Kerry Stubbs

Kerry Stubbs has significant leadership experience and expertise in the human capital field, including her roles as CEO and Managing Director of Northcott and as the Executive Director of St Vincent’s Hospital.

She has extensive human resources experience and expertise, having worked both as a consultant and a senior practitioner in a variety of human resources roles, culminating in her appointment as the first Corporate Human Resources Manager of Sydney Water. She has also held senior operation roles in the water industry.

Kerry is appointed to a number of government and not for profit Boards and Committees, including Chair of Northcott Innovation, Director of Healthy North Coast Ltd, Director of the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities Ltd, and member of the NSW Domestic and Family Violence and Sexual Assault Council. She has worked as an academic at both Sydney University and the University of Technology. She has been appointed to the College of Adjuncts at Western Sydney University, and has recently been reappointed as a member of the Consumer Advisory Committee of the Digital Health Authority. She has also been appointed to the Disability and Health Sector Consultation Committee, chaired jointly by the Department of Health and DSS.

Kerry has undergraduate and postgraduate honours degrees in Government and Public Administration, and has undertaken study at both Harvard and Stanford Graduate schools of business. She is particularly interested in using human centred design thinking to foster innovation and better codesign of services and systems for the people who use them, and in particular disadvantaged and minority communities. In 2015 she was voted among the top 25 Australians in Pro Bono Australia’s Impact List and in 2007 was the NSW Telstra Businesswoman of the Year in the Community and Government Sector.