The Advisory Committee contributes to the vision articulated in The National Cultural Policy: REVIVE by exploring impact investing as an effective tool in building a more sustainable arts and cultural sector. It will do so by drawing on the skills and experience of its members in capability building, business models and investment structures, social impact measurement and investment fund development. 

Committee members 

Rosemary Addis AM, Mondiale Impact (Chair)  

Rosemary Addis is a globally recognised director and strategist at the forefront of innovation and investment for impact.  She has led design and execution of ground-breaking investment vehicles, policy and pioneering organisations shaping market transformation for a more positive, sustainable future.   

Rosemary founded Mondiale Impact in 2022 with colleagues to support and challenge leaders in boardrooms and beyond to confront the new governance realities of our complex cotemporary context.  She founded strategy firm Impact Strategist in 2003 and has advised and led on groundbreaking strategies with clients including the World Banking Group, United Nations Development Programme, OECD Social Impact Investing Initiative, the World Economic Forum, governments and from major banks to institutional investors, corporations and foundations.    

Rosemary has a GP interest in impact private equity firm Sweef Capital and serves as Global Advisor, impact markets and strategies.  She was appointed Enterprise Professor Impact, Sustainability and Innovation at the University of Melbourne in 2022 and Industry Professor at University College London in 2023.  Rosemary Chairs University of Melbourne’s flagship initiative, Melbourne Climate Futures and its Sustainable Finance Hub and Chairs advisory bodies focused on transforming outcomes in areas as diverse as creative and cultural sector, one health including anti-microbial resistance and road safety.  She is a Global Ambassador for GSG Impact.    

Rosemary’s strategic leadership spans public, private and multi-lateral settings and over 20 years of Board experience.  This builds on a global legal career ranked as one of the world’s leading lawyers (Chambers Global).  Her 35+ year track record includes bringing new investment funds to market, advising top 100 companies and investment firms, leading major national productivity and financial policy reforms, driving policy innovation as Social Innovation Strategist for the Australian Government and shaping game changing multi-lateral strategies and initiatives including as a member of the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce, Trustee of GSG Impact and inaugural chair of its global governance committee, and Founding Chair of Impact Investing Australia (Market Builder of the Year 2018 and 2020).    

In 2020 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and has also been recognised as an inaugural Sorenson Impact Leader (2021), by Women in Finance ranking among top thought leaders (2017), Australia’s 100 Women of Influence for contributions to innovation (2015) and by Chambers Global as one of the world’s leading lawyers (2002 and 2003).  

Rosemary’s work is published widely and is the subject of international case studies.  She has an LLB (Hons 1st Class, 1990), New York Bar (1995), Company Directors’ Diploma (2002). 

Ingrid Albert, Executive Director, Alberts

Ingrid is executive director and member of the fifth generation at Alberts, an Australian family business that has backed pioneers since 1885 and has a mission to create a vibrant and sustainable future for all. Alberts is involved in a diverse range of activities including impact investing, philanthropy, advocacy, and collaboration. 

Ingrid leads marketing across the business and is head of The Tony Foundation, which partners with pioneers harnessing the transformative power of music to improve life outcomes for young Australians. The Foundation embraces a responsible investment approach across its corpus through multiple strategies, including positive and negative screens, stewardship, impact investing, and catalytic investing. Ingrid is also involved with Alberts Impact Ventures, investing in early-stage start-ups addressing equality, healthy minds, sustainable environment, and vibrant culture – four impact themes incorporated across Alberts' operations. 

Prior to Alberts, she built her strategy and marketing career working locally and internationally in Switzerland and Dubai for FMCG company CPW (a joint venture between Nestlé and General Mills). 

An Alberts board director and Foundation investment committee member, Ingrid is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and is a committee member of Philanthropy Australia's Foundations Group for Impact Investing.

Leah Armstrong, Managing Director, Core Insights Advisory Services 

Leah, a Torres Strait Islander, is a senior professional with over 30 year’s business and not for profit experience and is currently the Interim Director at the Centre for Indigenous Economic Transformation at the Australian National University. 

Leah has played a pivotal role in national Indigenous affairs and currently serves on several Committees including member of the First Nations Trade and Investment Advisory Group, an Australian co-representative of the Indigenous Peoples Economic and Trade Co-operation Arrangement (IPETCA) Partnership Council, Creative Australia Impact Investment Advisory Committee, and member of the First Nations Economic Empowerment Alliance. 

Leah previously held positions as co-founder/Chair of First Australians Capital, CEO of Reconciliation Australia, Director of Indigenous Business Australia, and Chair of Supply Nation. She was a member of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council. 

Cathy Hunt AM, Independent Consultant and Board Director 

Cathy is a successful cultural sector consultant and business woman with over 30 years’ experience providing advice to governments, architects, planners, artists and arts and cultural organisations in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, as the co-founder of Positive Solutions.   

Throughout her career Cathy has also focused on researching and implementing new models for additional funding and financing into the cultural economy, from an early engagement with the ‘Banking on Culture’ initiative in Europe (1990s) to creating the QuickstART, interest free loan program for artists (2000s) as a member of the New Models New Money team (2008-2012) an advisor to the $1 million Arts Business Innovation Fund (ABIF), (2015-17) as well as regularly writing on the topic.  

Formerly a festival producer in the UK, Cathy returned to that role in 2014, bringing the global WOW (Women of the World) Festival movement to Australia. Cathy has been the Executive Producer of WOW events in Australia for the last 10 years, is an advisor to the global WOW Foundation in London and is the Executive Chair of non-profit company Of One Mind, the driving force behind WOW in Australia. 

Cathy is a Board Director of Screen Queensland, an activator in the global women founder’s investment movement,Coralus, and in 2023 became a Member of the Order of Australia for her services to the arts, culture and women.  

Danielle Logue, Director, Centre for Social Impact UNSW 

Professor Danielle Logue has over 20 years of experience in social innovation across research, industry innovation policy and programs, and for-purpose organisations in Australia and in the Asia Pacific. She is currently Professor of Innovation & Impact at UNSW Business School, and Director of the Centre for Social Impact, UNSW. 

Professor Logue is a global leader in social innovation and social impact research and analysis, and has published widely on how enterprises, communities, governments, and markets engage in processes of social innovation and investment. Recent projects investigate new forms of organising, governing, and financing to address social and environmental problems including impact investing, civic crowdfunding platforms, social stock exchanges, social impact bonds, gender-lens investing, place-based investing, and social enterprises. Prior professional experience includes industry and innovation policy, business and international development for organisations such as the World Bank and Australian Federal and State Departments of Industry. She is a Research Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and completed a Doctorate of Philosophy and Master of Science at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.  

Sally McCutchan, CFO, WEHI 

Sally is the CFO of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, (WEHI).  She was formerly the Chief Asset Management Officer of Breakthrough Victoria, a Victorian government funded entity focused on impactful Venture Capital Investment. She was a founding partner and the inaugural CEO of Bridges Australia, an affiliate of a global leader in impact investing, Bridges Fund Management and CEO of Impact Investing Australia. She has extensive experience in finance, funds management and strategy, and has spent many years working in and understanding Asia Pacific markets. She has held senior roles with Accenture, JP Morgan Investment Management and SBC Warburg (now UBS).  

Sally has held a number of non-executive director positions.  She is currently on the Board of: E&P Financial Group, WEHI Ventures and PNGSDP. The latter is focused on using returns from a large long term fund to provide health, education and livelihood support for the people of the Western Province of PNG.  She was a member of the expert panel of the Australian Social Impact Investing Taskforce in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative Working Group for mobilising capital.  

Sally is a Certified Practising Accountant and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and was recognised in 2020 with an Order of Australia award for her work in ethical investment. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Accounting and Finance and a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University.   

Rajiv Viswanathan, Managing Director, Adamantem Capital   

Rajiv Viswanathan is a Managing Director of Adamantem Capital with a focus on investment in environmental opportunities, including decarbonisation and natural capital. He has worked across the private, public and social impact sectors in Sydney, New York and London.  

From 2016 to 2020, Rajiv was Chief Executive Officer of Indigenous Business Australia (IBA), a commercially focused statutory corporation with $2 billion in assets, and from 2012-2016 ran IBA’s investment portfolio, which comprised over $400 million invested across diversified funds and direct investments in real assets, renewable energy, tourism, agribusiness and other sectors. From 2004 to 2012, Rajiv worked at Macquarie Group in New York and Sydney, and prior to that worked for several years as a corporate lawyer with Slaughter & May in London and Allens in Sydney.  

Rajiv sits on the boards of Evnex & Ecoware, and he also sits on the boards of Life Without Barriers and First Nations Foundation. He has a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney.