The Hon Trish White AM FAICD HonFIEAust

Deputy Chair, Playford Memorial Trust

Trish’s executive career arose from her professional engineering background. She was a senior executive with WorleyParsons (ASX:WOR, engineering services in global resources and energy), then took up interim CEO roles for technology and manufacturing companies through her company, Slingsby Taylor.

Her earlier engineering career involved leading national infrastructure projects, as well as in defence at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation.

Time in Canberra exposed Trish to political decision-making and after moving to Adelaide in 1990, she became an MP in 1994 and subsequently a Minister in the SA Government. Her portfolios included Transport, Urban Development & Planning, Education, and Science & Information Economy.

After a 15-year political career Trish returned to private industry. She now has a portfolio of non-executive board roles and consultancies in the transport and logistics, manufacturing, energy and space sectors. Much of her consultancy work is at the intersection of industry, university research and government.

In 2019, Trish was awarded a Doctor of the University of Adelaide (hc) and was made a Fellow of the University of South Australia.  In 2021, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for “significant service to engineering and to the people and parliament of South Australia”.