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The Audit and Risk Management Committee is established by the University Council in accordance with section 17 of the University of Canberra Act 1989 (ACT).

The Committee will provide independent assurance and advice to the Council on the University’s control environment including audit, risk, compliance and governance. The Committee will, jointly, with the Finance Committee, oversee the financial reporting requirements of the Institution.

View Audit and Risk Management Committee Charter (PDF)

View Standing Orders for Meetings of the University Council and its committees (PDF)

View 2024 Governance Meeting Schedule for Council and its Committees (PDF)

Committee members

Ms Alice Tay

Chair

Alice Tay is a commercial lawyer with 30 years’ experience in the establishment of entities, intellectual property, capital raising, acquisitions and sales, contracting and governance. She retired in 2018 as a partner at Meyer Vandenberg and is now focussed on utilising her experience to build healthy, vibrant, innovative and strong communities through her non-executive board and committee appointments. The University of Canberra has a particular interest as it is the university established for Canberra. As an overseas student and migrant who settled and prospered in Canberra, her appointment to the Council is an opportunity to contribute back to the community. Education and research are the foundation to a fulfilled and successful community.

Alice has a strong background in audit and risk at a board level and has chaired a number of A&R committees. She is a graduate of the AICD and a Fellow of the Governance Institute.

Alice’s other current Board and Committee positions include:

Gambling and Racing Commission ACT - Deputy Chair and Chair, Audit and Risk Committee
National Heart Foundation – Director, Chair, Risk, Audit and Governance Committee, Member, National Board Executive Group and Member, Investment Committee
Master Builders Association ACT - Member, Finance, Audit and Risk Committee
The Fly Program – Director (a health promotion charity start-up with a unique early and post clinical intervention program using nature and recreational fly-fishing as a tool for mental fitness)
Project Independence - Member, Finance, Audit and Risk Committee (a social housing initiative aimed at providing home ownership for Australians with an intellectual disability)
Community Housing Canberra Ltd, Director, Member of Risk and Audit Committee
Diversification and Sustainability Support Fund (ACT Government), Member

Prof Benedict Sheehy

Dr Benedict Sheehy, FAAL, is a Professor of Law and former Head of Canberra Law School at the University of Canberra, Australia. Professor Sheehy was educated in Canada and Australia and holds the following degrees: BTh, MA, JD, MA, LLM and PhD. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

He has worked as a corporate and commercial lawyer, a corporate executive, and an academic in Canada, Mexico and Australia. In Australia, he has held positions at the University of Newcastle and RMIT University in Melbourne prior to coming to the University of Canberra. Throughout his academic career, he has been involved in governance at various levels and made significant, lasting contributions to these institutions in his governance roles.

As an academic, Professor Sheehy is an internationally recognized law scholar. He is highly cited and has published over 100 scholarly articles. His work appears in leading journals around the globe in the disciplines of law, business and economics.

Professor Sheehy has been on the University Council since 2022 as an elected member of the academic staff of the university. In this position, his role is to ensure that the academic voice is heard. As a person committed to the university as a global institution as well as the University of Canberra, Professor Sheehy aims to ensure that the university offers the best it can offer to students, staff and the community at large. He believes that frank, respectful, well-informed discussion that includes a range of views, provides the best chance of good decisions for the organization.

His academic work is readily available on Google Scholar and his professional profile is available via LinkedIn.

Ms Anne-Marie Lansdown

Anne-Marie Lansdown is an experienced executive who has worked in government in the education and research sectors nationally and internationally. As a senior executive in the Education, Industry and Communications departments she developed a deep understanding of higher education and research policy. In the international space, she worked on multiple bilateral science and technology agreements, OECD committees, and UN summits.

Anne-Marie was one of the architects of Australia’s national research infrastructure program, NCRIS, developing three of the national NCRIS roadmaps. These were augmented by the Education Investment Fund and the Super Science funding. The NCRIS is a highly collaborative and distinctively Australian program which maximises Australia’s research infrastructure investments by coordinating open access, targeted specialities, and co-funding across the country.

Over her period in government, she worked with five of the past six Chief Scientists, most recently as Chief of Staff to former Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel.

As Deputy Chief Executive at Universities Australia over seven years, she was responsible for managing the higher education policy agenda for the advocacy group.

She currently sits on the boards of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Cooperative Research Australia (CRA) and the Australian National Imaging Facility (ANIF). As Chair of the Marine National Facility (MNF), she is able to follow the powerful science being generated by Australia’s marine researchers. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

As a lifelong Canberran, she has followed the progress of the University of Canberra over the decades. The university’s important focus on the Canberra community and support for the development of our professional workforce is a source of pride. She is honoured to be part of the University of Canberra enterprise.

Prof Elisa Martinez-Marroquin

Professor Elisa Martinez-Marroquin holds a B.Eng., M.Eng, and Ph.D. in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering. She has developed her academic career internationally for over 20 years, with academic positions in Europe, Singapore, and Australia, ranging from Director of Technology Transfer, Senior Research Fellow, Head of Discipline and Associate Dean Education to Executive Dean. She is currently a Professor of Engineering at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Chair of the Academic Board, and member of Council at the University of Canberra.

As acting Dean of the Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics (ESTEM), Elisa provided academic leadership, was responsible for financial management, partnerships, quality assurance and faculty performance, and led the split into two new Faculties, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Science and Technology. Elisa led the establishment of the Faculty of Science and Technology as interim Executive Dean, responsible for strategic direction, budgeting, workforce planning, quality assurance, financial management and setting up the governance and organisational structure for the first year of operations. Externally, Elisa has engaged in numerous committees, panels and boards, among which the Australian Council of Engineering Deans, the Association for Tertiary Education Management, the Australian Council of Deans of ICT, and the Australian Mathematics Trust as non-executive Director.

Adrian Harrington

External Independent Member

Annabelle Pegrum

External Independent Member

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For all enquiries, please contact the Council Secretariat.

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Audit and Risk Management Committee

Committee members

Ms Alice Tay

Prof Benedict Sheehy

Ms Anne-Marie Lansdown

Prof Elisa Martinez-Marroquin

Adrian Harrington

Annabelle Pegrum

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