The Sydney team
Dr Suzanne Rickard - State Director, NSW and ACT
Dr Suzanne Rickard is the head of CEDA's NSW and ACT operations. She is also responsible for membership and business development activities in NSW and the ACT.
Dr Rickard has more than 20 years' experience in public policy research and management. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the ANU's Institute of Advanced Studies, was awarded the C H Currey Memorial Fellowship at the State Library of NSW in 2000-2001, and is a former member of the Council of the University of Canberra.
Dr Rickard has worked as a principal researcher for Senate committees, analysing issues such as the privatisation of Australia's telecommunications sector, corporate governance in the public and private sector, accountability and improved annual reporting, and IT outsourcing policy. Earlier in her career, she gained extensive experience in professional business administration in the private sector.
Dr Rickard came to CEDA from the ABC's Strategy and Communications Division, where she was a key member of the Government and Parliamentary Relations team.
She has a first class honours degree and a PhD from the Australian National University.
Lee Kelly - Associate Director, NSW and ACT
Simone MacKenzie - Events Coordinator
Anne O'Neill - Administration Coordinator
Craig Purcell - Membership Advisor
Petra Schweidler - Conference producer
Sarah Shores - Events Coordinator
Contact CEDA Sydney
Level 14, The John Hunter Building, 9 Hunter Street
Sydney 2000 NSW
GPO Box 2100
Sydney 2001 NSW
Telephone 02 9299 7022
Fax 02 9232 7559
Email the Sydney team
Coming events
The Rudd Government - Problems and Prospects
[Trustee event]
New South Wales, Hosed by Booz & Co.
Monday, 24 November, 12.00pm to 2.00pm
Speaker: Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large, The Australian
Dean Williams, Lecturer in Public Policy, Centre for Public Leadership, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government
[Trustee event]
New South Wales, Hosted by NAB Capital
Wednesday, 26 November, 12.00pm to 2.00pm
Glen Boreham, Managing Director, IBM Australia and New Zealand 'Changing role of enterprise in the 21st century - Developing a new, sustainable economy based on a renewable resource: innovation' (CEO Vision Series Part IV)
New South Wales, Hilton Hotel, Sydney
Thursday, 27 November, 12pm - 2pm
Australia's Broadband Future
New South Wales, Shangri-La Hotel Sydney
Wednesday, 3 December, 11:45am - 2:30pm
Urban congestion - Modernising transport networks
New South Wales, Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney
Thursday, 4 December, 12pm - 2pm
Speakers include Professor David Hensher, Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, and Darren Moy, General Manager NSW Assets, Transurban