Sharon Gollan has strong affinity with and is an active community member of the Ngarrindjeri group in South Australia. She has over 35 years of experience in the public sector in a range of community services and management positions primarily focused on creating better services for Aboriginal peoples, followed by eight years in academic teaching and research before focusing all her time on running her training and consultancy business, as well as contributing to better life outcomes for Aboriginal peoples through Boards, State Committees and Working Groups.

Sharon Gollan has invited beyond... to work with her since 1999 in developing and delivering training programs focused on cultural respect and safety as part of organisational change projects and reconciliation action plans (RAPs). They also work together on a regular basis to develop and/or evaluate health, education, family and community service programs at state and national levels.

Sharon Clarke is Wergaia, Wemba Wemba, and Djadwajali on her mother’s side which is in the Wimmera region of north-western Victoria and on her father’s side Gundjitimara which is in the western district of Victoria.

Sharon works for the Department of Health and Wellbeing, Public Health, Prevention and Population Health, Wellbeing SA in Adelaide, South Australia. Sharon works with Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in remote, rural and metropolitan regions across South Australia in Indigenous Women’s Health.

An AES Board member, Sharon chairs the the Indigenous Culture and Diversity Committee.

Skye is a proud mother and First Nations woman who is currently completing a PhD in Indigenous Data Sovereignty and models of care for high risk young people, at the University of NSW. Additionally she is the CEO of Kowa and Blak Impact Lead at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence in Redfern. Skye is an experienced social researcher and evaluator. Skye has contributed to numerous research and evaluation projects including place-based, collective impact and government initiatives. Skye has a particular interest in Indigenous data sovereignty and governance, and grounds these principles within her work. She brings a unique approach to evaluation which considers sustainable First Nations governance and community and individual defined and led concepts.

Kathleen Stacey is the Managing Director and Principal Consultant at beyond... She spent her formative working years within the public sector and academia, before establishing and expanding beyond... into its current form. The company conducts consultancy, evaluation, research and training work in human services fields, with a specialist focus in health, education, youth, early childhood, mental health, and family and community support services. It has developed a strong reputation for culturally respectful work in Aboriginal programs and organisations and has worked consistently and collegially with Aboriginal consultants across a range of projects since beyond…’s inception in 2000. beyond...specialises in:

• program design, planning, implementation and evaluation
• organisational and service reviews
• strategic and business planning
• research
• facilitation
• workforce and curriculum development, including development and delivery of training.

John is the outgoing President of the AES Board. John was elected as President in 2018 and sat as a board member since 2016. With a background in frontline juvenile justice and child protection work before joining the Australian Public Service, John has been internal evaluation practitioner within the Australian Government for 15 years. He is also a Fellow at both The University of Melbourne and Charles Darwin University, reflecting his interests in evaluation theory and praxis, evaluation capability and capacity building, evaluation use and strategic evaluation.

His involvement in the AES evolved from regular attendance at the AES International Evaluation Conference to membership of the AES Canberra Region Committee, AES Board and the aes17 Conference Committee. In addition to President John is currently Chair of the Relationships Committee.

Margaret Crawford commenced as the Auditor-General of New South Wales in April 2016. She has many years’ experience as a senior executive across large, complex public sector organisations – local, state and the Commonwealth governments – including the Victorian Department of Human Services, the Australian Taxation Office, the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority and Australia's largest local government, Brisbane City Council. Before becoming Auditor-General, she held the position of Deputy Secretary at the NSW Department of Family and Community Services.

Margaret has worked across a diverse range of sectors, including housing and homelessness, community and disability services, road transport policy and regulation, taxation administration and gaming regulation and currently holds the position of Auditor-General for New South Wales.

Mary is the Managing Director of the Centre for Evidence and Implementation in Singapore. She has lived in Asia since 2012, supporting organisations to develop strategies and capture innovations that generate impact across more than 25 countries. Her clients have included governments, foundations, impact investors, non-profits, multilateral donors, and educational institutions. In her role with CEI, Mary supports organisations to maximise the impact of the programs they fund, including through evaluation, evidence synthesis, and effective implementation.