Conference Organising Group
Chair
Julie Oberin AM
CEO, Annie North, 5WCWS Conference Chair and Co-Chair Program Advisory Group, Wesnet Board member and GNWS Founding and Board member
VIC, Australia
Margaret Augerinos
CEO, Centre for Non-Violence (CNV) and Wesnet and GNWS Board member
VIC, Australia
Leanne Barron
CEO, Starick and Wesnet and GNWS Board member
WA, Australia
Karen Bentley
CEO, Wesnet, Co-Chair 5WCWS Program Advisory Group, Board Member GNWS Foundation and GNWS Board member
VIC, Australia
Elise Philips
Deputy CEO, Domestic Violence NSW and Wesnet and GNWS Board member
NSW, Australia
Nicolette Hughes
Conference Director, Wesnet
NSW, Australia
Program Advisory Group
Co-chair
Julie Oberin AM
CEO, Annie North, 5WCWS Conference Chair and Co-Chair Program Advisory Group, Wesnet Board member and GNWS Founding and Board member
VIC, Australia
Co-chair
Karen Bentley
CEO, Wesnet, Co-Chair 5WCWS Program Advisory Group, Board Member GNWS Foundation and GNWS Board member
VIC, Australia
Pan Ay-Woan
Chairperson, Garden of Hope Foundation
Taiwan
Donna Chung
John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin School of Allied Health
WA, Australia
Tina Dixson
Academic, Australian National University (ANU)
ACT, Australia
Rebecca Glenn
CEO, Centre for Women’s Economic Safety
NSW, Australia
Jenny Holmes
Project Lead: From Now, Women and Girls Emergency Centre
NSW, Australia
Dr Ang Jury ONZM
CEO, National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges and GNWS Board member
New Zealand
Chisato Kitanaka
Co-chair, All Japan Women's Shelter Network and GNWS Board member
Japan
Dixie Link-Gordon
Aunty in Residence, Full Stop Australia & Womens & Girls Emergency Centre
NSW, Australia
Maria Margarita Guille
Executive Coordinator of the Inter American Network of Women Shelters and GNWS Board member
Mexico
Fatima Outaleb
Human rights and advocacy expert and activist and GNWS Board member
Morocco
Essa Reijmers
Senior-policy Advisor and Coördinator of the National Network of Women's Shelters at Valente (Association of Shelters in the Netherlands)
Netherlands
Ashley Slye
Deputy Director, Positively Safe & Domestic Violence Counts, National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) and GNWS Board member
USA
Cindy Southworth
Host of the 2nd World Conference of Women’s Shelters
USA
Aleid van den Brink
Chair of the GNWS Foundation in the Hague, the Netherlands and First Vice-president of GREVIO (expert group for the monitoring of the Istanbul Convention of the Council of Europe) and GNWS Board member
Netherlands
Patricia Vargas
Children, Family and Community Service Catholic Social Services, GNWS Founding member, Board member GNWS Foundation
Canada
Nafula Wafula-Gitonga
Co-founder and Programs Lead, Ushindi Empowerment and GNWS Board member
Kenya