PHILLIP CENERE
Chief Executive · Company Director

Phillip
Cenere

More than 20 years leading large, complex organisations across education, research and the not-for-profit sector — from university campuses to national health charities and the boardrooms that govern them.

Portrait of Phillip Cenere
Phillip Cenere FAIM GAICD

Current Appointments

Executive and board roles held today

Higher education is experiencing major changes, challenges and opportunities. Borders are shifting, funding models are being reinvented, and the missions of universities are being redefined. I believe that success leaves footprints. Phillip Cenere

Executive
Career

Higher education & health

Phillip's executive career spans higher education, health and advisory work, including appointments as CEO, Executive Dean and Professor of the Australian Institute of Business Intelligence, and Associate Vice Chancellor and Head of Campus (NSW) at CQUniversity.

He previously spent six years as Associate Dean of the School of Business and Senior Lecturer in Public Relations at The University of Notre Dame, Sydney, and has taught at the University of Adelaide, Macquarie University, UTS and the University of Wollongong.

He has audited colleges as a registered expert for the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), served on the Academic Board of UTS, and advised global investment clients as a Specialist Consultant (Higher Education) with Third Bridge Group and through his own management and board consultancy.

Governance, Writing & Service

A sustained contribution to director education, publishing and the community sector

Director Education

Served on the AICD's NSW Council and its National Education Advisory, Curriculum Development and Director Professional Development Committees — the bodies overseeing the flagship Company Directors Course. A former Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), with council and committee service also spanning the Banking and Finance Oath, RDA Sydney, the Australian Business Deans Council, the Australia China Business Council, the Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM), the Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA) and Early Birds Marketplace.

Writing & Speaking

Co-author of Communication Skills for Business Professionals (Cambridge University Press) and a contributor to the AICD's Company Director magazine. Has organised and chaired national conferences spanning corporate social responsibility through to strategy, risk management, crisis management and good governance, for the AICD, ATEM and CPA Australia, and chaired the annual MAPexpo for several years.

Community & Not-for-Profit

Board service with the Centre for Disability Studies (affiliated with the University of Sydney's Medical School and Royal Rehab), Nutrition Australia — the organisation behind the original Healthy Eating Pyramid — and the remuneration committee of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples.

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