Future Female 2021-22 Launch Event
✨Celebrating Future Female Leadership✨
Gender disparity remains overt in various fields, from academia to politics, from business to sports. The underrepresentation of women leaders drives a negative cycle for girls and young women who too often lack role models that help break the mould of gender stereotypes. For international students and women from CALD communities, the challenge is even greater. At Future Female, we believe in the power of role modelling and we champion putting the spotlight on women leaders. Through sharing your lived experiences, our students get to peek into a future that may have previously been perceived as unattainable to them. Your hope and advice are also valuable for future female leaders who will carry with us the experience and lessons from Australia.
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Speakers
Prof Jodie McVernon
Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology,
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Professor Jodie McVernon is a physician with subspecialty qualifications in public health and vaccinology. She has extensive expertise in clinical vaccine trials, epidemiologic studies and mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, gained at the University of Oxford, Health Protection Agency London and The University of Melbourne. Since 2015, she leads a nationally distributed National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence in Infectious Diseases Modelling (www.prism.edu.au). Her unit’s work on influenza and pertussis has been translated into national and international infectious diseases policy through engagement with the Australian Government Office of Health Protection, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation and World Health Organization.
Bhavika Unnadkat
Head of Data Strategy Analytics and Governance,
Momentum Energy
Bhavika Unnadkat is the head of data at Momentum Energy. She believes that data can be used to make the world a better place. She is an Information Management professional with fifteen years’ experience in complex information environments spanning the full spectrum of structured data to unstructured information. She is an eloquent and influential communicator, adept at stakeholder management at all levels of the organisation, across multiple business lines, shared services, third parties and vendors. She has proven business acumen with demonstrated results to deliver enhanced customer experience and increased business profitability. She possesses deep technical knowledge of multiple specialisms including metadata, data warehousing, data governance, data quality, enterprise architecture, data lineage, Big Data, data analytics, and regulatory requirements. Bhavika is a big advocate of encouraging more women in data, she mentors young women who are keen in progressing their career as data professionals.
Debbie Lee
General Manager AFLW,
Western Bulldogs
Debbie Lee is currently the Western Bulldog’s General Manager AFLW after a long and distinguished play career, recording 302 VWFL games. Debbie developed the AFL Women’s exhibition series between Melbourne Football Club and the Western Bulldogs, which has now developed into the AFLW League. Debbie has been a true change agent; she has invested more than half her life into growing women’s football into what it is today. Debbie has won five Helen Lambert medals as the VFLW’s best and fairest player, and captained Victoria on six occasions. Debbie became the first woman inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame and was awarded as an AFL Life Member to recognise her efforts and contribution to Women’s Football.
