Ingrid King - Board Member SPELD NSW

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Ingrid King

LLM (Hons) (Casework) (UTS), BA/LLB (ANU)
SPELD NSW Board Member

Ingrid King joined the SPELD NSW Board in 2019. Ingrid is a barrister at the NSW Bar and advises in relation to corporate governance, risk and regulatory law. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1994 and as a barrister in 2012 and has worked in Singapore and Hong Kong as well as Sydney. She also advises in relation to obligations in relation to charitable fundraising and political donations.

Ingrid also teaches Securities Regulation at UTS Sydney and has an active interest in educational methods. Ingrid has a family member with complex learning difficulties and has observed the frustrations of a person with learning difficulties within an education system that is not always responsive to their needs. She also appreciates the learning curve for parents of children with learning difficulties, and the need for support in learning to advocate for your child.

Ingrid holds an LLM (Hons) (Casework) UTS, and a BA/LLB from ANU. She also regularly provides pro bono advice, both to not-for-profit organisations and in migration litigation.

Mohua Mukherjee

MAICD, FGIA, FCG

SPELD NSW Board Member

Mohua has held senior leadership roles in several organisations and is an experienced non-executive director.
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Professor Saskia Kohnen

SPELD NSW Board Member

Saskia Kohnen joined the SPELD NSW board in late 2022. Saskia has a long history of supporting people with literacy difficulties, their teachers, tutors and clinicians.  A Professor at ACU’s Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy, Saskia conducts research on how children learn to read and spell, what can complicate this process and how to assess and intervene for reading and spelling difficulties. Her work has resulted in many peer-reviewed publications as well as tests used by teachers, clinicians, tutors and researchers.
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Troy Verey

SPELD NSW Board Member

Troy is a deputy principal at Marsden Road Public School (Liverpool NSW) and has over 10 years of teaching and leadership experience in English and Australian schools. His professional interests focus on shifting the culture of education from one based on ideologies to one based on science, and his current projects include developing teacher curriculum content knowledge, cultivating evidence-based pedagogy and improving assessment practices for literacy and numeracy.
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Greg McLachlan

Master of Educational Administration (UNSW), Bachelor of Arts, Diploma In Teaching

SPELD NSW Board Secretary

Greg joined the board in late 2020. He has had an extensive career in education holding leadership roles at a range of levels including twenty years as a principal in the public system. As a teacher and an educational leader, supporting children to maximise their abilities is at the centre of his beliefs.
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David Kinnane

B.Bus, LLB (Hons.), MSLP, CPSP

SPELD NSW Board Member

David Kinnane joined the SPELD NSW Board in 2019. David runs an independent speech, language and reading clinic Banter Speech & Language based in Sydney.
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Jackie Connor

MAICD | Dip Teach

SPELD NSW Board Member

Trained as an Early Childhood Educator Jackie moved into the printing industry. As a business owner Jackie brings a wealth of governance and strategic business skills to SPELD NSW.
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David Rowlinson

B.Arch (Hons), MMktg, MBA

SPELD NSW Treasurer

David joined the board in November 2015. As Campaign Manager for Planet Ark David brings not-for-profit management experience to his role as SPELD NSW Treasurer.
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Rhonda Filmer

BA GradDipEd, COGE M. EdAdmin (UNSW)

SPELD NSW Chair

Gifted Education Consultant and Teacher, Rhonda is the Principal Consultant at Twice Exceptional Educational Consultancy and has a specialist interest in ADHD.
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