Meet the Board of Teach For Australia
Rufus Black
Chairperson
Associate Professor Rufus Black is the Master of Ormond College and a Principal Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and a Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Business School. An ethicist, strategic advisor and theologian, he writes and works on ethical, public policy and education issues. His work on ethics includes teaching for the Melbourne Business School’s Centre for Ethical Leadership and chairing the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute’s Human Research Ethics Committee. His recent public policy work has included leading the Accountability and Governance Review of Department of Defense (The Black Review) in 2010 and the Prime Minister’s Independent Review of the Australian Intelligence Community in 2011. He is currently the strategic advisor to the Secretary for Education in Victoria. He is a director of the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA). His education works includes chairing the Board of Teach for Australia and sitting on the Board of the New York based Teach for All. He is a Director of the law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth. Before becoming Master of Ormond, Rufus worked at McKinsey & Company for 9 years where he was a partner. He holds degrees in law and politics from the University of Melbourne and degrees in moral theology from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Susan Boucher
Deputy Chairperson
Susan Boucher has worked at an executive level in the not for profit sector for the past 16 years. In that time she has led teams working in both the education and health sectors and been responsible for the development and leadership of a range of influential work aimed at improving the education and health and wellbeing of ALL children and young people. Her work in Indigenous education has spanned the last decade and resulted in a coalition of over 5200 schools working to improve education, employment and health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and to promote Reconciliation. Up until the end of 2009 Susan was the Chief Executive Officer of the Adelaide based national organisation Principals Australia taking the company into new markets locally, nationally and internationally and concluding complex contract negotiations across senior levels of private and public organizations and State and Territory and Federal Government Agencies. In 2004 The Bulletin named Susan as one of the Smart 100 Australians a list of one hundred people, ten in ten fields, making a difference to Australian society through innovation. Susan was a finalist in the Telstra Business Woman of the year Awards in 2007 and a delegate of the Australian governments 2020 Summit in 2008. Recently (2009) she was named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators and founding co chair of EdWell Australia a network that aims to influence policy makers and practitioners so that effective mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention are enabled in education settings.
Melodie Potts Rosevear
Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Executive Officer Melodie is responsible for providing strategic direction and overseeing day-to-day operations. She has been involved with the program since its earliest conception and wrote the original business plan for the organisation while completing her Masters studies at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Melodie worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and as Think Tank Co-ordinator for the Cape York Institute.
Anthony Mackay
Director
Anthony Mackay is CEO, Centre for Strategic Education (CSE) Melbourne, Chair, Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), and Deputy Chair, Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). Tony is Co-Director of the Global Education Leaders Program (GELP) and Chair of the Innovation Unit Ltd, England. He is a consultant advisor to OECD/CERI. Tony is the Immediate Past President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) and is a founding member of the Governing Council of the National College for School Leadership in England. Tony is an Honorary Fellow in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, a Board Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research, the Asia Education Foundation, and the Foundation for Young Australians. Tony’s policy advice, consultancy and facilitation work focuses on education strategy for Government Departments, Bodies and Agencies, think tanks and leadership teams in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America.
