Dr Helen Szoke has had a career spanning community, health, education, regulation and international development. She is a strong advocate for human rights and has extensive experience in management, advocacy and public presentations. She is a non-executive Director, currently sitting on the Council of the University of Melbourne, the Board of Life Without Barriers. Helen is co-chair of the Collingwood Expert Advisory Group on Anti-Racism, advisory committee member of the Climate Project Griffith University, member of the Expert Panel to Indigenous Business Australia and is an independent member of the Judicial Commission of Victoria. She sits on Advisory Boards for the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Australia and New Zealand Obstetrics and Gynaecology which are addressing bullying, discrimination and harassment in those medical specialities. Helen also led the Review into Sexual Harassment in Victorian Courts. She was the inaugural Chair of You Matter, an independent charity supporting women who are relocated following domestic violence.
She is a mother and stepmother to eight children and shares grandparenting of seven grandchildren with her husband Jonathan Tribe.