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Richard Mackay is the Director of Possibilities at Mackay Strategic Pty Ltd, ICOMOS World Heritage Adviser, Member of the National Executive Committee of Australia ICOMOS, Adjunct Professor in the Archaeology Program at La Trobe University, and Commissioner of the NSW Independent Planning Commission. With more than 30 years’ experience in cultural heritage practice, Richard was co-founder and Partner at GML Heritage Pty Ltd, and has provided facilitation and strategic direction for heritage projects and place management throughout Australia and in Asia, working for government and non-government agencies and corporations at places ranging from Angkor, Cambodia to Sydney’s Luna Park. Richard has formerly served as Chair of the Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee, Chair of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area Advisory Committee, heritage theme author for the 2011 and 2016 Commonwealth State of the Environment reports, non-Executive Director of the National Trust of Australia (NSW), Member of the NSW Heritage Council, inaugural Chair of the NSW State Heritage Register Committee, and Getty Conservation Scholar. Richard had been honoured with the inaugural ‘Sharon Sullivan Award’ for his contribution to Australia’s national heritage, a National Trust voluntary service medallion and Membership of the Order of Australia for services to archaeology and cultural heritage. Richard was the Chair of the Bid Committee for the successful Australia ICOMOS bid to host GA 2020.

Jennifer Carter has been engaged in heritage conservation policy and practice for 30 years, in Australia, New Zealand, Italy and the UK. Her expertise lies in balancing best practice conservation management with public engagement in natural and cultural heritage.

Currently Director of Historic Heritage in the Australian Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Energy, she provides strategic direction and policy advice for historic heritage matters nationally, including on effective management of the cultural heritage values of World, National and Commonwealth heritage listed places.

Jennifer led the development of Australia’s first Heritage Strategy published in 2015 and the delivery of Australia’s Underwater Cultural Heritage legislation in 2019; Jennifer’s current focus is on strengthening the recognition, understanding and engagement of Australians with their historic and Indigenous cultural heritage.

Peter Phillips is the Secretary General of ICOMOS. He was previously a Vice-President of ICOMOS, and is also a past President of Australia ICOMOS. In his spare time he is the principal of Orwell & Peter Phillips, an architectural practice that has been active in building conservation since the 1950s. Peter has degrees in architecture and building science from the University of Sydney, and lectures on conservation and heritage to post-graduate students in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney. He has undertaken conservation work on some of Australia’s most significant sites, including Fort Denison, the Australian Museum and Sydney Customs House, as well as several properties in The Rocks and Millers Point and a number of historic railway stations. He has served as a heritage adviser to government at local, State and Commonwealth levels. In 2011 Peter was made a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects for his contribution to architectural conservation.

Tony Smith, B.Arch (UTS) is the Urban Design and Heritage Manager in the Planning Assessments Unit at the City of Sydney.
He grew up in the historic city of Parramatta in NSW and lives in Sydney. Tony is an architect and has worked in heritage conservation in Sydney architectural practices including Howard Tanner & Associates (now TKD), Clive Lucas, Stapleton & Partners and Suters Architects. He has worked on heritage places including Sydney GPO, Sydney Town Hall, Rookwood Necropolis and Walsh Bay.

Tony has worked at the City of Sydney since 2002 and manages a multi-disciplinary team that advises the planning team and other stakeholders on heritage, urban design and landscape design. He is also responsible for the City’s comprehensive physical and electronic models. Travelling to learn from ICOMOS world heritage sites is a particular passion and recent trips have included Borobudur, Havana, Tallinn and Kronborg Castle at Helsingør.

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Michelle Bashta is the ICOMOS emerging professional representative on the Sydney GA Organising Committee. Michelle has been working at Lovell Chen Architects and Heritage Consultants, based in Melbourne, since October 2015 and was appointed as an Associate in 2018. In her role at Lovell Chen Michelle undertakes historic research, heritage assessments, policy analysis and client liaison. She has worked on a number of major heritage buildings include Flinders Street Station, the Melbourne GPO and Queen Victoria Market.

Michelle is heavily involved with emerging professionals in the heritage field, including co-founding an organisation for Emerging Heritage Professional in Victoria (EHP Vic). In this role she has organised a number of events including the Unsettling Heritage Symposium in September 2018. This symposium provided a platform for young and emerging practitioners and researchers to present papers in a supportive and open environment.

Michelle is also the graduate member on the Deakin university Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies Course Advisory Board, a member of the Built Heritage Committee of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and a member of the Employment and Professional Development Committee of the Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas).

Anne Warr is a Registered Architect with post-graduate qualifications in Heritage Conservation from the University of York, UK, and a recently completed PhD from UNSW. For twenty years Anne worked for the NSW Government Architect’s Office, with ten of these years as Manager of the Heritage Group. From 2000 to 2002, Anne was Heritage Manager at the City of Sydney before moving to Shanghai, China, where she lived for 7 years. During this time Anne ran the China office of AJ+C Architects, taught Western Architecture at Tongji University, wrote an Architectural Guide to Shanghai (pub 2007 by Watermark Press) and started a tour guiding business, walkshanghai. Anne currently works as Director of Anne Warr Heritage Consulting (annewarr.com.au) from her office at Millers Point, NSW, where she undertakes heritage consultancy work, and heritage advocacy in her roles as Vice-President of SFAUDI (Sydney Forum for Architecture and Urban Design), committee member of SOS (Save our Sirius), and member of the Millers Point RAG (Resident Action Group).

Jane Holden is the Director of Heritage Strategy in the Office of Environment and Heritage. Jane has primary responsibility for developing and implementing policy and strategic advice on heritage including Aboriginal cultural heritage and historic heritage.  Jane oversees the heritage grants program, the Heritage Near Me program, the secretariat for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee (ACHAC) and the Heritage Council, the ACH strategy team, the heritage strategy team, and communications and engagement. Jane is a very experienced public servant and lawyer with a career spanning government and the private sector. Jane’s expertise includes policy, law, strategy, governance and operations across national parks, environment, climate change and heritage. In OEH, Jane has held roles including Principal Legal Officer, Director Climate Change Air and Noise, Director Ministerial Services Branch and Director Policy. Jane holds a Bachelor of Science, a Bachelor of Law and a Masters of Law

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Richard Mackay is the Director of Possibilities at Mackay Strategic Pty Ltd, ICOMOS World Heritage Adviser, Member of the National Executive Committee of Australia ICOMOS, Adjunct Professor in the Archaeology Program at La Trobe University, and Commissioner of the NSW Independent Planning Commission. With more than 30 years’ experience in cultural heritage practice, Richard was co-founder and Partner at GML Heritage Pty Ltd, and has provided facilitation and strategic direction for heritage projects and place management throughout Australia and in Asia, working for government and non-government agencies and corporations at places ranging from Angkor, Cambodia to Sydney’s Luna Park. Richard has formerly served as Chair of the Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee, Chair of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area Advisory Committee, heritage theme author for the 2011 and 2016 Commonwealth State of the Environment reports, non-Executive Director of the National Trust of Australia (NSW), Member of the NSW Heritage Council, inaugural Chair of the NSW State Heritage Register Committee, and Getty Conservation Scholar. Richard had been honoured with the inaugural ‘Sharon Sullivan Award’ for his contribution to Australia’s national heritage, a National Trust voluntary service medallion and Membership of the Order of Australia for services to archaeology and cultural heritage. Richard was the Chair of the Bid Committee for the successful Australia ICOMOS bid to host GA 2020.

Dr Caroline Butler‐Bowdon is the Director, Strategy & Engagement at Sydney Living Museums. Spanning 20 years her career has been dedicated to cultural leadership that connects diverse audiences to history, arts and heritage through a broad range of public engagement programs, including festivals, exhibitions and books.

At SLM, she uses her vision, experience and expertise to lead the cross-platform programming in the fields of interpretation, exhibitions, regional touring program, public programs, education, web + digital, volunteering, and publications for the portfolio’s 12 museums and historic houses. She also leads the work of SLM’s City and House Museums Portfolios. She is the winner of multiple awards for the books, curatorial and creative history projects she has written, produced, and led, that share the stories of urban life, architecture and design across the centuries.

She completed the Museum Leadership Institute Program in 2012 at The Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University, California and her PhD on the history of apartment living in Sydney at the University of New South Wales in 2009 and she is a 2017 Churchill Fellowship recipient.

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Julian is an Associate and built heritage expert at GML Heritage. Julian also sits on the Chinese Garden of Friendship Advisory Committee for Property NSW and on Australia ICOMOS’ National Executive Committee. At GML, he works on a diverse portfolio of development, urban regeneration and conservation projects. He seeks opportunities to promote the heritage of a place in the context of change for major infrastructure, and the residential, transport, educational and healthcare sectors. He is a positive and energetic young leader, who has a passion for engaging with emerging professionals and inter-generational knowledge and skills sharing.

Ian was a lecturer in architectural history, urban design and building conservation at the School of Architecture, Planning and Building, Curtin University, Perth (1985-93); He then worked as a Senior Heritage Officer at the newly established Heritage Council of Western Australia (1993-97).

Moving from Perth (WA) to Sydney (NSW) Ian took up the position of Principal Heritage Officer at the NSW Heritage Office (1997-2001). Later, Ian moved to the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (SHFA) where he was progressively the Planning, Heritage and Urban Design Manager (2001-08); Director Darling Harbour (2009-11) and, finally, Director The Rocks and Circular Quay (2011-12). (The latter two positions having a focus on heritage and tourism precinct management.)

Since 2013 Ian has been a freelance heritage consultant, providing heritage advice to local government, educational colleges and private owners. He has also lectured on the preparation of Conservation Management Plans at the University of Sydney.

Steve Brown is an honorary associate with the Museum and Heritage Studies Program at the University of Sydney and a casual academic at the University of Canberra. My research interests include: the integration of ‘naturecultures’ in the heritage management; the heritage of landscapes with the imprint of Indigenous and colonial settler intra-action; applied approaches to cultural landscapes, with particular reference to protected areas; conceptualising and operationalising place-attachment in heritage theory and practice; and the material culture of domestic homes and gardens.

Steve is the author of Cultural Landscapes: A Practical Guide for Park Management (2010) and co-editor of Object Stories: Artifacts and Archaeologists (2015), Cultural and Spiritual Significance of Nature in Protected Areas: Governance, Management and Policy (2018), and a forthcoming Routledge volume—Handbook on Cultural Landscapes. He a member of Australia ICOMOS and the immediate past-president of the ICOMOS/IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (2014-2017). He is also a member of the IUCN-WCPA Specialist Group on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas and Specialist Group on Protected Landscapes.

For Steve, conferences and symposia are exciting opportunities to network with like-minded colleagues; to share learning from different knowledge, disciplinary, cultural and experiential perspectives; and to experience local, host nation culture and heritage. The value of such opportunities is inherently influenced by the structure, inclusivity and content of each symposium as a whole, each symposia stream and each session. In his view they should maximise opportunities for participation by all attendees, genuinely engage with the theme and place of the symposium, and offer a diversity of formats (indoor-outdoor; panel discussions; round-table dialogues; opportunities for creative performance; as well as paper presentation sessions – and not be limited to the latter). Steve is excited to be working with the GA2020 team and all GA2020 Scientific Symposium participants to create an intellectually and social stimulating, diverse and memorable conference event.

Anne Warr is a Registered Architect with post-graduate qualifications in Heritage Conservation from the University of York, UK, and a recently completed PhD from UNSW. For twenty years Anne worked for the NSW Government Architect’s Office, with ten of these years as Manager of the Heritage Group. From 2000 to 2002, Anne was Heritage Manager at the City of Sydney before moving to Shanghai, China, where she lived for 7 years. During this time Anne ran the China office of AJ+C Architects, taught Western Architecture at Tongji University, wrote an Architectural Guide to Shanghai (pub 2007 by Watermark Press) and started a tour guiding business, walkshanghai. Anne currently works as Director of Anne Warr Heritage Consulting (annewarr.com.au) from her office at Millers Point, NSW, where she undertakes heritage consultancy work, and heritage advocacy in her roles as Vice-President of SFAUDI (Sydney Forum for Architecture and Urban Design), committee member of SOS (Save our Sirius), and member of the Millers Point RAG (Resident Action Group).