Katherine Schaefer

Kathy is an experienced non-executive director and former senior government executive with over 30 years’ experience working across Government portfolio areas of economic and industry development, infrastructure and major projects delivery, tourism, education, training and employment, land use planning and local Government.

Kathy is currently a non-executive Director on the Sustainable Timber Tasmania Board, a nonexecutive Director of Cradle Coast Authority, a Commissioner on the Tasmanian State Grants Commission, a Divisional Council Member for AICD Tasmania and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee for the Department of Treasury and Finance Tasmania. Kathy holds a MBA from the University of Adelaide, a Bachelor of Education (BEd) and a Graduate Diploma in English as a Second Language Teaching from the Brisbane College of Advanced Education and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In 2016, Kathy was awarded the Public Service Medal in the Australia Honours and Awards System.