Carmel Mulhern

Carmel is an independent non-executive member of the Governance Board.

She has more than 25 years' experience as a global executive and advisor to Boards and CEOs in the financial services, telecommunications, media, technology and manufacturing sectors.

Carmel has extensive leadership and governance experience from senior executive roles at ASX10 entities involving navigating a range of sensitive and complex commercial, policy and stakeholder issues in highly regulated industries with large customer and shareholder bases.

Until 2023, Carmel served as Group General Counsel and Group Executive Legal & Corporate Secretariat at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), driving the fair and efficient resolution of the Bank's legal matters, rebuilding stakeholder trust and effective corporate governance in strategy execution.

Prior to joining CBA, Carmel held various senior executive positions at Telstra, covering legal, government relations, internal and external corporate communications, regulatory engagement and sustainability during periods of strategic transformation and digital disruption.

Carmel is currently a director of the Telstra Foundation, director trustee of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation, deputy chair of Methodist Ladies' College and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics at Melbourne University.  She is a member of Chief Executive Women (CEW), a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and a graduate of the AICD. She holds a Master of Laws from Monash University (Directors' Duties/Corporate Governance).