✦ Margot Foster Am Oly ✦ Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Monaco

The Election Oversight Panel (EOP) has been established by the IAAF to oversee and monitor the conduct of candidates for election to the IAAF Council and Executive Board to ensure high standards of probity, honesty and respect for fellow candidates, the election process itself, and the IAAF. The Panel has a membership of 5, including me, with the others from India, South Africa, England and Belgium. It is an honour to chair this Panel as we work towards the IAAF elections in Doha in September 2019.

Melbourne, Australia

Motorsport Australia is the peak body for the regulation of motor sport in Australia. I am pleased to work with some wonderful men, and since 2019 two women, on the board to promote 4 wheeled motor sport for the many people for whom it is a passion. I was thrilled to be elected the first ever woman Vice President for 2020.I am equally pleased that Motorsport Australia has established the Australian Women's Motor Sport Commission which works with the Board to provide opportunities for participation in all facets of the sport by women and girls, and to recognise their achievements in the same settings as their male counterparts. I am the board-appointed portfolio holder for this Commission.I am a member of the Governance Committee and Nominations Committee.

Melbourne, Australia

Talk the Talk Consulting provides a range of services to business and to people.I use all the knowledge and experience I have acquired through my years as a lawyer, as a board member, as a former elite athlete and now through my consulting services, to deliver service where excellence is the aim.🔷 Boardroom and governance services for business ☑️ Director training about obligations and responsibilities through conversation and story-telling ☑️ Leadership training for chairmen ☑️ Foundation and corporate document review, drafting and preparation ☑️ Whole of organisation reviews ☑️ Dispute resolution including mediation🔶 I work with my clients to design processes to meet their needs and expectations. My approach is collaborative, realistic and flexible.🔶 I know that governance info can go in one ear and out the other so my programmes are designed for participation, contribution and story-telling with as little "talking-at" people as possible🔶 Words are my thing so everything I write will be in plain English, no jargon, and will require no interpretation by readers: jargon begone!🔷 For people I offer ☑️ One on one mentoring for members of boards ☑️ Career conversations for those looking to join boards ☑️ Guidance on navigating life on a board and the tips and tricks to make it as easy as possible ☑️ Mediation and dispute resolution🔶 My time is flexible🔶 I can meet in person, by phone and online🔶 I am ready when youPlease contact me on mf@talk-the-talk.com.au or 0414230213 at any time.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Albert Park

Vicsport is the independent member-based organisation representing Victoria’s sport and active recreation sector. Our Mission is to lead the sport, active recreation and associated health agendas into the future.During my term as Chairman from 2012 to 2017 Vicsport transformed itself from being a deliverer of programmes and services for Sport & Recreation Victoria and VicHealth to a major influence in sports policy in Victoria. As Victoria’s peak body for sport and active recreation Vicsport represents the needs and concerns of over 170 member groups to Government, statutory authorities, relevant businesse and private enterprises and stakeholders with an interest in promoting sport and active recreation.Our members include State Sport Associations and active recreation organisations, Regional Sport Assemblies, Local Governments Authorities, university, TAFE and school sport groups, and organisations representing specific sub-groups of the sector such as the Victorian Disability Sport Advisory Council, ACHPER (Vic), and the Australian Drug Foundation.Through our extensive network Vicsport supports over 16,000 clubs and associations, and over 1.8m participants, workers and volunteers in the sport and active industry sector across Victoria. Vicsport's key roles are to: - Advocate,- Inform policy development- Facilitate program delivery- Build Member Capacity- Research http://vicsport.com.au/

Melbourne Cricket Club Melbourne

Carlton

The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) is a pioneer in health promotion – the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.Our primary focus is promoting good health and preventing chronic disease.We create and fund world-class interventions. We conduct vital research to advance Victoria’s population health. We produce and support public campaigns to promote a healthier Victoria. We provide transformational expertise and insights to government.Of all the things we do, above all we seek to make health gains among Victorians by pre-empting and targeting improvements in health across our population, fostered within the day-to-day spaces where people spend their time, and with benefits to be enjoyed by all.Strategic imperativesVicHealth's Action Agenda for Health Promotion 2013–2023 focuses on five strategic imperatives with associated goals and three-year priorities.- promoting healthy eating- encouraging regular physical activity- preventing tobacco use- preventing harm from alcohol- improving mental wellbeingThese priorities are consistent with VicHealth’s obligations under the Tobacco Act of 1987. They also align with State Government policy and program directions, and national and international health promotion priorities and policies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) charters and declarations for Health Promotion.https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/

Parkville Victoria

I served on the Board of Trinity College from 1997 to 2006 looking after the College's growth as to student welfare and amenity and infradtructure improvement. I became a member of the committee of the Union of the Fleur de Lys upon its reestablishment in 2007 after some years in hiatus. . The role of the committee is to auspice events to encourage alumni to be and remain associated with Trinity College. Several events are held each year including the Drinks Under the Oak. Every 5 years a gala dinner is held the most recent being in 2012 for the 140th anniversary of the college's founding. I was chairman of the Union Fleur de Lys from 2012to 2015 initiating major change by having the Union report directly to the Warden of the College who attends meetings, establishing alumni pages in the quarterly magazine Trinity Today and ensuring that certain College events and activities were cobranded with the Union and the College.

Brisbane Qld

In 2007 I became the first non university-employed person to be voted on to the board of Australian University Sport. I brought with me various skills and experiences from my days as an elite athlete, a university student, lawyer and sports administrator to round out the capacity of AUS to deliver sport programmes and experiences to university students. The Healthy Body Healthy Mind approach were the guiding principles by which the organisation operated. My term on the board was for a period of 2 years until 2009.Subsequent to my time on the board I became chairman of the World University Games fundraising committee and thereafter a member of the Finance, Audit & Risk Management committee the latter having oversight of finance, organisation and event risks.

Melbourne

I initially served on the board of Rowing Victoria for some years in the 1990s. I made a return for some 18 months concluding in December 2014. I sought to improve the governance and accountability structures and ensure that the board was focussed in its deliberations on strategic matters as opposed to operational matters and always had regard to the future of the sport in the highly competitive world of sport when everyone has so many more choices about how they spend their time and their money.

Melbourne, Australia

As chair for the conference programme committee for this women and sport conference, the first independently organised such conference for 20 years, my role was to provide the organisers with a workable programme of interest to men and women in sport and in the business of sport. I devised the themes for the conference - the 5Ms being Media, Marketing, Men, Money and Members - and drafted the programme covering these themes with catchy session titles which were adopted by the advisory committee and organisers.

St Kilda, Australia

i started my role as a director with Gymnastics Australia and ended it some 10 years later being not much more aware of the intricacies of the sport than when i started. There were many board members for whom gymnastics ran in their blood and their experience and knowledge was invaluable in formulating the direction for the sport. My focus was on the good governance of the organisation including constitution reviews, board paper and policy document structure and content, strategic thinking and best practice in all things.

South Melbourne

Canberra

The NZ government sought to reorganise the 2 bodies which ran NZ sport into one single organisation. An approach was made to the Australian Minister for Sport for suggested names of people who had sport experience and could be suitable to be appointed to the revamped NZ entity. I was selected and contributed my experience as lawyer, athlete and member of the Australian Sports Commission over monthly meetings for two very interesting years. No other Australian has been appointed to NZ Sport since.

Wellington New Zealand

Lausanne Switzerland

Melbourne, Australia

The Flinders Park (now Melbourne Park) Trust and Olympic Park Trusts were run as separate entities until combined as the Melbourne & Olympic Parks Trust in 1998. Each of the entities was responsible for the management of their respective facilities and grounds. The tennis centre and environs was the domain of the former and the old Olympic Park ground and the former Olympic swimming pool the domain of the latter.

Burwood Victoria

Melbourne

A member of the board charged with seeking the IOC nomination of Melbourne as the host city for the 1996 Olympic Games which were ultimately allocated to Atlanta.

Company Directors' Course & Chairmen'S Course, Governance And Leadership

Law/Arts, Law, First Class Honours In Economic History

Sports Law Course

Mba, Undertook One Year Of Course

Hsc, Distinction In English

Ba Llb