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Lidia Morawska

Lidia Morawska is Distinguished Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, the Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT, which is a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization on Research and Training in the field of Air Quality and Health, and the Centre Director for the ARC Training Centre for Advanced Building Systems Against Airborne Infection Transmission (THRIVE).

Lidia also holds positions of Vice-Chancellor Fellow, Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), University of Surrey, UK and Adjunct Professor, Institute for Environmental and Climate Research (ECI), Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

She conducts fundamental and applied research in the interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on human health and the environment, with a specific focus on science of airborne particulate matter.

Lidia is a physicist and received her doctorate at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland for research on radon and its progeny. An author of over a thousand journal papers, book chapters and refereed conference papers, Lidia has been involved at the executive level with a number of relevant national and international professional bodies, is a member of the Australian Academy of Science and a recipient of numerous scientific awards.

Marie Boland

Marie Boland has been the Chief Executive Officer of Safe Work Australia since November 2023.

Marie is a Member of Safe Work Australia and its subsidiary committees and a Commissioner of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission. She is a member of the Respect@Work Council and the G20 Occupational Safety and Health Expert Network, and an observer on the Heads of Workplace Safety Authorities and the Heads of Workers’ Compensation Authorities.

Before joining Safe Work Australia, Marie offered independent work health and safety and workplace relations consultancy services.

Marie’s work health and safety experience spans many roles, including completing the 2023 review of the Office of the Federal Safety Commissioner, the 2022 Review of the Conduct of Work Health and Safety Prosecutions in the Australian Capital Territory, an independent review of the South Australian local government sector’s One System WHS Management System in December 2020 and the 2018 National Review of the model work health and safety laws (Boland Review).

Marie was the 2021 Inaugural Thinker in Residence at the University of South Australia’s Psychosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory. Marie has held senior roles at SafeWork South Australia as an Executive Director, Policy and Community Engagement Director and Chief Policy Officer.

Marie holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Master of Arts from University College, Dublin, and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Adelaide.

Professor Richard Johnstone

Richard Johnstone is an honorary professorial fellow at the Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne.

His research and teaching interests lie in labour law (particularly work health and safety), regulation and socio-legal research. He was a founding member deputy director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at the Melbourne Law School, and the founding Director of the National Research Centre for OHS Regulation at the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University.

The principal theme in his research has been whether and how the health and safety of workers is protected by work health and safety regulation. His work largely critically evaluates the way in which regulation is designed and implemented, but he has also contributed to normative debates about the design and reform of work health and safety regulation, and effective enforcement approaches.

Professor Rory O’Neill

Rory is health, safety and labour standards adviser to the Brussels-based International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).

He an award-winning journalist and academic, with a background in science and occupational health. He specialises in labour issues, particularly occupational health and safety. He is editor of Hazards magazine and has worked for national TV and radio broadcasters in the UK and Denmark, national newspapers, trade union journals and specialist magazines. Rory has worked for international organisations including the International Labour Organisation and global labour unions.

He is a professor at Queen Mary University of London Department of Law specialising in occupational health and social justice. He is also an Education Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, in the New England Consortium.