Our team

Christine Castley is the Chief Executive Officer of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), leading the Agency’s work to advance gender equality in Australian workplaces through data insights, education and employer engagement.

Christine has held senior executive leadership roles across government and the community sector, with extensive experience delivering organisational reform, public policy and community outcomes. Prior to joining WGEA, she was CEO of Multicultural Australia and previously served as Deputy Director-General in the Queensland Departments of the Premier and Cabinet and Housing and Public Works.  She has led major reform initiatives in areas including domestic and family violence, housing, integrity and governance, disaster recovery and community services. Christine also led the Secretariat for Queensland’s landmark Not Now, Not Ever report, which underpinned significant reforms to address domestic and family violence.

At WGEA, Christine is focused on supporting workplaces where people can participate fully, contribute meaningfully and thrive. She believes gender equality is both a social and economic imperative, and that inclusive workplace cultures are fundamental to Australia’s productivity, resilience and future workforce participation.

Christine holds a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Public Administration and has extensive board experience across the community, arts and public sectors.

Janette supports the CEO to manage the Agency and effectively perform its statutory functions.

Janette’s career in the Australian Public Service spans 25 years and multiple portfolios. She has a record of leading people to achieve results in a variety of operating contexts and partnering with business, community and all levels of government.

A qualified lawyer, Janette has led the full suite of corporate and enabling services; regulated the public and private sectors; developed policy and delivered multibillion dollar government programmes. Janette also spent time in the private sector consulting to organisations on culture, wellbeing and leadership development.

Anne is Operations Executive Manager and leads the team responsible for delivery of the cross-agency support functions of IT, human resource management, finance, procurement, property management, records management, governance and compliance. An integral part of this role is to provide leadership in the optimisation of resource and business planning.

Anne has worked in the Agency since 2006 as HR Manager and has more than 20 years' experience working as a human resource professional for corporate and non-corporate commonwealth entities. Anne holds a Graduate Diploma in Management.

Allie leads WGEA’s Communications and Campaigns team, working with our partners across business, government and policy to raise awareness of the issues causing inequality and to advocate for action to improve fairness and safety in Australian workplaces.

Prior to joining WGEA, Allie spent 2 decades working in media and marketing in Australia and the United Kingdom. This included editorial roles with Australian Associated Press, Newsltd and the Financial Mail on Sunday. Her expertise includes digital, social, print and broadcast communication as well as strategic planning and events. 

Allie holds a Bachelor of Arts (politics and history) from the University of New South Wales, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Journalism from the University of Technology Sydney. 

Tori is the Executive Manager for Gender Equality Programs and is responsible for leading Gender Equality reporting as well as privacy and legislative reform. 

Tori brings more almost 20 years APS experience in a variety of portfolios and has led high-performing teams responsible for service delivery, legislative implementation, and compliance and enforcement in fast-paced regulatory environments.

Tori is skilled in privacy law and practice and has strong stakeholder engagement experience including on interdepartmental committees, with state and territory government officials and the private sector.

Joel leads Data & Analytics, the team responsible for the transformation journey to provide better accessibility, usability, and quality data and insights for the organisation.

Samone is an experienced gender equality strategist, researcher and change management professional with expertise in gender equality programming, strategy and gender attuned leadership capability development.

She has post graduate qualifications in psychology and social work and holds a certificate in Gender Mainstreaming from the Civil Service College (London) where she studied under the Hon. Meg Munn - former Minister for Women in the Blair Government (2005-2007).

Samone has published research and analysis on a range of gendered workplace drivers including paid parental leave, flexible work practices and gendered workplace harm such as sexual harassment and workplace incivility.

She comes to WGEA with a depth of experience working in public and private sector enterprise, training and consulting to Government, NGO’s and small business on Gender Impact Assessment, gender metrics and designing people systems and processes that drive gender equal outcomes and experiences for employees and the community.

Samone joins us from her most recent position as the inaugural Gender Equality Adviser for Victoria Police, where she developed their first gender equality strategy and action plan in response to the Victorian Gender Equality Act (2020) and developed a gender attuned leadership capability framework and change methodology for gender segregated policing operations.

Mitchell is a senior technology leader with deep expertise in delivering ICT services and digital solutions across complex public sector environments. He brings a strong track record in leading multidisciplinary teams, managing major vendor and contract arrangements, and shaping secure, reliable technology services that support organisational priorities and meet government standards.