ICDP Foundation Board
The ICDP Foundation is governed by a highly connected team of professionals with experience across government, commercial, academic and non-profit sectors.
Andrew Carriline
Chair
Andrew is an experienced business executive, commercially astute and highly skilled at operating in regulated environments. After a long career at Westpac, he now follows his passions across financial inclusion, technology disruption and support for the Pacific through roles in the ‘for profit’ and ‘not for profit’ sectors. Among other roles, Andrew is an Ambassador of ICDP, Chair of the ICDP Foundation, and Non-Executive Director of Kina Securities Limited and Bluestone Group of companies. He is also a Non-executive director at not for profits Human Rights Law Centre. He holds degrees in Law and Commerce from the University of New South Wales, is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company of Directors and is an accredited coach and facilitator.
Peter Fritz AO
Peter Fritz AO is Group Managing Director of TCG – a diverse group of Australian-owned private companies which over the last fifty years have produced many breakthrough discoveries in computer and communication technologies. Peter chairs several government and private enterprise boards and has represented Australia on the OECD Small and Medium-Size Enterprise Committee.
Catherine Fritz-Kalish AM
Catherine is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Global Access Partners (GAP), an independent not-for-profit institute for active policy. She is also Chair of the Fritz Family Foundation supporting early childhood education in Australia, and has recently joined the board of neuroscience institute NeuRA. She is also a member of the advisory board for the Social Impact Hub, and was previously Chair and Board member of social justice charity Stand Up. Catherine is a director of ICDP.
Hon Christopher Pyne
Christopher is a retired Australian Liberal Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Sturt from 1993 to 2019. He served as the Leader of the House and held Education, Industry, Innovation and Science, and Defence portfolios. In June 2019, Christopher was appointed as an industry professor at the University of South Australia Business School. He is the author of two books – “A Letter to my Children” (2015) and “The Insider” (2020) and the podcast Pyne Time.
Dr Ian Watt AC
Dr Watt has had a long career as one of Australia’s most distinguished public servants, with nearly 20 years at the highest levels of the public service, including Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Dr Watt is Chair of ICDP and the ADC Advisory Council. Dr Watt is also a Member of the Male Champions of Change, a Member of the Melbourne School of Government Advisory Board at the University of Melbourne, a Fellow of ANZSOG and IPAA, and Senior Adviser to Flagstaff Partners. Dr Watt completed an Independent Review of the Tasmanian State Service in July 2021, the first in several decades. Dr Watt was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2016. Dr Watt also holds Honorary Doctorates of Letters from the University of Technology Sydney and from the University of Wollongong.