Susan Pascoe

Susan Pascoe AM is Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. She Chairs the Australian Council for International Development and the Community Director's Council. She is a member of the Victorian Government's Kindergarten Reform Implementation Board.

In 2017 she co-chaired with Prof Deb Brennan, a review into Early Childhood Education for the Council for the Australian Federation, culminating in the Lifting our Game Report.

Adjunct Professor Pascoe was the inaugural Commissioner for the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission from 2012 to 2017. Prior to this appointment, she was Victorian State Services Authority Commissioner. She was as one of three Commissioners for the 2009 Royal Commission into Black Saturday Bushfires.

Her earlier career was in education where she served as Director of Catholic Education in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, and CEO and Chair of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria. Adjunct Professor Pascoe is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Institute of Public Administration of Australia and the Australian College of Educators.