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Chanel Contos is the Founder & CEO of Teach Us Consent, recipient of the Australian Human Rights Commission Young People’s Medal in 2021, 2023 NSW Young Woman of the Year for persistent efforts towards eradicating rape culture, and BBC’s 100 inspiring and Influential Women Worldwide. Chanel was appointed by Julia Gillard to chair the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership’s Youth Advisory Committee. She is the author of Consent Laid Bare: sex, entitlement, and the distortion of desire.

Ben Mathews is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Law at Queensland University of Technology. For 25 years he has conducted multidisciplinary research into child maltreatment, with child sexual abuse a key area of research expertise. His research has influenced legal and systemic reforms in Australia and overseas to improve ways of preventing, identifying and responding to child sexual abuse. He is Lead Investigator of the Australian Child Maltreatment Study.

Tarang is an award-winning keynote speaker, writer, advocate and recovering lawyer.Tarang serves as Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission where he works to bring the voices and lived experiences of culturally diverse people to policymakers. He is also the co-founder of Not One More Niki, a grassroots non-profit working to end men’s violence against women named in memory of his younger sister Nikita who was murdered by her partner in 2015.Tarang is also a sessional academic at The University of Melbourne and Monash University where he teaches across the School of Sociology and Social Sciences, Politics and International Relations, and the Centre for Media, Film and Journalism.

Padma Raman PSM is Executive Director of the Office for Women (OFW) at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Prior to joining OFW in September 2023, she was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety Limited (ANROWS) from 2021. In her time as CEO, Padma established ANROWS as the widely recognised leading authoritative voice on evidence to end violence against women and children.

Before starting as CEO of ANROWS, Padma was the Chief Executive of the Australian Human Rights Commission for 11 years. Prior to that she established and was Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Law Reform Commission for 9 years and served as a part-time commissioner of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission for 5 years.Padma has a wealth of experience as a senior executive at both the state and federal level, and in 2018 was awarded the Public Service Medal (PSM) for outstanding service leading significant cultural, technological and governance change. She has a Master of Laws by research focusing on the experiences of immigrant and Indigenous women under the Australian legal system.

Padma is also appointed by the Commonwealth Government as an independent member of the ANU Council and further serves on the Students Safety and Wellbeing Committee of Council.