The Hon. John Anderson AO is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from North-West New South Wales, who spent 19 years from 1989 in the Australian Parliament. This included six years as Leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister as a member of the reformist government led by John Howard. The Liberal-National Party coalition oversaw enormous economic reform, including taxation modernisation and the maintenance of a string of budget-surpluses, which resulted in the Australian government leaving a cash surplus when it left office in 2007. John was also made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2011 for his support of rural and regional communities.

John’s recent contributions to public debate have included his Conversations YouTube and podcast series, where he interviews various thought leaders from around the world (johnanderson.net.au). His interviews have now been viewed and listened to millions of times and the influence they have on the wider debate is growing all the time.

John is also active in the not-for-profit sector and has been a sought-after speaker in both Australia and abroad. On leaving politics, Anderson, known as a man of simple Christian faith, was saluted by figures on both sides with overflowing praise; the then Prime Minister John Howard extolling: “I have not met a person with greater integrity in public life”.

Organisations face three big issues – how to rebuild trust, how to respond to digital disruption and how to communicate. I have a professional life that is a rare blend of all three, firstly as a newspaper editor, then as a higher education executive and company director and now as the lead adviser on media for one of Australia's largest superannuation funds. I have joined the QSuper team after 18 months of consulting to it. My last two books, Has The Luck Run Out, and Wake Up - The Nine H#shtags of Digital Disruption have accurately forecast many of the trends we now see across life, particularly the displacement of trust through technology. I am an adjunct professor of business at QUT, a director of Carers Queensland, and the Royal National Association which runs one of Brisbane's biggest entertainment complexes and its annual show (the Ekka). I also chair the Local Government Association of Queensland's Data Ethics Panel and sit on the adjudication panel of the Australian Press Council.

Alastair is a public policy scholar, a crisis management expert and has an ongoing interest in the institutionalization of participatory modes of governance. His current policy research examines the role that institutional amnesia plays in the policy process, his crisis management research has been focused upon the relationship between public inquiries and lesson-learning, and in relation to participatory governance, he is currently examining the validity of different forms of deliberative democracy in the context of Australian environmental policy. Alastair has published widely in high-ranking international journals and is the recipient of the Mayer Prize (best paper in the Australian Journal of Political Science) and the Lasswell Prize (best paper in Policy Sciences). He has authored two books, won three large-scale Australian Research Council Discovery grants and is always looking for outstanding students who may be interested in completing PhDs in relation to the topics outlined above.

Professor A J Brown is leader of the Centre for Governance & Public Policy’s public integrity and anti-corruption research program, and professor of public policy and law in the School of Government & International Relations.

A 25-year veteran of developments in Australia’s integrity systems, since 2010 he has been a boardmember of Transparency International Australia, the world anti-corruption organisation, and in 2017 and again in 2020 was elected to Transparency International's global board, where he led the development of its worldwide strategy 'Holding Power to Account, 2021-2030'.

Since 2005 he has led six Australian Research Council projects into public integrity and governance reform, including two establishing the Australian Constitutional Values Survey, three into public interest whistleblowing, and the 2020 Australian Research Council Linkage Project report, 'Australia's National Integrity System: The Blueprint for Reform'.

In 2012, his biography Michael Kirby: Paradoxes & Principles was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Walkley Book Award and National Biography Award. He was the 2017-18 President of the Australian Political Studies Association, and a member of the Commonwealth Ministerial Expert Advisory Panel on Whistleblower Protection (2017-2019). He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

Julie-Ann Campbell became Queensland Labor’s State Secretary in 2018, having been the Vice President of Queensland Labor. She is the first woman State Secretary.

Prior to entering party office, Julie-Ann worked as a Policy Advisor for State Government and was a Community and Campaigns Officer for the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union.

Julie-Ann graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws and was admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2012.

Theodora is a current member of McKinsey Online Executive Panel, Managing Director of Canaria Technologies and a past Brisbane City Chair of the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal.

Theodora is having an independent career working with government, industry such as infrastructure, education, and health and sectors such as the arts and sport.

Theodora directed and managed a strong team of dedicated event and specifier specialist as CEO of Architectural Information Services (AIS), and most recently just finished as Managing Director of Building On Air.

Her experience and inclusion is focused on execution. To this extent, Theodora has been a significant contributor to the Queensland Writers Centre. As a former director and chair, she led the property strategy which moved the organisation as well as satellite writing Organisations to Queensland State Library.

Theodora received the Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbAF) KPMG Advicebank Award for her strategic advisory on QWC's digital strategy and subsequently went on to win the National AbAF KPMG Advicebank Award, the first time for a Queensland based partnership.

She was a director of Women in Technology (WiT), and as part of a team revitalised the Board Readiness™ program which won an International best practice award led by Cambridge University.

Theodora was also selected as a speaker at the Women in Leadership Summit and co-chaired the Women in Engineering Summit as well as being one of the first organisations selected for the inaugural ARC Business of Innovation Science and Business Match Up.

And, as part of the Women in Cricket Committee, looked deeply at strategies to develop the game for women. As a testament women's cricket is the strongest it's been thanks to the hard work of Queensland Cricket and Cricket Australia.

As an award winning strategist, advisor and non-executive director, Theodora has a strong sense for inclusion and collaboration.