Carrie Chan

Background

About Carrie Chan

I have extensive executive leadership experience in strategic policy development, board advice, executive governance, legislation review and regulatory reform, corporate projects, program management, stakeholder engagement and relationship management. • NSW Parliamentary committees experience (5 years)- Legislation Review Committee (scrutinising all legislative bills and reviewing regulations). • Managed inquiries, public hearings and complex stakeholder engagement - Local Government Private Partnerships for Asset Redevelopment; Development of Arts and Cultural Infrastructure Outside the Sydney CBD; for the then Standing Committee on Public Works. • Led the policy, research & advocacy functions as national Head of Policy at No To Violence. • Led the former national Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse as Director (CEO) with budget over $1.2 million - 6 direct reports. • Managed & reviewed state wide policies & programs in community palliative care (funding of $35 million) and transition planning for NDIS at NSW Ministry of Health. • Established the first (inaugural) submissions review team and process - for strategic policy review at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. • Strategic advice, advocacy, stakeholders engagement and board governance as Executive Director on high-level board (Mayors and councillors of 8 local councils); along with executive advice & management to various committees (General Managers Advisory Council; Parliamentary Committees comprised of Members of Parliament; Police Advisory Council chaired by the then Police Commissioner). • Chaired the then Legal Committee to the former Domestic Violence Advisory Council. • Led and reviewed corporate governance & legislative compliance advice to senior executive management and Councils (General Managers; Mayors and Councillors). • Managed senior policy advice which included- statutory reviews and remaking of regulations at Department of Justice - delivering the first overarching framework on Alcohol Policy Strategy for NSW Police - stewardship of ethnic affairs policy & establishment of the inaugural Police and Ethnic Communities Advisory Council chaired by the Police Commissioner - evaluation of NSW Police Service Aboriginal Strategic Plan, commissioned by Ombudsman - legal policy for a Senator on international law, human rights and administrative law. • Published research & lectured in law at Sydney University and Macquarie University.