Mary Padbury

BA LLB (Hons), GAICD

Appointed: 14 June 2016

Board Committees: Nominations, People & Remuneration

Mary is an intellectual property and trade practices lawyer with over 35 years’ international legal, governance and technology experience. Mary served as the Chairman of Ashurst Australia before its full merger with Ashurst LLP, and was the global Vice Chairman of the post-merger firm. She retired as a Partner of Ashurst at the end of April 2018.

Mary is the Chairman of the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health Ltd, and a member of Chief Executive Women.

Mary is also on the board of the Brandenburg Ensemble Limited which trades as the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra.