Speakers Profile - Amanda Rischbieth AM FAICD PhD








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Adelaide

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Amanda has over 28 years of directorships including an ASX-listed board. She received a Member of the Order of Australia award in 2023.

She is a member of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Coalition Advisory Board and is a Global Board Director with the International Women’s Forum (8,500 members across 37 countries), and is IWF Australia President.

Amanda chairs Sailias Technology and leads bespoke board advisory on AI/governance/climate/cyber/health. She is an AICD Fellow and a Clinical Associate Professor at Adelaide University.

With an eight year Harvard affiliation including Advanced Leadership Fellow (’17), Visiting Scientist Harvard Chan School of Public Health (‘18-’22), Impact Leader (’24), Research Fellow (’25), she also won a gold award at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AI Venture Studio, and has since founded AI technology platforms.

Amanda continues to be at the cutting edge of leadership, governance and technology, and recently attended a closed global roundtable at the Vatican on AI and Business Ethics.
 
Earlier in her career, she co-led an Intensive Care Unit for 10 year after retrievals of critically ill patients by road ambulance, helicopter, and fixed-wing aircraft. Her PhD included a novel decision-support system that successfully reduced adverse events by 80% in the ICU.
 
Amanda is a former Telstra Business Women’s Award Finalist in two categories. In 2018 she travelled to Sri Lanka with the Hands-On humanitarian group fitting 247 prosthetic hands to landmine victims.