Dr Nora Scheinkestel is an experienced company director having served for over 25 years as a non-executive chairman and director of companies in a wide range of industry sectors and in the public, government and private spheres. She is currently a director of Telstra Corporation Limited, Ausnet Services Ltd and Brambles Ltd.

Dr Scheinkestel’s executive background is as a senior banking executive in international and project financing, responsible for the development and financing of major mining and infrastructure projects in Australasia and South East Asia.

She is a published author of Rethinking Project Finance – Allocating and Mitigating Risk in Australasian Projects. Dr Scheinkestel’s prior roles include membership of the Takeovers Panel, an associate professor at Melbourne Business School and consulting to government, corporate and institutional clients in areas such as corporate governance and strategy.

In 2003, she was awarded a centenary medal for services to Australian society in business leadership.