Rose Bryant-Smith

As Faculty Executive Director, Rose ensures the delivery of high-quality corporate services, infrastructure management, risk management, student services, and all aspects of Faculty operations. With the Dean and Faculty Executive team, she leads the development and execution of strategy and the Faculty’s values-driven culture.

The teams that report to Rose include the Research Office, Strategic Operations and Infrastructure, Student and Academic Services, and Strategy, Planning and Resources. The Faculty Executive Director’s Leadership Group also includes the Directors of Finance, Human Resources, Communications and Marketing, Business Development, Advancement, and Future Students.

Rose joined the Faculty of Science in 2023. Prior to joining the University, Rose co-founded the market-leading workplace advisory firm Worklogic. She was previously a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, and a guest lecturer at Melbourne Business School and the Australian National University Law School (2017-2021). Rose was a commercial lawyer at leading law firms Allens Linklaters and Clayton Utz (2001-2007), a Vincent Fairfax Fellow in Ethics and Leadership (2008-2009), and Human Rights Law Fellow at Mercy Global Action at the United Nations in New York (2016). In 2019, Rose was a Finalist in the Telstra Business Women's Awards.

As a professional Board Director since 2007, Rose has contributed to the responsible governance of organisations of up to $100M turnover, including Nationwide Health & Aged Care Services, the Queen Elizabeth Centre, Xpand Foundation (a reforestation social enterprise, carbon credit broker and green tech business), the Quality and Population Health Committee of the Royal Children's Hospital, and the Bank Australia Social Impact Committee.

She is co-author of ‘Effective Workplace Investigations’ (4^th Edition, Wolters Kluver, 2024), ‘Fix Your Team’ (Wiley, 2018) and ‘Inherent Dignity: An advocacy guidebook to preventing human trafficking’ (Mercy Global Action, 2018).

Rose has a Global Executive Master of Business Administration (Monash University, 2022), and Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Laws (Hons) (University of Melbourne, 2000). She is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.