List of University of Technology Sydney people explained

This is a list of University of Technology Sydney people, including notable alumni and staff.

Notable alumni

Academia

• Martin Bean – former vice-chancellor at the Open University and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology^[1]
• Anthony D. Burke – Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales
• Judith Beveridge – Australian poet^[2] and research supervisor at the University of Sydney
• John Croucher – Australian statistician and Professor of Management at Macquarie University
• Rosalyn Diprose – Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the University of New South Wales
• Hatice Gunes – Professor of Affective Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Cambridge
• Margaret Simons – Associate Professor of journalism at Monash University

Architecture

• Jeremy Edmiston – Australian architect^[3]
• Penelope Seidler – Australian architect

Business

• Peter Agnew – deputy chair of Surf Life Saving Australia^[4]
• Russell Balding – former managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
• Nina Blackwell – former senior director at Yahoo! and press secretary to former U.S. senator Hillary Clinton^[5]
• Kate Burleigh – managing director of Intel in Australia and New Zealand
• Maile Carnegie – group executive of ANZ Banking Group (ANZ) retail division and former managing director of Google Australia^[6]
• Neil Chatfield – former chairman of Virgin Australia and former non-executive director at Transurban^[7]
• Cristina Pieta Cifuentes – Economist and former board member of the Australian Energy Regulator^[8]
• Rob Coombe – Chairman of Colonial First State and former chairman of MLC Limited^[9]
• Cathryn Cox – Executive Director of Health System Planning and Investment, NSW Ministry of Health
• Larry Diamond – Founder & CEO of Zip Co
• Jacqui Feeney – managing director of Fox International Channels (Australia and New Zealand)
• Mark Fitzgibbon – CEO and managing director of nib Health Funds^[10]
• Sean Gordon (Bachelor of Education in Adult Education, 2000; 2016 UTS Faculty of the Arts and Social Sciences Alumni Award Recipient) –managing director and owner of Gidgee Group, an Indigenous-owned and -managed consultancy;^[11] also co-convenor of the Liberals for Yes group,^{[12] [13]} and member of the First Nations Referendum Working Group for the 2023 Australian referendum^{[14] [15]}
• Todd Greenberg – CEO of the National Rugby League
• Rachel Grimes – former CFO (Technology) of Westpac
• Vanessa Hudson – CEO of Qantas^[16]
• Frances Hughes – former CEO of the International Council of Nurses (ICN)^[17]
• Ben Kennedy – Founder & CEO of Gecko
• George Koukis – founder and former chairman of Temenos AG^[18]
• Ido Leffler – Israeli-Australian entrepreneur
• Geoff Lloyd – former CEO of MLC Limited^[19]
• Graeme Mason – CEO of Screen Australia^[20]
  • Kim McKay – CEO of Australian Museum Bettina McMahon – Executive General Manager, Government and Industry Collaboration and Adoption, Australian Digital Health Agency
• David Murray – former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank (CBA)^[21]
• Warwick Negus – Non-executive director at Dexus and former managing director at Goldman Sachs^[22]
• Gregory Poche – founder and former chairman of StarTrack^[23]
• George Savvides – former managing director of Medibank
• Nicky Sparshott – CEO of Unilever Australia and New Zealand^[24]
• Vivian Wong – Group Vice President (Higher Educations Technologies) of Oracle Corporation^[25]
• Jim White – Senior Vice President (Human Resources) of Paramount Pictures^[26]

Government

Politicians

Premiers of New South Wales

• Morris Iemma – former Premier of New South Wales (2005–2008)

Federal politicians

• Tanya Plibersek – Member of the House of Representatives for Sydney and former Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party
• Roger Price – Former member of the House of Representatives for Chifley, representing the Australian Labor Party
• Susan Templeman – Member of the House of Representatives for Macquarie, representing the Australian Labor Party
• Matt Thistlethwaite – Member of the House of Representatives for Kingsford Smith, representing the Australian Labor Party^[27]

Australian state and territory politicians

• Bryan Doyle – Australian politician
• Matt Kean – Australian politician
• Wendy Machin – former Australian politician^[28]
• Natasha Maclaren-Jones – Australian politician
• Daniel Mookhey – Australian politician
• Marjorie O'Neill – Australian politician^[29]
• Anthony Roberts – Australian Politician
• John Robertson – former Leader of the Labor Party in New South Wales
• Henry Tsang – former Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney

International politicians

• Shawn Atleo – former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada
• Sekai Holland – Zimbabwean senator
• Gibran Rakabuming Raka – Mayor of Solo in Indonesia

Public servants

• Michael Coutts-Trotter – director general of the NSW Department of Family and Community Services

Humanities

Arts

• Charlotte Best – Australian actress and model
• Natasha Liu Bordizzo – Australian actress and model
• Anh Do – Vietnamese-born Australian actor, author and comedian
• Genevieve Clay-Smith – Australian filmmaker
• Hugh Jackman – Australian actor, singer and producer
• Sophie Lee – Australian actor and author
• Yiying Lu – Chinese-born graphic designer and artist
• Alyssa McClelland – Australian director and actress
• James Millar – Australian actor
• Zoe Naylor – Australian actress
• Amanda Palmer – film executive
• Chris Plummer – New Zealand film editor
• Chris Taylor – Australian performer and comedian
• Rachel Ward – Australian actress and film director^[30]
• Emma Watkins – Australian actress and The Wiggles member
• Allanah Zitserman – Australian film producer

History

• Jeannine Baker – historian and research fellow at Macquarie University

Journalism

• David Astle – Australian author, broadcaster and columnist
• Jayne Azzopardi – Australian television presenter for Weekend Today & Nine News
• Brooke Boney – Entertainment reporter at Nine Network's Today show
• Kathryn Eisman – Australian fashion and lifestyle television journalist, author and former model
• Jan Fran – Australian journalist^[31]
• Lynda Kinkade – Australian journalist and anchor at CNN
• Sonia Kruger – television presenter
• Joel Labi – news anchor and producer
• Caroline Meldrum-Hanna – Australian journalist ^[32]
• Timothy Palmer – Australian journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation^[33]
• Lara Pitt – Australian television presenter and sports journalist
• Georgia Rickard – Australian travel journalist

Literature, writing and poetry

• Anna Funder – Australian writer and winner of the Miles Franklin Award^[34]
• Nikki Gemmell – Australian writer
• Kate Grenville – Australian author
• Yvette Holt – Australian poet
• Janine Shepherd – Australian author
• Vanessa Montgomery – Australian author (Astrology)

Law

• Elizabeth Broderick – Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner (2007–2015)
• Margaret Cunneen – deputy senior crown prosecutor of New South Wales

Sciences

• Sarah Benson – Chief forensic scientist at the Australian Federal Police^[35]
• Jordan Nguyen – Bio-medical engineer, inventor, and futurist
• Lily Serna – Australian mathematician and television presenter
• Vanessa Peterson – Australian chemist at ANSTO.

Sport

• John Allen – teacher, rugby player and cricketer
• Lachie Anderson – rugby union player
• Jo Brigden-Jones – Australian kayaker^[36]
• Bart Bunting – former Australian skier, Salt Lake City Paralympic gold medalist^[37]
• James Chapman – former Australian rower, London Olympic silver medalist
• Pat Cummins – Australian cricketer
• Nina Curtis – Australian sailor, London Olympic silver medalist for sailing
• Claudia Gunjaca – Australian rules football player^[38]
• Alyssa Healy – Australian cricketer^[39]
• Katie Kelly – Australian paratriathlete, Rio Olympic gold medalist
• Boyd Killingworth – rugby union player
• Adrienne Marie – former Australian volleyball player
• Alexander Purnell – Australian rower, Tokyo Olympic gold medalist^[40]
• Hayder Shkara – former Australian taekwondo athlete
• Danielle Small – former Australian soccer player
• Lucinda Whitty – Australian sailor, London Olympic silver medalist^[41]
• Gavin Woods – former Australian water polo player

Other

• Mervyn Bishop – Australian photographer

Notable staff

• Debra Adelaide – Australian novelist, writer and academic
• Philip A. Gale – British supramolecular chemist
• Stan Grant – Australian journalist^[42]
• Nick Kaldas – Deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force^[43]
• Michael Keane – American economist
• Antony Kidman – Australian psychologist and academic^[44]
• Rosetta Martiniello-Wilks – Australian cancer researcher
• Ann Moyal – Australia historian
• Jim Peacock – Australian molecular biologist
• Göran Roos – Swedish academic and businessman
• Louise Ryan – Australian biostatistician
• Rosie Scott – Australian and New Zealand novelist
• Margaret Trask – Australian librarian
• Helen Vatsikopoulos – Australian journalist
• Cynthia Whitchurch – Australian microbiologist
• Mary-Anne Williams – Australian scientist
• Steve Wozniak – American electronics engineer and entrepreneur^[45]

Administration

Chancellors

Order		Years	Notes
1	RN Johnson	1989—1999
2		1999—2005
3		2005—2016
4	Brian Wilson	2016	^[46]
5	Catherine Livingstone	2016—present	^[47]

Vice-Chancellors

Order		Years	Notes
1	RD Guthrie	1988—1996
2	AJD Blake	1996—2002
3	RE Milbourne	2002—2014
4		2014—2021	^[48]
5		2021—present	^[49]

References

1. Web site: Mr Martin Bean CBE - RMIT University. www.rmit.edu.au. en. 2019-04-14.
2. Web site: Judith Beveridge. 2019-04-14. Poetry Foundation. en. 2019-04-14.
3. Web site: Associate Professor Jeremy Edmiston. University of Technology Sydney . 6 July 2022.
4. Web site: Alumni Profiles. 9 November 2019.
5. Web site: Nina Blackwell. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
6. Web site: Maile Carnegie. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
7. Web site: Neil Chatfield. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
8. Web site: 2018-12-24 . Cristina Cifuentes . 2022-06-14 . University of Technology Sydney . en.
9. Web site: Rob Coombe. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
10. Web site: Mark Fitzgibbon. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
11. Web site: Sean Gordon AM . University of Technology Sydney . 2023 . 22 September 2023.
12. Park . Andy. Andy Park (broadcaster) . Sean . Gordon . Sean Gordon to co-lead Liberals for Yes campaign . ABC Listen. audio + text . 12 June 2023 . 22 September 2023.
13. Web site: Gordon . Sean. Sean Gordon . A voice will make right this country's history of division. Will Australians slap away our outstretched hand? . the Guardian . 15 September 2023 . 22 September 2023.
14. Web site: Raised on Brewarrina Mission, Sean Gordon is the latest addition to the Order of Australia . . 11 June 2023 . 22 September 2023.
15. Web site: Gordon . Sean . A voice will make right this country’s history of division. Will Australians slap away our outstretched hand? . the Guardian . 15 September 2023 . 22 September 2023.
16. Web site: 2023-05-02 . Vanessa Hudson, a new Qantas CEO in denial . 2023-08-23 . Australian Financial Review . en.
17. Web site: Frances Hughes. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
18. Web site: George Koukis. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
19. Web site: Geoff Lloyd. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
20. Web site: Graeme Mason. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
21. Web site: David Murray. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
22. Web site: Warwick Negus. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
23. Web site: Gregory Poche. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
24. Web site: Nicky Sparshott. University of Technology Sydney . 21 October 2022.
25. Web site: Vivian Wong. Oracle. 5 July 2020.
26. Web site: UTS Alumni Awards. 9 November 2019.
27. Web site: Hon Matt Thistlethwaite . Senators and Members . . 14 August 2021 .
28. News: Machin elected NRMA president. Wingham Chronicle. Fairfax Media. 2008-12-16. 5 July 2020.
29. Web site: Marjorie O'Neill. Australian Labor Party . 22 May 2022.
30. Web site: Rachel Ward. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
31. Web site: 'You have to see it to be it': Meet three women who are changing the face of Australian TV. Sharon. Verghis. 27 July 2017. The Sydney Morning Herald.
32. Web site: Caroline Meldrum-Hanna. University of Technology Sydney . 5 July 2020.
33. Web site: Timothy Palmer. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
34. Web site: Anna Funder. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
35. Web site: Dr Sarah Benson PSM. University of Technology Sydney . 29 March 2022.
36. Web site: London 2012 - Joanne Brigden-Jones . Australian Olympic Committee . Australia . 2012 . 2020-07-05.
37. Web site: Bart Bunting . Australian Paralympic Committee . 29 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120317061541/http://paralympic.org.au/team/bart-bunting . 17 March 2012 . dmy .
38. Web site: Cat finds absence makes heart, and football, grow stronger . AFL . 23 July 2022.
39. Web site: Bowled over by success. University of Technology Sydney . 5 July 2020.
40. Web site: Meet the UTS athletes competing in Tokyo 2020. University of Technology Sydney . 14 August 2021.
41. Web site: London 2012 - Lucinda Whitty . Australian Olympic Committee . Australia . 2020-07-05.
42. Web site: Stan Grant appointed as UTS Industry Professor. University of Technology Sydney . 2 September 2022.
43. Web site: FASS appoints NSW police leader as Industry Professor. University of Technology Sydney . 2 September 2022.
44. Web site: Dr Antony Kidman: Nicole Kidman's father's legacy of nurture. 19 September 2014. 5 September 2022. Sydney Morning Herald.
45. Web site: Steve Wozniak accepts adjunct professorship at UTS. University of Technology Sydney . 5 September 2022.
46. Web site: Brian Wilson AO University of Technology Sydney. www.uts.edu.au. en. 2019-06-20.
47. Web site: Council members University of Technology Sydney. www.uts.edu.au. en. 2019-06-20.
48. Web site: Pride and sadness in UTS farewell. University of Technology Sydney. 10 November 2021. en.
49. Web site: Space industry pioneer announced as new UTS Vice-Chancellor. University of Technology Sydney. 10 November 2021. en.

External links

• UTS Alumni Association