Chair,
CareSuper

Linda serves as the Chair of CareSuper and is a member-representative director nominated by Unions NSW.

An experienced chair and board director, Linda is chair and commissioner of the NSW Local Government Grants Commission and is also a member of the director nomination committee of IFM Investors. She is also a chair of the Alcohol and Drug Foundation (ADF), Australia’s leading organisation committed to preventing and minimising the harm caused by alcohol and other drugs, a director of the Powerhouse; the largest museum group in Australia; and a director of Industry Innovation and Science Australia (IISA).

Linda formerly served as the elected president of the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA), attending National Cabinet and a wide variety of ministerial councils, alongside the Prime Minister, Premiers and Chief Ministers, and a range of State and Territory Ministers. She was the first woman elected as president of Local Government NSW. Collectively, in these leadership roles she secured more than $25 billion for Australia’s 537 local governments. She has served as the City of Sydney’s Deputy Lord Mayor and a councillor, and on a range of other boards and taskforces, including the Commonwealth Government’s Regional Banking Taskforce, CSIRO’s External Advisory Group on Ending Plastic Waste and the NSW Environmental Trust.

She brings an in-depth knowledge of culture, governance, strategy, ESG and advocacy. Linda holds a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) (Hons 1), is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is also a Justice of the Peace.