Dr Kathy Alexander
CEO, City of Melbourne

Speaker Bio:

As CEO at the City of Melbourne, Kathy heads up an organisation responsible for the workings of a dynamic, energetic and cosmopolitan 24-hour city that consistently rates top or near top of international surveys of liveability and well-being.

Fortunately the former South Australian Telstra Businesswoman of the Year has a long history in running highly complex organisations.

Prior to Kathy’s appointment at the Council, she ran her own consultancy and was well known as the former CEO of Women’s and Children’s Health, which governed Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital and Royal Women’s Hospital. There she led the development of a successful capital bid to build the new $250m women’s hospital (which opened this year) and initiating planning for the long-awaited redevelopment of the children’s hospital