regional Australia Institute (Effective July 2023)
• University of Notre Dame Australia (Appointed: 19 April 2024)

Other positions held:

Member
• Queensland Community Foundation Board of Governors
• University of Notre Dame Australia, Remuneration and People and Culture Committee (Appointed: 25 March 2024)
Chair
• Western Australia University Sector Review Panel (March – September 2023)
Patron
• Institute for Strategic Leadership (Australia) (Appointed April 2023)

Special Responsibilities

• Member, Member Services Committee (From 1 July 2024) (previously Insurance Committee (Appointed 1 January 2022)
• Member, Technology & Projects Committee (Appointed 1 January 2023)

Experience and expertise

Professor of Communications at Edith Cowan University, in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Prior to joining Edith Cowan University, Professor Green worked as a researcher, director and producer with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Television in London, UK.  As an academic researcher, Professor Green focuses on communications, media, cultural studies, and the construction of communities including communities that are marginalised, disadvantaged or challenged by social factors. 

Professor Green has been a Chief Investigator on six Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grants, seven Linkage projects, and two Edith Cowan University (ECU) nodes in ARC Centres of Excellence.  Her involvement in promoting and mentoring research at ECU has supported high-quality grant successes.

At ECU, Professor Green served on the Academic Board, the Vice-Chancellor’s University Promotions Advisory Committee, and the University Research and Higher Degrees Executive and Committee.  In recognition of her work in research supervision and active mentoring of her 27 graduated PhD students, including the Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, Professor Green was awarded a national Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning – for leadership, commitment and success in learning and teaching through PhD supervision.

Among Professor Green’s long-term collaborations, her work on the International Development Research Centre supported Digital Review of Asia Pacific, from 2003 to 2010 is particularly noteworthy. That work provided the foundation, in part, for her participation in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO’s) Regional Consultation on ‘Policies and initiatives to promote children’s safe, effective and responsible use of ICT’ [Information and Communication Technologies] (Bangkok, 2015), and her 2019 consultancy contribution to the UNESCO-supported report Digital Kids Asia Pacific: Regional findings and policy recommendations.

Professor Green was a member of the Consultative Committee from 2000 until September 2020 choosing not to recontest the election and bringing her 20-year tenure on the Consultative Committee to a close.   In 2016, Professor Green graduated from the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees, having completed the Trustee Director Course.

Current directorships

Nil

Special responsibilities

Member, Member Services Committee (From 1 July 2024) (Previously Insurance Committee (Appointed 16 February 2017)

Experience and expertise

Elected by members of the Consultative Committee representing professional staff and appointed to the Board on 11 November 2019. Currently Ms Griffiths is a School Manager in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the University of Sydney.

Prior to joining FASS, Ms Griffiths was Interim Operations Manager for the NSW Space Research Network, and a Project Officer to the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Entrepreneurship (SPHERE) – supporting academics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Western Sydney University (WSU), and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Ms Griffiths brings more than 20 years’ experience from across the university sector, having successfully held university positions at school, faculty and central levels. Her experience and expertise encompass higher education management, governance, curriculum, marketing, and policy.

Ms Griffiths was a member of the Consultative Committee from 2016 until the conclusion of her term in April 2020 and was re-appointed to the Board in November 2022.

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Special responsibilities

• Member, Technology and Projects Committee (Appointed 1 December 2020)

Experience and expertise

Currently Vice-President, Professional Services at Macquarie University having executive responsibility for people strategies and culture, information technology, marketing and communications, global and domestic student recruitment, and the provision of shared services.  Previously worked as an employment law specialist in private practice and in HR leadership roles at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).  Ms Gower is a member of the Macquarie University Executive Group and is an executive sponsor for several strategic initiatives under the University’s Operating Plan.  A past director of U@MQ Ltd having served on the Board for nine years. Ms Gower is also an accredited mediator and nationally accredited workplace trainer and assessor.

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Special responsibilities

• Chair, People and Remuneration Committee (Appointed 1 July 2022, Member from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2022)

Experience and expertise

Nominated by the national unions and appointed by the Board on 18 May 2020. Currently, Secretary of the Victorian Division of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). Ms Roberts sits on the NTEU National Executive and has previously held employment law leadership and advocacy positions at the NTEU and RMIT University. Former roles include Presidency of the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association and member of the University of Melbourne Council (1999).

Ms Roberts has over 20 years’ experience in strategy, governance, higher education policy and industrial relations, regularly contributes to Australian and international IR publications and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees.

• Federation of Education Unions

Special Responsibilities

• Chair, Technology & Projects Committee (Appointed 1 January 2023, Member from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022)
• Member, People, Remuneration and Nominations Committee (Appointed 2 November 2023)

Experience and expertise

Elected by members of the Consultative Committee representing employers and appointed to the Board on 1 November 2023. With more than 35 years’ experience in the tertiary education sector from across six major Australian universities, Dr Weller’s portfolio was broad spanning from business operations, student services, finance and procurement, governance, information technology, marketing and external relations, people and capability and service and delivery improvement.

Past director roles held by Dr Weller include positions at LH Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Management, the Association of Tertiary Education Management and Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre. Dr Weller’s passion for the tertiary sector is demonstrated by his thirty-five-year career of strategic leadership at six major universities. In his last role, Dr Weller was the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Vice Chancellor at the Australian Catholic University responsible for strategic and operational leadership.

Dr Weller was on UniSuper’s Consultative Committee for under fourteen years.

He is a fellow of the Association of Tertiary Education Management and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

• Director and Chair, Higher Education Services Board

Other Positions

• Member, Teachers Mutual Bank Limited Advisory Committee (Jan-Dec 2024)

Special Responsibilities

• Chair, Finance and Risk Committee (1 July 2024) (Previously Audit Risk & Compliance Committee (Appointed Chair 1 May 2024, Member from 1 November 2023 to 30 April 2024)

Experience and expertise

Nominated  by the national union representing employees in the university sector and appointed by the Board on 1 November 2023. Currently, Division Secretary, National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), Queensland Division. Mr McNally has had a wide and varied career working for DFAT at the World Expo in Seville in 1992, as a TESOL Teacher in England, Poland and Australia and for an airline. Prior to working for the NTEU, he was a casual lecturer and tutor in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, teaching about politics and industrial relations. 

Mr McNally has over nineteen years’ experience working at the NTEU in various roles, having first begun as an Organiser, and then as an Industrial Officer.  

Elected to his current role as the Division Secretary in 2014, Mr McNally sits on the NTEU National Executive which is responsible for governance and administration of the Union nationally. He also manages the staff of the Queensland office and works with the elected union leaders in the 7 main public universities in Queensland. Mr McNally graduated with first class honours from the University of Queensland.

• Nil

Special Responsibilities

• Member, Member Services Committee (From 1 July 2024)