Pamela Hass

Pamela Hass held a variety of senior legal positions before joining Curtin University as general counsel where she established the university's first in-house legal service providing advice in administrative law, governance, intellectual property, dispute resolution, contract/commercial law and property law. She then moved to Sydney where she worked as general counsel at Macquarie University and returned to Perth in 2008 as university secretary, director of governance and special legal counsel at The University of Western Australia. In 2010, Ms Hass moved from the university sector to the Department of State Development as principal legal counsel, legal and commercial strategy, where she heads a small in-house legal team working on the State's major resources projects. Ms Hass holds a Bachelor's degree in Law (with honours), a Masters in Law, and an Arts degree. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, an elected member of the Council of the Law Society of WA, and a board member of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. She was also the first national president of the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association from WA.