Business Briefing with Ita Buttrose

Chair, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

 
AmCham is excited to present Ita Buttrose, Chairman of Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Ita has become part of the Australian corporate landscape over her accomplished 60-year career as a journalist, businesswoman, television personality and author.
  
Ita is one of the most powerful community and welfare voices across Australia, with accolades for her work across women’s issues and strong advocacy of mental health. 
  
As Chair of the ABC, Australia’s independent multi-platform media operation and public broadcaster, Ita is tasked with restoring stability to the management and community trust to the organisation.

About the Speaker

Ita Buttrose has held executive and editing roles for major Australian media companies including Australian Consolidated Press (now Bauer Media), News Ltd and Fairfax and has run her own media company, Capricorn Publishing.  She has served on the boards of Australian Consolidated Press, News Ltd., and Television & Telecasters Pty Ltd., (Network TEN).   She has worked in print, radio and television and has written 11 books. She was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame in 2017.

A founding member and former president of Chief Executive Women she is a committed community and welfare contributor and chaired Arthritis Australia 2003-06 and later Alzheimer’s (now Dementia) Australia from 2011-14. She is now National Ambassador for Dementia Australia.

She has been a member of the Sydney Symphony Council since 2010 and a Trustee of Centennial and Moore Park Trust in Sydney since 2012.

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