Emeritus Professor Joan Cooper is a Higher Education Consultant. She has an extensive experience in Senior Executive positions in Australian Universities. She retired in March 2012 from the position of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Students)& Registrar at UNSW which she held for 5 years. She was the first PVC(Students) at UNSW and her primary responsibility was the whole spectrum of theunder graduate student experience – from recruitment through to graduation.  Professor Cooper was formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Flinders University. She is a former Dean of Informatics at the University of Wollongong, where she served as Chair of the University Senate, and has held senior positions at the Australian National University and The University of Newcastle. Professor Cooper has wide ranging experience both nationally and internationally in tertiary education accreditation and quality audits. She was appointed an AUQA Auditor in 2004 and in the last 10 years has served on a number of occasions as Panel Chair or panel member of audits and accreditations in both Australia and internationally. Professor Cooper’s most current work involves delivering a variety of Higher Education Consultancy services for HE private providers. Her roles and services include chairing governance committees; reviews of operational areas and reviews and preparation for TEQSA registration and accreditation. Professor Cooper completed her Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours)and Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Newcastle. She was the foundation Professor of Information Technology at Wollongong University, and the first female professor of IT in Australia. In 2003 she was appointed an Emeritus Professor of Wollongong, a title conferred in recognition of her contribution to the University, and in 2004 she was awarded the University of Newcastle’s Convocation Medal for Professional Excellence. In April 2012 UNSW appointed her to an Emeritus Professor. Professor Cooper is a Fellow of ACS (The Australian Computer Society) and was a Foundation member of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (FICA).

Dr Julie Jackson was a Pro Vice-Chancellor at La Trobe University, Australia for a period of 14years, retiring in early 2016.  She held a variety of portfolios primarily in the areas of quality enhancement, educational partnerships and community engagement.  She led the development of the University quality management framework and the preparations for the AUQA audits in 2004 and 2009 as well as guiding the document preparation for the 2016 TEQSA re-accreditation.  She was a member of the La Trobe University Academic Board for 14 years and was elected to the University Council in 2005. She chaired the University Coursework Committee and the Scholarships Committee.     Dr Jackson served as an Australian Universities Quality Agency honorary auditor from 2002 until 2010. She was also the Universities Australia nominee to the Joint Steering Group for the Australian Universities Quality Forum. With a long experience of accreditation and quality assurance in higher education, she was a Ministerial appointee  to the Victorian Higher Education Advisory Committee from 2000 until 2010.She serves on quality assurance and accreditation panels in Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa, as well as Oman.  She is also a registered assessor for the new Australian national accreditation agency, the Tertiary Education and Quality Standards Agency. She has been a visiting academic at a number of Australian and international universities and was a finalist in the Australian Awards for University Teaching, Institutional category in 1998.  With five degrees including qualifications in economics, econometrics, quality management and education she has published widely in these areas and has been successful in obtaining Australian Research Council and Cooperative Research Centre grants.