Ms Susan Oliver, Executive Director, wwITe Pty Ltd

Ms Susan Oliver is executive director wwITe Pty Limited and Governor of The Smith Family Ltd, as well as a non-executive director of MBF Australia Ltd, non-executive director of Programmed Maintenance Services Limited, non-executive director of Methodist Ladies College Limited.

She is a former Senior Manager of Andersen Consulting and former Managing Director of the Australian Commission for the Future Limited and was previously chairman of ScreenSound Australia, a founding Director of the Big Issue Australia, Managing Director of the Australian Commission for the Future, a member of the Victorian Premiers Multimedia Taskforce, Director of Interact Events, Chair of FHA Design P/L and a Director of the Victorian Institute of Marine Sciences.

She was until mid 1996 a senior manager at Andersen Consulting and headed up an in-house research and development team covering projects in Australia and Asia Pacific in health futures, eCommerce, organising to compete globally and to compete in Asia, and several banking and finance sector futures studies. Prior to this Susan held senior managerial positions in business consulting and in the public service.

Susan is a strategic planner and futurist with a keen interest in technology and its relevance to society and business. She was the publisher of 21C, the magazine of the Australian Commission for the Future, is published in business journals and newspapers including Pretext, and was the principal author of Arts 21, the vision for the development of arts and cultural industries in Victoria. She led the project team that developed the use concept for Federation Square, a major city precinct redevelopment in Melbourne.