Elizabeth Crouch AM

Elizabeth has more than 30 years’ experience across the public and private sectors. She has held CEO and board roles across health services, housing, banking, planning and economics, workforce and recruitment, sport, transport and infrastructure, education, information technology and the waste sector.

Elizabeth is Chair of the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network, the Customer Owned Banking Association, Hearing Australia, Catholic Schools Diocese of Parramatta and Ochre Health. She is also the deputy chair of the NSW Institute of Sport and a member of the boards of Hunter Water Corporation and the University of Newcastle.

Elizabeth is Emerita Deputy Chancellor of Macquarie University and has held previous NED roles on the boards of ASX listed ReadyTech, Chandler Macleod Group, McGrath Estate Agents and Bingo Industries. She previously chaired the boards of SGS Economics and Planning and RailCorp, and was a NED on the boards of Angus Knight, the Western Sydney Local Health District, Macquarie University Hospital and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

She spent 16 years with the Federal Government and more than a decade in the private sector including as Chief Executive of the Housing Industry Association.

Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Master of Cyber Security and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

She was awarded an Order of Australia for services to higher education and the rail transport sector.