Dr Hugh Breakey
President
Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law, Griffith University
Hugh is a Senior Research Fellow in moral philosophy at Griffith University’s Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law. He has extensive experience in the application of ethical, legal and political philosophy to challenging practical fields, including peacekeeping, safety industries, institutional governance, integrity systems and corruption, climate change, sustainable tourism, resource and common property, professional ethics and international law. As well as his academic contributions, with more than fifty research publications, Hugh has consulted for several Australian government agencies, including ASIC, FASEA and the Professional Standards Councils.
Dr Alan Tapper
Vice President
John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, 鶹ֱ
Alan taught philosophy in Perth for about 20 years, mainly at Edith Cowan University, and has worked as a public policy researcher at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, 鶹ֱ, for about 10 years. His interests include social policy, philosophy in schools, moral philosophy, professional ethics, and 18th century intellectual history. His recent work has been on the Golden Rule and on social practices.
Dr Ian Gibson
Secretary
Victorian Government General Counsel, Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office
Ian has worked as a lawyer in the Victorian public service for the past thirty years, for twenty of those as head of the in-house legal service of the state’s Treasury Department. In Amnesty International, he has held elected (volunteer) roles nationally and internationally during the same period, including four years on the International Executive Committee. In the Anglican Church, he is Advocate of the Diocese of Melbourne and a member of the Standing Committee on the General Synod and of its Executive Committee. His postgraduate qualifications are in law, professional ethics, and organisation dynamics.
Dr Charmayne Highfield
Treasurer and Newsletter Editor
Enya-Lea Pte. Ltd
Charmayne is a Chartered Accountant and received her PhD from Charles Sturt University in 2013 for investigating fairness in the workplace for Australian accountants. She began her accounting career in public practice before moving into management within the private health administration sector in 1994, and later lecturing in accounting and management at universities in Australia and Singapore. In addition to promoting excellence in accounting education, her current research interests include ethics education, human capital, organisation value creation and the future economy.
Dr Bligh Grant
Committee Member & Public Officer
University of Technology Sydney & Clarence Valley Council, NSW
Bligh is Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney, and Governance Officer at Clarence Valley Council, NSW. Much of Bligh’s work brings expertise in applied ethics, politics and political economy to public policy and professional practice. He enjoys the challenge of governance in a professional setting after teaching a range of social science disciplines over many years. Bligh has held positions as Associate Professor at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney, Lecturer in Business Ethics and Lecturer in Local Government at the UNE Business School, University of New England and Associate Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Southern Queensland.
Dr Joseph Naimo
Committee Member
Researcher in Philosophy and Professional Ethics, Activist and Advocate for Disability and Mental Health
Joseph recently retired after seventeen years of service as a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Postgraduate Ethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Joseph now devotes his time in the service of both the disability and mental health sectors engaging, consulting, and advocating for change to address misguided abuse and neglect among other questionable practices occurring within these sectors. As a father of a young man living with autism, Joseph brings much experience and passion to the table to address broad scale systemic issues plaguing these sectors.
Dr Leila Toiviainen
Committee Member
School of Humanities, University of Tasmania
Leila was born and went to school in Finland. She did her nursing and midwifery training in England, and then worked as a registered nurse in England, New Zealand and Australia. She did her philosophy degree, including a doctorate in philosophy, at the University of Tasmania, her dissertation was on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. She has taught philosophy and applied ethics at the University of Tasmania for twenty years and is currently an Adjunct Researcher in Philosophy, with her main focus as a philosophy supervisor of doctoral dissertations.
A/Prof Michael Schwartz
Committee Member
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Michael is a recently retired Associate Professor of business ethics in the School of Economics, Finance & Marketing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is a past president of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. He is a joint editor of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations. His research has been published in Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing, Electronic Journal of Business Ethics & Organization Studies, Australian Journal of Professional & Applied Ethics, Journal of Military Ethics, Australian Journal of Social Issues, Ethics & Education, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business Ethics: A European Review, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Business Ethics, Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Business and Society Review, Journal of Beliefs & Values and Business & Professional Ethics Journal. He continues to wonder if morality is possible.
Dr Jacqueline Boaks
Committee member
Ethics and Sustainability sub-discipline, School of Management and Marketing, 鶹ֱ
Jacqueline is researcher and lecturer in ethics and leadership, and is a founding faculty member in the Ethics and Sustainability sub-discipline at 鶹ֱ’s School of Management and Marketing. She is also a member of 鶹ֱ’s ‘Sustainability in Business and Law (PRME)’ working group. Jacqueline has experience teaching ethics to medical students, principles of responsible management and ethics to business students at the UWA School of Business, leadership and ethics to MBA and business students at 鶹ֱ and to high school students as part of the University of Western Australia’s high school outreach program. She has previously worked in the private sector in telecommunications, member based organisations, and consulting work.
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