Di is the President of the Australia Africa Chamber of Commerce, on the Advisory Board of the Bastow Institute and the Imaginative Education Research Group, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Di brings a wealth of leadership experience across education, industry, innovation and trade. As Australia is engaging with Africa across diverse sectors, Di has many stories to tell, challenges to wager and principles for leadership to share.

Previously, Di was founding director and associate professor in Digital Design at RMIT University where she established and developed the Victorian Government�s Centre for Excellence in Digital Design. Di was also founding director and CEO of Digital Harbour Holdings Pty Ltd, which won the bid to develop the Commonwealth Technology Port Precinct at the Melbourne Docklands.

As Principal of Kilvington Girls� Grammar (1993-2001), Di was the first educator to achieve the Telstra Victorian Businesswoman of the Year Award and the National Telstra/AusIndustry Award.

Throughout her career she has given over two hundred keynote presentations and workshops for both public and private sector organisations throughout Australia, Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

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