Who We Are

Our Management Board

Our Management Board

Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership is governed by a Management Board who account to our partners and the ARACY Board. The team of Queensland-based leaders oversees performance, budget, staffing, risk and operations, keeping us on track to: 

  • deliver our priorities effectively, equitably and efficiently
  • follow our agreed values and principles, including the Partnerships Charter
  • meet our legal, financial and contractual accountabilities to partners and investors.

Thanks to our Management Board members for your guidance and unwavering commitment to Queensland’s kids

Thanks to our Management Board members for your guidance and unwavering commitment to Queensland’s kids.

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Jane Yacopetti

Board chair

Jane is an experienced senior health executive with over 30 years’ experience in both the private and public sectors. She has wide ranging experience in strategy and planning and her management and governance expertise is extensive and varied. She has held executive roles in large tertiary health institutions in Australia and successfully built and managed a consultancy company working both nationally and internationally.

Jane is passionate about delivering services that make an impact on the people for whom the services are intended, and she has an interest in the governance systems and processes necessary to deliver such outcomes.

She has spent a large part of her career working in organisations delivering services to children and young people. This experience gives her valuable insight into the challenges involved in delivering integrated and effective services to this population group.

Lucille Chalmers

Lucille Chalmers

board member

Lucille is an experienced health and human services executive with a special focus on community health and primary healthcare. Lucille is the CEO of Darling Downs & West Moreton PHN and was previously Deputy CEO at Brisbane South PHN.

Lucille has a deep commitment to improving community health and wellbeing with extensive experience in the design, delivery and commissioning of health and human services in Australia and United Kingdom. She has a particular passion for community driven and place-based ways of working to address inequities and improve health outcomes.

She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds qualifications in Business (Philanthropy and Non-Profit Studies), Masters of Public Health and Bachelor of Applied Science (Speech Pathology).

Andrew Chesterman

Andrew Chesterman

Board member

Andrew has an extensive background in strategic leadership and public administration. Since 2012 he has held three CEO / Director General positions within the public sector and has been the CEO at Redland City Council since 2017. He is currently the President of Local Government Managers Australia (Qld) and a member of the CEO Institute.

Andrew is a values-driven individual who has a history of building cohesive teams, often in the face of significant disruption, including Covid and natural disasters, and applying his strategic planning abilities to forge, and communicate, a new direction with buy-in from customers and stakeholders alike. He has a long association with leadership roles associated with building better communities and a more sustainable environment.

As the Qld Public Service Commission CEO, Andrew garnered the support across all Directors-General in the Queensland Government to raise departmental awareness and implement workplace strategies to respond to domestic and family violence. He also personally initiated Government’s involvement in the Queensland Male Champions of Change program and commenced its first Diversity and Inclusion Strategy. In 2017 he initiated Redland City Council’s first Reconciliation Action Plan and continues to drive its implementation today.

Simone Jackson

Simone Jackson

board member

Simone Jackson is a proud Kamilaroi, Yuggera woman from Southwest Queensland. An accomplished Government and now Non-Government Executive with over 25 years’ experience, Simone has worked in roles relating to justice and human services across two jurisdictions (Queensland & Northern Territory). 

Over the past 11 years she has worked in significant senior Government roles including being appointed the Northern Territory’s Chief Witness for the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse, and presenter to the Senate Enquiry (Nova Peris) into Out of Home Care. 

Recently, Simone has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer, Kambu Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Health (Kambu Health) covering Ipswich and West Moreton region. Simone’s career pathway has foundations in authenticity and courage.

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Katrina Lines

board member

Dr Katrina Lines is CEO of Act for Kids, a national not-for-profit organisation supporting children, young people and families. Katrina is a registered psychologist with more than 20 years’ experience delivering clinical and social services at the individual, organisational and community level. She has a PhD in child development and postgraduate qualifications in business, education and governance.

Prior to Act for Kids, Dr Lines practiced as a psychologist and worked as lecturer and researcher at James Cook University in Australia and Singapore. Katrina is an expert assessor for the Australian Research Council. She has served on not-for-profit boards and has experience in governance, leadership and risk management in organisations providing services to vulnerable children, young people and families.

Hawa Mohammed

Hawa Mohammed

board member

Hawa has attained a Bachelor of Laws (Hons I) / Bachelor of Communication (Social and Political Sciences) and is a graduate lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills.

Hawa is a former UNICEF Young Ambassador who, alongside her fellow Young Ambassadors, listened to over 3000 children and young people across Australia (both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic), to hear their concerns in areas including education, mental health, climate change, and discrimination. She has helped to author ‘Children’s Voices in a Changing World’ and presented the Report to Parliament in June 2021 in hopes of elevating childrens’ voices from all corners of the nation, particularly those disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

Hawa is a Youth Advisory Board Member on the Multicultural NSW Advisory Board, advising the Minister for Multiculturalism on community issues and initiatives surrounding diversity, inclusion, and cohesion. Hawa also sits on the Board of ARACY as a non-executive director.

Hawa migrated to Australia as a child and grew up in South-Western Sydney. She is passionate about child rights, policy and advocacy, and diversity and inclusion.

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Sara Parrott

BOARD MEMBER

Sara has over twenty-five years of experience in social and environmental impact, stakeholder relations, and communication.

Sara is Chief Executive Officer of Hand Heart Pocket, an independent charity and philanthropic foundation established by the Freemasons of Queensland with a history of helping the community for more than 110 years. She is also Deputy Chair of the Queensland Children’s Hospital Foundation and a Board Member of Climate KIC Australia.

Previously, Sara worked for listed companies Xstrata and Suncorp Group, leading sustainability and stakeholder relations nationally. Sara has also held executive roles in the community sector focused on advocacy, communications, and marketing including with Goodstart Early Learning and Tearfund Australia.

She holds a Bachelor of Business – Management and a Master of Business – Marketing from QUT and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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Geoff Woolcock

Board Member

Dr Geoffrey Woolcock is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland’s Institute for Resilient Regions, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast and Griffith University. He has 34 years of community-based research experience and has co-published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and community reports.

As a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD), he is a board director of the Brisbane Housing Company, the Australian National Development Index (ANDI), Basic Rights Queensland, TQKP and helped co-establish Logan Child-Friendly Community Ltd in 2012 overseeing the high-profile collective impact initiative, Logan Together.

He was the Australian member on the Asia-Pacific Child-Friendly Cities Network (2010-2013) and the inaugural Queensland convenor for ARACY from 2013-2014.