List of University of Technology Sydney people

This is a list of University of Technology Sydney people, including notable alumni and staff.

Notable alumni

Academia

Martin Bean – former vice-chancellor at the Open University and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology^[1]
Anthony D. Burke – Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales
Judith Beveridge – Australian poet^[2] and research supervisor at the University of Sydney
John Croucher – Australian statistician and Professor of Management at Macquarie University
Rosalyn Diprose – Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the University of New South Wales
Hatice Gunes – Professor of Affective Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Cambridge
Margaret Simons – Associate Professor of journalism at Monash University

Architecture

Jeremy Edmiston – Australian architect^[3]
Penelope Seidler – Australian architect

Business

Peter Agnew – deputy chair of Surf Life Saving Australia^[4]
Russell Balding – former managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Nina Blackwell – former senior director at Yahoo! and press secretary to former U.S. senator Hillary Clinton^[5]
Kate Burleigh – managing director of Intel in Australia and New Zealand ^[4]
Maile Carnegie – group executive of ANZ Banking Group (ANZ) retail division and former managing director of Google Australia^[6]
Neil Chatfield – former chairman of Virgin Australia and former non-executive director at Transurban^[7]
Cristina Pieta Cifuentes – Economist and former board member of the Australian Energy Regulator^[8]
Rob Coombe – Chairman of Colonial First State and former chairman of MLC Limited^[9]
Cathryn Cox – Executive Director of Health System Planning and Investment, NSW Ministry of Health^[10]
Larry Diamond – Founder & CEO of Zip Co^[10]
Jacqui Feeney – managing director of Fox International Channels (Australia and New Zealand)^[4]
Mark Fitzgibbon – CEO and managing director of nib Health Funds^[11]
Sean Gordon AM (Bachelor of Education in Adult Education, 2000; 2016 UTS Faculty of the Arts and Social Sciences Alumni Award Recipient) –managing director and owner of Gidgee Group, an Indigenous-owned and -managed consultancy;^[12] also co-convenor of the Liberals for Yes group,^[13]^[14] and member of the First Nations Referendum Working Group for the 2023 Australian referendum^[15]^[16]
Todd Greenberg – CEO of the National Rugby League
Rachel Grimes – former CFO (Technology) of Westpac^[4]
Vanessa Hudson – CEO of Qantas^[17]
Frances Hughes – former CEO of the International Council of Nurses (ICN)^[18]
Ben Kennedy – Founder & CEO of Gecko^[10]
George Koukis – founder and former chairman of Temenos AG^[19]
Ido Leffler – Israeli-Australian entrepreneur
Geoff Lloyd – former CEO of MLC Limited^[20]
Graeme Mason – CEO of Screen Australia^[21]
Kim McKay – CEO of Australian Museum
Bettina McMahon – Executive General Manager, Government and Industry Collaboration and Adoption, Australian Digital Health Agency ^[4]
David Murray – former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank (CBA)^[22]
Warwick Negus – Non-executive director at Dexus and former managing director at Goldman Sachs^[23]
Gregory Poche – founder and former chairman of StarTrack^[24]
George Savvides – former managing director of Medibank
Nicky Sparshott – CEO of Unilever Australia and New Zealand^[25]
Vivian Wong – Group Vice President (Higher Educations Technologies) of Oracle Corporation^[26]
Jim White – Senior Vice President (Human Resources) of Paramount Pictures^[10]

Government

Politicians

Premiers of New South Wales

Morris Iemma – former Premier of New South Wales (2005–2008)

Federal politicians

Tanya Plibersek – Member of the House of Representatives for Sydney and former Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party
Roger Price – Former member of the House of Representatives for Chifley, representing the Australian Labor Party
Susan Templeman – Member of the House of Representatives for Macquarie, representing the Australian Labor Party
Matt Thistlethwaite – Member of the House of Representatives for Kingsford Smith, representing the Australian Labor Party^[27]

Australian state and territory politicians

Bryan Doyle – Australian politician
Matt Kean – Australian politician
Wendy Machin – former Australian politician^[28]
Natasha Maclaren-Jones – Australian politician
Daniel Mookhey – Australian politician
Marjorie O'Neill – Australian politician^[29]
Anthony Roberts – Australian Politician
John Robertson – former Leader of the Labor Party in New South Wales
Henry Tsang – former Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney

International politicians

Shawn Atleo – former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada
Sekai Holland – Zimbabwean senator
Gibran Rakabuming Raka – Mayor of Solo in Indonesia

Public servants

Michael Coutts-Trotter – director general of the NSW Department of Family and Community Services

Humanities

Arts

Charlotte Best – Australian actress and model
Natasha Liu Bordizzo – Australian actress and model
Anh Do – Vietnamese-born Australian actor, author and comedian
Genevieve Clay-Smith – Australian filmmaker
Hugh Jackman – Australian actor, singer and producer
Sophie Lee – Australian actor and author
Yiying Lu – Chinese-born graphic designer and artist
Alyssa McClelland – Australian director and actress
James Millar – Australian actor
Zoe Naylor – Australian actress
Amanda Palmer – film executive
Chris Plummer – New Zealand film editor
Chris Taylor – Australian performer and comedian
Rachel Ward – Australian actress and film director^[30]
Emma Watkins – Australian actress and The Wiggles member
Allanah Zitserman – Australian film producer

Fashion

Bec Cooper - Australian fashion designer and co-founder of Bec and Bridge ^[31]
Bridget Yorston - Australian fashion designer and co-founder of Bec and Bridge ^[31]

History

Jeannine Baker – historian and research fellow at Macquarie University

Journalism

David Astle – Australian author, broadcaster and columnist
Jayne Azzopardi – Australian television presenter for Weekend Today & Nine News
Brooke Boney – Entertainment reporter at Nine Network's Today show ^[10]
Kathryn Eisman – Australian fashion and lifestyle television journalist, author and former model
Jan Fran – Australian journalist^[32]
Lynda Kinkade – Australian journalist and anchor at CNN
Sonia Kruger – television presenter
Joel Labi – news anchor and producer
Caroline Meldrum-Hanna – Australian journalist ^[33]
Timothy Palmer – Australian journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation^[34]
Lara Pitt – Australian television presenter and sports journalist
Georgia Rickard – Australian travel journalist

Literature, writing and poetry

Anna Funder – Australian writer and winner of the Miles Franklin Award^[35]
Nikki Gemmell – Australian writer
Kate Grenville – Australian author
Yvette Holt – Australian poet
Janine Shepherd – Australian author
Vanessa Montgomery – Australian author (Astrology)

Law

Elizabeth Broderick – Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner (2007–2015)
Margaret Cunneen – deputy senior crown prosecutor of New South Wales

Sciences

Sarah Benson – Chief forensic scientist at the Australian Federal Police^[36]
Jordan Nguyen – Bio-medical engineer, inventor, and futurist
Lily Serna – Australian mathematician and television presenter
Vanessa Peterson – Australian chemist at ANSTO.

Sport

John Allen – teacher, rugby player and cricketer
Lachie Anderson – rugby union player
Jo Brigden-Jones – Australian kayaker^[37]
Bart Bunting – former Australian skier, Salt Lake City Paralympic gold medalist^[38]
James Chapman – former Australian rower, London Olympic silver medalist
Pat Cummins – Australian cricketer
Nina Curtis – Australian sailor, London Olympic silver medalist for sailing
Claudia Gunjaca – Australian rules football player^[39]
Alyssa Healy – Australian cricketer^[40]
Katie Kelly – Australian paratriathlete, Rio Olympic gold medalist
Boyd Killingworth – rugby union player
Adrienne Marie – former Australian volleyball player
Alexander Purnell – Australian rower, Tokyo Olympic gold medalist^[41]
Hayder Shkara – former Australian taekwondo athlete
Danielle Small – former Australian soccer player
Lucinda Whitty – Australian sailor, London Olympic silver medalist^[42]
Gavin Woods – former Australian water polo player

Other

Mervyn Bishop – Australian photographer

Notable staff

Debra Adelaide – Australian novelist, writer and academic
Philip A. Gale – British supramolecular chemist
Stan Grant – Australian journalist^[43]
Nick Kaldas – Deputy commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force^[44]
Michael Keane – American economist
Antony Kidman – Australian psychologist and academic^[45]
Rosetta Martiniello-Wilks – Australian cancer researcher
Ann Moyal – Australia historian
Jim Peacock – Australian molecular biologist
Göran Roos – Swedish academic and businessman
Louise Ryan – Australian biostatistician
Rosie Scott – Australian and New Zealand novelist
Margaret Trask – Australian librarian
Helen Vatsikopoulos – Australian journalist
Cynthia Whitchurch – Australian microbiologist
Mary-Anne Williams – Australian scientist
Steve Wozniak – American electronics engineer and entrepreneur^[46]

Administration

Chancellors

Order	Chancellor	Years	Notes
1	RN Johnson	1989—1999
2	Sir Gerard Brennan	1999—2005
3	Vicki Sara	2005—2016
4	Brian Wilson	2016	^[47]
5	Catherine Livingstone	2016—present	^[48]

Vice-Chancellors

Order	Vice-Chancellor	Years	Notes
1	RD Guthrie	1988—1996
2	AJD Blake	1996—2002
3	RE Milbourne	2002—2014
4	Attila Brungs	2014—2021	^[49]
5	Andrew Parfitt	2021—present	^[50]

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