Advisory Board
 | Lesley Podesta (Chair)Lesley Podesta is a former senior public servant, having held key roles leading Victorian government and Commonwealth government teams. She was the First Assistant Secretary with responsibility for leading the response to the Bali bombings, the development of the National Immunisation Strategy, the development of a National Health Incident Room to prevent SARS and Avian influenza transmission. She led the Office of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Heath during the historic Closing the Gap campaign and was the head of the Ageing & Aged Care Division. |
 | Sunita BoseSunita Bose is the Managing Director of Digital Industry Group Incorporated DIGI, a non-profit industry association that advocates for the interests of the digital industry in Australia. Prior to joining DIGI, Sunita was the Head of Global Policy for the online petition platform Change.org for five years, based in San Francisco. She developed the company’s Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Community Guidelines and the company’s policy infrastructure to manage harmful user-generated content, in areas such as bullying, hate speech, defamation, fake news, copyright, personal information exposure, child protection and data sharing requests. |
 | Anne CollierAnne Collier is founder and executive director of national non-profit organisation The Net Safety Collaborative (TNSC), which runs NetFamilyNews and piloted a social media helpline for schools in California in 2016. She serves on the trust & safety advisory boards of Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, YouTube and Yubo and advises investors in tech innovation that supports youth wellbeing. Since 2017, she has worked with Google on its “Be Internet Awesome” safety and citizenship curriculum for elementary students worldwide. |
 | Suji KanagalingamSuji Kanagalingam leads Price Waterhouse Cooper’s Australia’s State Government Consulting Practice and is a member of the Australian Government and Public Sector Consulting Leadership team. |
 | John MorleyJohn Morley is the team leader for an Australian funded international climate change support program, managed by DT Global. He has an academic background in urban planning and science and a career that has covered environmental management, climate change and international development. He enjoys working across streams and with new and different partners. |
 | Samantha YorkeSamantha Yorke works as the Authority Lead on Telecommunications and Consumer matters at the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), with a focus on financial hardship, consumer protection and scams. She is an accredited mediator, technology lawyer and policy advisor with over twenty years' experience working within the digital media and technology sectors both in Europe and Australia. Prior to joining ACMA, Sam worked in Government Affairs and Public Policy at Google Australia, established the regulatory function at the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Australia, and worked as General Counsel and Asia Pacific Legal Director for Yahoo!’s Australian business. Sam also spent ten years working in London as a corporate attorney for Microsoft where she supported the MSN business through a period of exponential growth and contributed to the launch of the Xbox consoles across Europe. Sam has acted as a media spokesperson and is a regular public speaker on trends and challenges affecting the digital industry. |
 | John ZoltnerJohn Zoltner, founder and CEO of AI4SocialImpact and AIChildSafety.org, is a pioneering expert in child protection from digital harm, AI for social impact, and technology for development & innovation. Previously, he established the Safe Digital Childhood initiative and the ICT4D practice at Save the Children, one of the world’s largest NGOs, and founded the TechLab at FHI 360. Zoltner has more than two decades of experience leveraging technology to support nonprofits, address humanitarian needs, and protect vulnerable populations—particularly children—from online threats. He has collaborated with major tech companies, government regulators, and international organizations while serving in advisory roles for influential entities including the UN, The World Economic Forum, and the WeProtect Global Alliance. His projects range from academic studies of online grooming, technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence, and youth attitudes towards AI, to the development of generative AI platforms to provide humanitarian actors with critical data and AI-powered online grooming detection systems, demonstrating his commitment to the ethical use of digital technologies to achieve social impact. |
 | Angelica Ojinnaka-PsillakisAngelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis is an accomplished social and health researcher, policy practitioner, and advocate with over a decade of experience championing rights-based, equitable solutions for underserved communities. Her work is grounded in a passion for intergenerational equity and systemic change. As Manager of the Future Healthy Countdown 2030 (a partnership of MCRI, ARACY, and VicHealth), Angelica leads Australia’s national initiative for tracking children and young people’s wellbeing and driving policy change. Her leadership in youth advocacy was demonstrated globally as the 2022 Australian Youth Representative to the United Nations. She is also an Investigator on national and place-based research initiatives and a Board Director for youth-led initiatives such as Yung Prodigy. A respected voice in the community, Angelica is Vice Chair of African Women Australia and advisor to recognised bodies including the UNESCO Chair in Global Health and Education, Sydney Women’s Fund and Centre for Adolescent Health. She regularly features on ABC and produced award-nominated podcasts such as Sink or Swim. She is the 2021 NSW Premier’s Youth Medal recipient and was named one of the United Nations’ 23 Young People Leading Resilient Recovery. |
 | Maha KrishnapillaiMaha’s expertise spans start-ups and major corporations in the public and private sectors including Macquarie Technology, SingTel-Optus and Australia Post. Executive level roles ranged across strategy, negotiation to implementation and customer engagement to Government Policy advocacy. He started his Telco career with Government Regulator AUSTEL (now ACMA/ACCC) in 1990. Maha has also served on a range of Boards, committees, and industry associations. Currently Director on the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman [TIO] Board. Prior Board roles include Deputy Chair of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka. Elected Director of CommsAlliance for ten consecutive years; President of the Asia-Pacific Carriers’ Coalition and member of the Victorian Minister’s Information and Communications Technology Advisory Committee (VICTAC). Current role: Board & Advisory consulting on Business strategy, Managing the Government/Business intersect and providing Digital economy, technology & security insights. |
 | Planning Jay Vynn SawPlanning Jay Vynn Saw is a final-year medical student, researcher, and passionate advocate for youth health equity. He is the Co-Founder of Global Health Youth Connect, a national charity educating young people on global health and the social determinants of health. Planning serves as the Youth and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Representative on the ALIVE National Centre’s Governance Committee and was selected as an ASEAN-Australia Youth Mental Health Fellow by Orygen. He has co-authored multiple publications on youth engagement and leadership in the Medical Journal of Australia and was recently awarded the Rising Star in Youth Health Award by the Australian Association for Adolescent Health. He has also served as Medical Education Chair of the Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA), a VicHealth youth consultant, and a representative on university wellbeing and governance committees. With a deep interest in youth participation, mental health, and health equity, Planning brings lived, academic and leadership experience to his role on the Board. |
