AESOC Members

Council is primarily supported by a group of senior officials comprising of Directors General, Secretaries and/or Chief Executives with responsibility for school education and/or early childhood who meet as the Australian Education Senior Officials Committee (AESOC).

	TAS (Chair) Ms Jenny Gale Secretary Department of Education		SA Mr Rick Persse Chief Executive Department for Education and Child Development
	ACT Ms Natalie Howson Director-General Education and Training Directorate		NT Ms Vicki Baylis Chief Executive Department of Education
	AG Dr Michele Bruniges AM Secretary Education and Training		VIC Ms Gill Callister Secretary Department of Education and Training
	NSW Mr Mark Scott Secretary Department of Education and Communities		WA Ms Sharyn O’Neill Director-General Department of Education
	QLD Dr Jim Watterston Director-General Department of Education and Training		WA Ms Jennifer Mathews Director-General Department of Local Government and Communities
	WA Mr Richard Strickland Director-General Department of Education Services Ministry of Education		NZ Ms Iona Holsted Secretary for Education Ministry of Education
	ACT Mr David Dawes Director-General Economic Development Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate