Claudia joined the Audit Office in January 2016 and was appointed to the role of Deputy Auditor-General in October 2024. Prior to this, for over 7 years, Claudia was Assistant Auditor-General Performance Audit, overseeing the delivery of more than 140 performance audit reports. Her leadership in this role has been instrumental in ensuring that parliamentarians are equipped with the information they need to hold government to account for its use of public resources. In her role as Deputy Auditor-General, Claudia’s role expands to encompass financial as well as systems assurance, cyber and data audits.

Claudia has a wealth of public sector managerial and senior leadership experience across a range of NSW and Commonwealth government agencies including the National Mental Health Commission, the COAG Reform Council, NSW Ministry of Health, and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Her work in reporting on the performance of governments has encompassed a diverse range of sectors including health system performance, disability, mental health, drug and alcohol issues, gender equity, Indigenous communities and housing. Claudia holds master’s degrees in public policy and public health, a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Kathrina was appointed NSW Public Service Commissioner in 2020. She has extensive public sector experience with both state and federal governments. She has held senior executive roles in various agencies, including the NSW Department of Communities and Justice, NSW Audit Office and NSW Information and Privacy Commission. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and a member of Chief Executive Women. Kathrina has qualifications in law and economics.

The NSW Public Service Commissioner will speak about the importance of practical, scalable and evidence-based strategies in strengthening integrity culture. She will share how the NSW Integrity Framework, leadership capability programs and sector-wide initiatives are helping to strengthen systems and culture, and equip NSW public servants to navigate ethical challenges. This session will also emphasise the need for public sector agencies to be psychologically safe, inclusive and values driven workplaces. Attendees will leave with actionable insights that strengthen trust, uplift capability and support their organisations to be exemplars in ethical public service delivery.

Lewis Rangott started his corruption prevention career at the Commission in 2003 as a senior corruption prevention officer and principal officer. He then held senior corruption prevention roles in the public and private sectors before being appointed to the position of Executive Director, Corruption Prevention, in May 2017. Mr Rangott is also a certified fraud examiner.

At the CPN 2026 Forum, Lewis will detail that when confronted with unethical conduct, staff may have to decide whether to “rock the boat” or tolerate the behaviour. Rocking the boat is often associated with whistleblowing activity, but it can also involve other acts of resistance. By reference to the ICAC’s 2026 Operation Landan report, this presentation will examine the pressure faced by employees who resisted behaviour that was later shown to be corrupt.

Rodney Smith is Professor of Australian Politics at the University of Sydney. Since the 1990s, he has researched aspects of corruption and its prevention in Australia, including codes of conduct, whistleblowing, integrity system design, and public attitudes towards corruption. He is currently part of an ARC-funded team researching the effects of guardrail institutions on public trust in Australia. He designed the University of Sydney’s postgraduate unit of study, Public Sector Ethics and Corruption, and taught it over many years.

Professor Smith will speak about ‘Corruption, Integrity Agencies and Public Trust in Australia’. What effects do integrity agencies have on public trust in Australian democracy? If they expose corruption, does this increase the public’s trust that politics and public administration is generally clean? Or does it confirm that public officials are just a bunch of untrustworthy crooks? Even worse, might wrongdoing findings by an integrity agency raise doubts among the public about whether that agency can be trusted? Does the specific design and operation of integrity agencies make any difference to public trust? This session will present recent national survey findings on these questions from the ARC-funded Discovery Project ‘Mapping & Harnessing Public Trust & Mistrust’.

Before his appointment as a Deputy Commissioner of the NACC, Dr Gauntlett was the Disability Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission. Deputy Commissioner Gauntlett has previously worked as a barrister in Western Australia and Victoria, as Counsel Assisting the Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth, an associate at the High Court of Australia, as a solicitor in a large commercial law firm and taught law in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Deputy Commissioner Gauntlett holds a Master of Laws from New York University and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Law from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Deputy Commissioner Gauntlett’s term of appointment as a Deputy Commissioner of the NACC is five years.

Dr Ana Estefanía Carballo is the Head of International Programmes at Transparency International Australia (TIA). She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne and prior to coming to Australia, completed her PhD at the University of Westminster in the UK and her MA at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany.

Dr Carballo has conducted extensive research on natural resources governance, particularly the lithium mining industry associated with the energy transition and has over 15 years of experience working with civil society organisations globally, but particularly in Latin America, Europe and the Asia- Pacific Region. She believes that strengthening natural resources governance is crucial to ensuring sustainable, accountable and equitable practices in the mining industry and is passionate about facilitating anti-corruption initiatives for the sector.

Kim Copeland is a leading expert in building trusted, accountable, corruption-resistant cultures. With a career spanning Australia and the UK, Kim has held clinical, operational, and executive leadership roles in government, military, higher education and community sectors. She is the Principal of Avyon Consulting, a specialist consultancy focused on creating cultures that support safety, trust and agency. Her clients include universities, government departments, corporate clients, and non-government organisations to strengthen governance, improve reporting and response systems, and embed trauma-informed, defensible practices.

Kim has extensive experience supporting organisations to navigate complex and sensitive matters, including workplace misconduct, gender-based violence, and cultural reform. Her work spans whole-of-organisation reviews, policy and procedure development, leadership advisory, and the design and delivery of training programs. She is particularly focused on translating legislative and regulatory requirements into everyday practice by helping organisations move beyond policy to build cultures where expectations are understood, enacted, and reinforced in real situations. Her approach emphasises early identification and response, supporting organisations to address risks before they escalate to formal complaints or breaches, and to create environments where people feel safe to speak up and confident in how concerns will be handled.

Jim is a career public servant having spent over 40 years working in the Qld Public Service. Jim has worked in ethical standards, integrity and governance roles for the past 30 years currently works at the Office of the Queensland Integrity Commissioner and has also worked for the Queensland Ombudsman’s Office.

Jim has a broad range of experience in areas of public administration including education, corrections. Ombudsman, primary industries, economic development, infrastructure, planning and local government. Jim has a strong passion for preventing fraud and corruption and for ethical public administration.

Huon is Head of External Affairs at CI-ISAC Australia, the country’s only cross-sector critical infrastructure cyber threat intelligence sharing organisation. He leads government relations, policy advocacy, and strategic partnerships, and has grown CI-ISAC’s health sector membership across some of Australia’s most systemically critical organisations, including major financial institutions and national infrastructure operators across multiple states and territories.

Holding a PhD in International Political Economy, Huon bridges technical and policy worlds – contributing to national conversations on AI governance, supply chain resilience (including through the Home Affairs Supply Chain Resilience Expert Advisory Group), and the reform of Australia’s critical infrastructure security frameworks. He is a regular commentator on the intersection of cyber threat intelligence, regulatory design, and cross-sector collaboration.

Chris works closely with corporate clients, law firms, and boards to identify, manage, and respond to data risk across the entire lifecycle, from proactive governance and compliance through to complex investigations and breach response. Whether advising on data maturity uplift programs, leading forensic investigations, preparing for regulatory scrutiny, or navigating the challenges of AI and information integrity, Chris brings pragmatic, proportionate solutions that align risk mitigation with business objectives. Chris’ clients rely on him to simplify the complex, drive defensible outcomes, and get things done, especially when timelines are tight and the stakes are high.