Our Board
Ninti One is governed by a Board, whose purpose is to define the objectives of the organisation and create a framework through which management can meet those objectives.
Ninti One's Board is skilled-based. Board members are drawn from industry, academia, small business, finance, community organisations and government.
The Board meets quarterly in different locations across Australia, with at least one location being remote.
| Prof. Tom Calma AO, Chair
Tom, an Aboriginal man from the Northern Territory, is the National Coordinator, Tackling Indigenous Smoking. He served as Race Discrimination Commissioner from 2004 until 2009, and is the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission. Tom has a long and distinguished career in social justice, community development, and as a senior policy adviser. |
 | Glenise Coulthard, Deputy Chair
Glenise is an Adnyamathanha woman from the Northern Flinders Ranges. She is the Manager Aboriginal Health for the Port Augusta Hospital Cluster (Roxby, Woomera, Leigh Creek, Hawker and Quorn) and a Director on the board of the Royal Flying Doctor Service Central Operations. Glenise is one of a team of founding members of the Iga Warta Cultural Tourism Venture in the Northern Flinders Ranges. |
 | Prof. Sharon Bell
Professor Sharon Bell is Interim Vice Chancellor at Charles Darwin University, a Professorial Fellow at the LH Martin Institute, University of Melbourne and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wollongong. Sharon’s background is as a senior academic administrator, an anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker. She has undertaken significant work on women in the academy and was Co-convenor of Universities Australia Executive Women (previously AVCC Senior Women’s Colloquium) 2005-2008. Drawing on her extensive tertiary education experience over the past 7 years she has been a highly effective designer and facilitator of tertiary education leadership. |
 | Alison Page
Alison is an Aboriginal woman with links to Walbanga and Wadi Wadi peoples of the Yuin nation. She is a designer, artist and cultural planner whose work explores links between cultural identity, art and the built environment. Alison is the Executive Officer of the Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance and has been a regular member of the judging panel on the ABC’s New Inventors since it began. |
 | Dr David Ritchie David has over 20 years’ experience in Chief Executive roles in Northern Territory government agencies responsible for land resource planning, housing and infrastructure in remote communities, parks & wildlife, natural resource management, environment protection and Aboriginal cultural heritage. Since leaving the public service he has run an executive coaching business and is also on the board of the NT Land Corporation. David holds a doctorate in anthropology and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. |
 | Tony Tate AM
Tony was Director, Research and Development, Curtin University and also held senior positions at TAFE and Murdoch University. Tony has been involved with a significant number of CRCs, and comes from a background of meteorology and oceanography. |
| Rod Reeve
Rod is the Managing Director of Ninti One and the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation. Rod is a South Australian agricultural scientist with special expertise in improving the lives of communities. He spent 30 years working internationally and in Australia to become a world leader in international development. |
