Appointments

Champion of gender equality Libby Lyons has begun a new role as Chair of the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Limited board.

We are so excited to announce that Women’s Agenda has a new Editor in Chief, Tarla Lambert.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced several new measures to improve fair inclusion and diversity of films in its Oscars procedures.

Bela Bajaria has been named Netflix’s new vice president of global TV, putting her in charge of all of the streaming gaint’s original TV programs.

Christine O’Reilly has been appointed to the Board of Directors at Australian mining company BHP, increasing the number of female Board members.

Sonja Stewart has been appointed the first Indigenous Chair of The GO Foundation, an organisation providing opportunities for Indigenous youth through education.

More women than men have been promoted internally to partner at EY, with 55 per cent of its 31 internal appointments female.

Women now account for 50.4 per cent of the positions on government agriculture boards with a new appointment at Wine Australia.

Nakkiah Lui is leading a new generation of new voices as she teams up with Allen and Unwin to curate a list of authors for a new imprint, called JOAN.

Kamala Harris is the first woman of colour to be named as a vice presidential running mate; Joe Biden’s pick for the 2020 Presidental Election.

Senator Kamala Harris has been selected by Joe Biden to join his ticket running for the US presidency. She becomes the first Black woman to do so.

For the first time in six years, no women of colour CEOs are on this year’s Global 500 list, and only 13 women made made the cut.