Margaret Seale

Independent Director

Chair of Risk & Sustainability Committee

Margie has more than 25 years’ experience in senior executive roles in Australia and overseas, including in the consumer goods, health and global publishing sectors, in sales and marketing, and in the successful transition of traditional business models to digital environments. Immediately prior to her non-executive career, Margie was Managing Director of Random House Australia and New Zealand and President, Asia Development for Random House globally. She is currently a non-executive director of Westpac Banking Corporation and a member of the Board Nominations and Governance Committee and Board Remuneration Committee, and a director of Westpac Scholars Limited, trustee of the Westpac Scholars Trust. She is also a non-executive director of one of Australia’s leading investment advisory firms JANA Investment Advisers Pty Ltd, Seaborn Broughton & Walford Foundation and Pinchgut Opera Limited. Margie has previously served on the boards of Telstra Corporation Limited, Australian Pacific (Holdings) Pty Limited, Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd (as a non-executive director and then Chair), the Australian Publishers’ Association, Bank of Queensland Limited, Ramsay Health Care Limited, Chief Executive Women (chairing its Scholarship Committee), the Powerhouse Museum and the Sydney Writers’ Festival.