Amanda Bissex (A’87) has dedicated her career to child protection and providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children in Asia, Africa and the Pacific. She is currently UNICEF Deputy Representative in China, having previously served as UNICEF’s Chief of Child Protection in Laos, Thailand, Zambia, the Pacific and Indonesia, and as Regional Advisor on Child Protection at UNICEF’s Regional Office for South Asia in Nepal. Amanda began her career with CARE Australia and worked with Australian Volunteers Abroad on landmine clearance programs in Cambodia and Laos before joining UNICEF, with an initial focus on child trafficking. Amanda holds a master’s degree in international relations from Deakin University, with a focus on human rights and humanitarian law.

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Professor Rufus Black (Glamorgan ’81) is the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Tasmania. He was previously Master of Ormond College and an Enterprise Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing and a Principal Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at The University of Melbourne. His experience includes being a partner at McKinsey and Company, the President of Museums Victoria, and the Deputy Chancellor of Victoria University. Rufus has deep interdisciplinary interests, publishing in the fields of both ethics and economics, and recently co-authored Ethics at War (Routledge, 2024). He holds degrees in law, politics, economics, ethics, and theology from The University of Melbourne and Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.