Professor Georgina Willetts FACN CMgr FIML

Professor Georgina Willetts has over 30 years nursing experience and more than a decade of experience in leading nursing and midwifery reform within the healthcare industry, moving to academia in 2011. She has completed two educational programs at Harvard Macy institute in Boston USA and continues to be a visiting faculty there, she received her doctorate of education in 2014 and was awarded the University wide Monash Teacher Accelerator Program honours in 2015.

Georgina is currently Head of Discipline & Course Director in Nursing within the Department of Health Professions at Swinburne University, where she established a new discipline of nursing and contemporary nursing curriculum using innovative teaching strategies. Her clinical interests are medical/surgical nursing, models of care, interprofessional practice/education and professional identity. Her research interests include translational research into the areas of healthcare education, health care workforce, and the performance of professional identity in practice.

Georgina has been an active member of ACN and the Royal College of Nursing for more than 15 years, she is involved in the ACN Policy Chapters and the Emerging Leaders program. Georgina is a Fellow of ACN.

Michael V Ryan B.Com LLB LLM

Michael Ryan is a practising solicitor with Keystonelaw and an accredited mediator. Michael has over 35 years’ experience as a partner in leading Australian and International law firms. He specialises in corporate and commercial law representing clients across many industries including the health industry. He has for many years advised boards of directors of small, medium and large companies including listed companies on their duties, conflicts and governance and works closely with boards to support them through complex or difficult periods or transactions. He has presented papers on corporate law topics including directors’ duties and exposures and has been recognised by his peers as a leading corporate law and mergers and acquisition practitioner. He joined the board in June 2021.

Adjunct Professor Chris Raftery FACN

RN, NP, BNur, MEmergN, MBA(HSM), MNSc(NP),  PhD(c)

Adjunct Professor Chris Raftery FACN is a well-respected published and endorsed nurse practitioner, as well as distinguished and dynamic nursing leader who has been part of the profession for over 2 decades.  He is Deputy Chair of the Queensland Clinical Senate and a strong advocate for nursing in Queensland and nationally, maximising the full potential of our profession in our current and future health system.  As the former national president of the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners, Adjunct Professor Raftery, having broad clinical and systems leadership experience and credibility across the sector, is a leading identity with the development and growth of advanced practice nursing and the role of the nurse practitioner at the local, state and national levels, informing healthcare policy, strategy, reform and regulation.  He also influences capacity building across the system in partnership with key stakeholders, to deliver nursing solutions for state and national health priorities.  With additional strengths in innovation, technology and health economics, his contribution and strategic influence in shaping and advancing the nursing profession nationally, continues to maximise our individual and collective opportunities now and into the future.