Mr Phillip Adams AO (Chairperson) writer, broadcaster, filmmaker. Adams' long association with South Australia began when he devised the South Australian Film Commission for Don Dunstan in the early 70's and helped to establish the Ideas Festival in the 90's. He was on the National Advisory Board of the Adelaide Festival and is married to Adelaide-born author Patrice Newell. Adams was the Foundation Chairman of the Commission for the Future (established by Hawke's Minister for Science Barry Jones) and chairs the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney and the ANU.
Honours include two Orders of Australia, four honorary doctorates and HREOC's Human Rights Medal in 2008. He has also received Australia's top honours in journalism, broadcasting and filmmaking. The International Astronomic Society has named a large asteroid (or ‘a small planet') in his honour. He was designated a Living National Treasure by the National Trust and was elected an Honorary Fellow of The Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2008.
Described by Robert Manne as 'the most remarkable broadcaster in the history of this country' Adams presents Late Night Live twice a day across the 250 station network of the ABC's Radio National and around the world via Radio Australia and pod-cast. During his 50-year career Adams’ writings have appeared in most major Australian newspapers and journals, and in major papers around the world. He currently writes for the national newspaper, The Australian.
Emeritus Professor Anne Edwards AO (Deputy Chair) is a sociologist who has spent her career in universities, most recently at Flinders University, where she was Vice-Chancellor from 2001 to 2007. Her academic interests include social inequality, social control, the modern state, social policy, ageing, women and gender issues and she has worked with governments and non-government organisations on a range of social policy issues. Among her current activities are membership of various South Australian boards and national bodies, including the Art Gallery of SA Board, COTA (SA) and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and she is currently Co-Chair of the Premier’s Council for Women in SA. 
Monsignor David Cappo AO is a Catholic Priest and social policy leader. He established South Australia’s first Social Inclusion Board and was appointed as Chair – a role he continues to hold. In 2006, Monsignor was appointed Commissioner for Social Inclusion. Monsignor Cappo was made an Officer in the Order of Australia in the 2007 Australia Day Honours. In 2008 he was appointed vice-Chair of the Australian Social Inclusion Board, and is an independent Adviser for the Executive Committee of State Cabinet and also is a member of the Economic Development Board of South Australia. He is a former National Director of the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission, he has – and continues to make – major contributions to national social policy development.
Ms Tanya Hosch is a consultant working on a range of Indigenous specific and broader social policy areas across Australia, and has a particular interest in the area of philanthropy and co-investment and community corporate partnerships as a model of progressing our social agenda. Her expertise is in Indigenous affairs, youth development and leadership development. In addition, Tanya serves as a Director on the Rio Tinto Aboriginal Foundation; is a Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Technology, Sydney; is a Director for the International Funders of Indigenous Peoples based in North America and the Aboriginal Advisory Committee to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Tanya is also an advisor to Social Ventures Australia.
Ms Robyn McLeod is South Australia’s first Independent Commissioner for Water Security responsible for ensuring South Australia’s long-term fresh water supplies meet the State’s social, economic and environmental needs.
As Executive Director of Major Projects for the Victorian Government, and most recently as Director of KPMG’s National Water Group, Robyn has gained considerable expertise in the development and delivery of sustainable water supply strategies and innovative infrastructure projects in the areas of water recycling, desalination, irrigation modernisation and conservation measures.
A former advisor to both the Tasmanian and Western Australian Governments on water reform, Robyn has a wealth of experience and knowledge in water issues throughout Australia and overseas and the challenges we face in a future of reduced water availability.
Mr Martin Stewart Weeks is the Director for IBSG's public sector practice in Asia-Pacific for CISCO. In his consulting work over the past 18 years, he has specialised in strategy, policy analysis, facilitation and market and social research. At Cisco, he works at the senior executive and political level to help shape Internet business solutions and online strategies at both an agency and whole-of-government level. Martin has been a key member of the global team developing a new e-government framework, the ‘connected republic', for Cisco's public sector work. Martin also chairs the Australian Social Innovation Exchange (ASIX).
Dr Helena Williams is currently the Chief Executive of the General Practice Network South and a practising GP. She has experience working in Aboriginal Health and sexual assault services. In 2002 Helena was appointed by the South Australian Minister for Health to the South Australian Generational Health Review Committee, which handed in its review of the South Australian Health System in 2003. As a result of the ensuing regionalisation of the SA Health system, Helena was appointed to the Board of the Southern Adelaide Health Service, for which she also chaired the Population Health and Health Reform Committee. Helena is currently a member of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Mr Tim Zak is Executive Director, Carnegie-Mellon University's Heinz College of Public Policy and Management branch in Adelaide and Co- Director of the University’s Institute for Social Innovation.
Prior to heading up the ISI, Tim was the CEO of the Social Innovation Accelerator, a private operating foundation originally established as a non-profit. The role of the Accelerator was to support the development of earned-income ventures and innovative solutions to social issues by nonprofits, and to establish the Pittsburgh region as a leader in social enterprise and innovation.
He is a former board member of the Coordinated Care Network, a globally recognized social enterprise, and the Social Enterprise Alliance, North America's leading membership organization for advocates, investors, and practitioners of non-profit earned-income initiatives.
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