Ms Gabrielle Upton
BA LLB UNSW, MBA NYU, FAICD
Legal Counsel, Australian Institute of Company Directors
Gabrielle Upton was appointed Deputy Chancellor of the University of New South Wales in January 2006. She has been a member of the University’s Council since 2002 and also serves on its Finance, Nomination & Remuneration and Audit Committees.
Gabrielle is a Board member of the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute and the Duke of Edinburgh Awards. She also serves on the General Sir John Monash Foundation NSW Awards Committee and the Australian Defence Force Academy Consultative Committee.
She is Legal Counsel at the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Prior to that she worked in New York as an Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Bank and Toronto Dominion Bank, and in Sydney as a banking lawyer at Freehills and Phillips Fox. She is a member of the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC), the Federal Government’s principal advisory committee on corporations and securities law.
Gabrielle holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales, a Master of Business Administration from the Stern School of Business at New York University, New York. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a Company Directors Advanced Diploma from the organisation.