"Looking at Western Australia from the UK and Europe"

Join AmCham as we hear from former Agent General Kerry Sanderson AO, as she comments on her time in London and her impressions of Perth since returning. 

Kerry Sanderson AO is currently on the boards of listed companies Downer EDI and Atlas Iron as well as St John of God Health Care. She participates in a number of charitable and community activities including the Advisory Council for the Curtin University Business School. 
From 2008 until 2011 Kerry held the post of Agent General for Western Australia and resided in the UK promoting and representing the State in the UK and Europe. From 1991 until 2008 she was Chief Executive Officer of Fremantle Ports at a time when the Port underwent substantial change. 
Before 1991 Kerry was Deputy Director General of Transport for Western Australia and with the State Treasury as Director of Treasury’s Economic and Financial Policy Division. 
 Kerry was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2004 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. She was the inaugural inductee to the Lloyds List Shipping and Transport Hall of Fame, and she received an Export Hero award from the Australian Institute of Export in 2008. She has degrees in both science and in economics from the University of Western Australia and in 2005 was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.