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Marlene
Kanga
Non-Executive Director
Sydney Water Corporation
President World Federation
of Engineering Organisations
“As a leader the most important
thing you’ve got to be able
to do is to walk away, to set
things up and leave it to others
to carry your vision. I think
if you are able to do that
you are a successful leader.
So it’s not about you, it’s about
the outcomes.”
Throughout her 40 year career, Dr Marlene Kanga AM
has promoted the power of engineering to change
lives, and has been a strong advocate for women
in the STEAM fields. As President of Engineers
Australia (2013), Dr Kanga was the second woman
in 97 years to hold the position. As President,
World Federation of Engineering Organisations,
she represents 30 million engineers from 100
national and international professional engineering
institutions. Non-executive director at Air Services
Australia, Business Events Sydney and the Hearing
Co-operative Research Centre, Dr Kanga is Board
Advisor to Innovation Science Australia, and Chair
of the Department of Industry Innovation and
Science R&D Incentive Committee. She is also
a director of iOmniscient Pty Ltd., a leader of
intelligent video analytic technologies.
Dr Kanga was the first Australian to be made
an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Chemical
Engineers (UK) as well as an Honorary Fellow
of Engineers Australia, and the first Australian and
first woman to be made a Foreign Fellow of the
ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology.
She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute
of Company Directors. Dr Kanga was named
a Top 100 Women of Influence by the Australian
Financial Review (2013) and the Federation
of Engineers in Asia and the Pacific’s Professional
Engineer of the Year (2014), the first woman
so awarded. She was appointed a Member of the
Order of Australia in 2014.
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