Committees

ICWES 15 Organising Committee

  • Dr Marlene Kanga, Director iOmniscient Pty. Ltd and BT Risk Services (Co-chair Organising Committee)
  • Ms Ha Do, Engineer, ASC Pty Ltd (Co-chair Organising Committee)
  • Dr Rebecca Gravina, Senior Lecturer, Civil Engineering RMIT (Co-chair Technical Program)
  • Prof. Julie Mills, A/Prof & Program Director, Civil Engineering, University of South Australia (Co-chair Technical Program)
  • Ms Gaye Francis, Director, R2A Pty Ltd (Treasurer)
  • Ms Caroline Argent, Division Director, Engineers Australia SA
  • Ms Vera Lukic, City of Mitcham
  • Ms Catriona McAuliffe, Conference Manager, Engineers Australia
  • Dr Emma Parkinson-Lawrence, Lecturer in Life Science, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, UniSA
  • Dr Sally Plush, Lecturer in Chemistry,School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, UniSA
  • Dr Tara Pukala, Chemistry Lecturer, School of Chemistry & Physics, University of Adelaide
  • A/Prof Ann Roberts, Deputy Head of School of Physics, The University of Melbourne
  • Ms. Michelle Shi-Verdaasdonk, Women in Engineering National Committee Chair (Sponsorship Coordinator)

ICWES 15 Technical Program Committee

  • Rebecca Gravina, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Co-Chair)
  • Julie Mills, University of South Australia (Co-Chair)
  • Gunilla Burrowes, University of Newcastle
  • Margaret Jollands, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  • Sally Male, University of Western Australia
  • Melissa Marinelli, Curtin University of Technology
  • Emma Parkinson-Lawrence, University of South Australia
  • Sally Plush, University of South Australia
  • Tara Pukala, University of Adelaide
  • Pam Roberts, Australian National University
  • Elizabeth Smith, University of South Australia
  • Delene Weber, University of South Australia

ICWES15 Executive Committee

  • Dr Monique Frize, Immediate Past President, INWES
  • Ms Sue Bird, President, INWES
  • Mr Martin Dwyer, Director Engineering Practices, Engineers Australia
  • Dr Marlene Kanga, Immediate Past Chair National Women in Engineering Committee, Engineers Australia

ICWES15 Advisory Committee

  • Hon Trish White, Former Member for Taylor (Chair)
  • Prof. Martin Lambert, School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide
  • Prof. Tanya Monro, Director of the Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) and Director of the Centre of Expertise in Photonics within the School of Chemistry & Physics (CoEP), University of Adelaide

ICWES 15 International Program Advisory group

  • Eng. Miss Bashayer Al-Awwad, Kuwait Society of Engineers
  • Ms Lina Sergie Atassi, Syrian Computer Society, President Syrian Women in Science & Technology
  • Prof Caroline Baillie, University of Western Australia
  • Prof. Suzelle Barrington, McGill University Canada
  • Ass Prof Carol Burger, Coordinator, Science and Gender Equity Program, Virginia Polytechnic
  • Dr Andrew Cleland, IPENZ New Zealand
  • Yolanda S. George, Deputy Director and Program Director of the American Association for Advancement of Science Education Programs
  • Prof Nadia Ghazzali, Industrial Alliance Chair for the Advancement of Women in Science and Engineering, Quebec, Canada
  • Prof Judith Glover, Professor of Employment Studies in the School of Business and Social Sciences, Roehampton University, UK
  • Ir Helen Kwan, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
  • Dr Di McCarthy, Chief Executive, the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Prof Caroline McMillen, Pro Vice Chancellor Research, University of South Australia
  • Engr (Mrs) Joanna Maduka, Nigerian Society of Engineers, President APWEN (Nigerian Women Engineers)
  • Dr Anthony Marjoram, Programme Specialist, Division of Basic and Engineering Sciences, UNESCO
  • Ms Gail Mattson, Past President Society of Women Engineers, USA
  • Dr Byung Joo Min, President Korean Society of Women Scientists and Engineers
  • Profa Dra Iracema de Oliveira Moraes, Brazil Society of Women Engineers, Gharulhos University
  • Dr Peggy Oti-boating Kwame, Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana
  • Ms Yvette Ramos, Conseil National des Ingenieurs et Scientifiques de France, former President, French Association of Women Engineers
  • Prof Judy Raper, University of Wollongong/National Science Foundation USA
  • Prof Sue Rosser, Professor and Dean of the Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech USA
  • Dr Huang Ru, China Association for Science & Technology, Peking University
  • Prof Anna Szemik-Hojniak, University of Wroclaw, Poland
  • Prof Elizabeth Taylor, Central Queensland University, Australia
  • Ms Marie-Helene Therre, Chair WFEO Women in Engineering Standing Committee, France
  • Dr Julita Vassilova, Chair on women in Science and Engineering, Prairie region, Canada
  • Ms Sangeeta Wij, Consulting Engineers Association, India
  • Dr Cathy Foley, CSIRO, Australia
  • Kathryn Fagg - President, FCMG, Linfox Logistics, Australia

INWES Board

The INWES Board of Directors is made up of twelve Directors representing organisations, three representing corporate members and three individual members.

  • Sue Bird, President, Women's Engineering Society (WES)
  • Monique Frize, Pathmaker's Program Ottawa, Canada
  • Yolanda S. George, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA
  • Nadia Ghazzali, NSERC-Industrial Alliance Chair for Women in Science and Engineering in Quebec, Canada
  • Issié Yvonne Gueye, Cercle ivoirien des femmes ingénieurs, scientifiques et architectes et techniciennes supérieures, Ivory Coast
  • Durdana Habib, Women Engineers, Scientists and Technologists in Pakistan, Pakistan
  • Maki Iwakuma, Japan
  • Ass Prof Kong-Joo Lee, President Elect INWES, Past President, Korean Association of Women Scientists and Engineers (KWSE), South Korea
  • Gail Mattson, Society of Women Engineers (SWE), USA
  • Petra Mayerhofer, deutscher ingenieurinnenbund e. V. (dib), Germany
  • Monique Moutaud, France
  • Francisca Nneka Okéké, Nigeria
  • Yvette Ramos-Aivazian, Association Française des Femmes Ingénieurs (FI), France
  • Anna Szemik-Hojniak, University of Wroclaw, Poland
  • Unesu Ushewokunze-Obatolu, WOTSAI, Zimbabwe
  • Pamela Wain, UK