Business and Community Involvement
With a background in commercial law and investment banking, Turnbull is a Director of Turnbull & Partners Pty. Ltd, a private investment company. She chairs ASX listed biotechnology company Prima Biomed Limited.
She has a longstanding interest in cities and their planning, governance and management. as well as the importance of technological innovation to the national economy.
She is an independent member of the Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority, which is charged with the urban renewal and revitalisation of several precincts in Sydney, including Redfern-Waterloo. From 2004-2011 was an independent member of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority from its establishment until its repeal in December 2011. Since 2005 she has been a board member of the Australian Technology Park, Redfern.
Since July 2010 she has been deputy chair of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) City Expert Advisory Panel, which reports to the COAG Reform Council. The Expert Panel has been charged with preparing the report published on 1 March 2012, advising COAG Reform Council on whether metropolitan planning systems are consistent with agreed COAG criteria.
In 1999 she published a book 'Sydney-Biography of a City'.
Lucy Turnbull has also been active in the not-for-profit sector and is currently a member of the board of the U.S. Studies Centre at Sydney University, the Biennale of Sydney, the Redfern Foundation Limited and the Turnbull Foundation. She is also a board member of the NSW Cancer Institute.
She has previously chaired the Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation, the Sydney Cancer Centre and the Sydney Festival Limited. From 2006-2010 she was a board member of Melbourne IT and before that a board member of WebCentral Limited.
On 26 January 2011, Turnbull was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for her distinguished service to the community, particularly through philanthropic contributions to, and fundraising support for, a range of medical, social welfare, educational, youth and cultural organisations, to local government, and to business.
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