PWSS Advisory Board Membership
Ms Carmel McGregor
Ms McGregor was appointed as the Chair of the PWSS Advisory Board on 15 April 2024 for a five-year term. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra and a private consultant working with a range of Governments across Australia. Prior to her retirement from the Australian Public Service Ms McGregor held Deputy Secretary roles in a number of Departments – Defence, Australian Public Service Commission and Immigration and Citizenship.
Ms McGregor has held senior roles in Centrelink, Employment and Education at the Federal level. She has also worked internationally at the OECD Public Governance Directorate and was vice chair of the Public Governance Committee from 2008-2012.
Ms McGregor served as a Non-Executive Director on the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) Board from2014-2024 and has been acknowledged as a Life Member of the Institute. In 2012 Ms McGregor was awarded the Public Service Medal in the Australia Day Honours List. She was also the inaugural Public Policy Winner in the AFR/Westpac 100 Women of Influence 2012. She was acknowledged for Exceptional Leadership 2013 by the Institute of Chartered Accountants and received the ANZSOG Public Service Excellence Award. She is a National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) and served as vice President of IPAA ACT from 2009 to 2019.
Ms McGregor works as a coach and mentor.
The Hon. Andrew Greenwood
The Honourable Andrew Greenwood is a former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia who now accepts appointments as arbitrator and legal expert. He is a Fellow of The Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and Fellow of the Resolution Institute of Australia.
He was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia on the 4th of August 2005 and retired from the Court at the end of July 2022. He was also President of the Copyright Tribunal of Australia, a Presidential Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Deputy President of The Australian Competition Tribunal. He is an adjunct professor in the University of Queensland School of Law. Over 17 years, his Honour delivered over 900 judgements in both the original and appellate jurisdictions of the Court in all of the Courts national practice areas.
As an indication of his diversity of interests, the Honourable Andrew Greenwood was requested by professor Anthony Zee, the Head of The Institute of Theoretical Physics at UCLA, to review Professor Zee’s draft manuscript on quantum field theory and his contribution is recognised in the published edition of the work.
Ms Tanya Hosch
Ms Hosch was appointed as a member of the PWSS Advisory Board on 15 April 2024 for a three-year term. Ms Hosch is the Executive General Manager Inclusion and Social Policy at the Australian Football League (AFL). Ms Hosch has a long and distinguished history in Australian Indigenous policy, advocacy, and governance and is an accomplished public speaker. Before joining the AFL, as the first indigenous person and second woman in its executive ranks in August 2016, Ms Hosch was the joint campaign director of the Recognise Movement for Constitutional Recognition. At the AFL, Ms Hosch’s portfolios include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues, gender equality, sexuality and gender diversity, culturally diverse inclusion, racism, and sexism. She is tasked with advising the AFL National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Council, the maintenance of the Respect and Responsibility Policy 2017, and the AFL’s Gender Diversity Policy.
Ms Hosch is a Co-Chair of the Indigenous Advisory Group of the National Australia Bank and is a Board Director the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. She is also a Council Member of the Australian National University and was a member of the Referendum Council that led the process and final recommendation that resulted in The Uluru Statement of the Heart in May 2017. A career highlight was contributing as a consultant on the ABC drama 'Total Control'. In October 2020, Ms Hosch was announced as the South Australian of the Year for 2021. In December 2022, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Flinders University.
Ms Liz Dowd
Ms Dowd was appointed as a member of the PWSS Advisory Board on 15 April 2024 for a three-year term. Ms Dowd has worked for three Federal Government Cabinet Ministers including two as Chief of Staff, providing complex policy and political advice on the Members of Parliament staff employment framework and parliamentary business resources, education, vocational training, emergency services and other social services. She has also been a senior public servant who has worked across a number of social service portfolios including employment, education and health for over 20 years.
She has a strong understanding of parliamentary and government processes, ministerial functions, stakeholder engagement and policy development and is now using this to help community organisations form good relationships with government and effectively navigate the political environment.