Simon Molesworth OA KC

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Director (since 2016)
Chair of Governance Committee (since 2020)

King’s Counsel

Simon is a practising King’s Counsel, specialising in environmental, planning, heritage, natural resource and climate change law. He was a Judge of the Land & Environment Court of NSW from January 2017-May 2019 and has served as a Senior Legal Member of both the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Victoria, and the previous Victorian Planning Appeals Board.  He has also been the Victorian State Mining Warden. Simon has been a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at Monash University and previously was an Adjunct Professor of La Trobe University’s La Trobe Institute for Social & Environmental Sustainability.

Simon has been appointed a fellow of six professional institutes, including being a Fellow of both the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Leaders and Management, reflecting his leadership experience on numerous boards and management committees, including 16 corporations, of which 3 were listed on the ASX. With an experience extending over 40 years of community leadership and corporate governance, in 1994 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia and in 2003 the Australian Government awarded him the Centenary Medal. In 2012 Simon was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for “distinguished service to conservation and the environment, to heritage preservation at national and international levels, to the professions and natural resource sectors, and to community health organisations”. 

Since acquiring a rural property in the Broken Hill District, Simon has been active in regional community affairs. He was, in partnership with others, instrumental in the nomination of the City of Broken Hill to the Commonwealth’s National Heritage List, which was achieved in January 2015. He is President of Landcare Broken Hill, Patron of the Broken Hill Historical Society, Committee Member of Broken Hill Council’s Heritage Advisory Committee and Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery Advisory Committee. Previously he was Deputy Chairman of the Far West Regional Advisory Committee to the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service and a member of Broken Hill City Council’s Living Museum and Perfect Light Steering Committee.