Professor Cobie Rudd BHSc(N), MPH, PhD, GAICD, Member (16 November 2015 to present)
Professor Cobie Rudd is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Regional Futures) and Vice-President at Edith Cowan University (ECU) with the key responsibility to build ECU’s presence in the regions with a focus on the South West, given ECU South West’s Bunbury campus is the State’s largest regional campus.
Professor Rudd has provided leadership for a diverse range of capacity-building and research projects on a national scale and has also lived, and worked, in Queensland and Canberra in senior management, and policy making and advisory roles for both state and commonwealth governments.
Professor Rudd also holds the ECU portfolio for institutional accreditation in gender equality and oversees professional accreditations for all ECU courses. Previously, she was ECU’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Strategic Partnerships), ECU’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Health Advancement), ECU’s inaugural Chair in Mental Health, and one of five National Teaching Fellows appointed by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching in 2011; the first in simulation-based learning. She’s worked across all sectors in her career, including as a Federal Ministerial policy researcher, State Government policy advisor, CEO in the private sector, and clinician.
She has served as a Non-Executive Director on over 14 boards of governance and holds the degrees of Bachelor of Health Science in Nursing, Master of Public Health, and Doctor of Philosophy. Additionally, she is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Registered Nurse.