
What is the Industry Advisory Council?
Industry Advisory Council.
The Industry Advisory Council (the Council) is a high-level, tripartite mechanism that brings together a range of industries with the single goal of building a resilient and agile supply chain workforce.
The Council broadens ISA’s approach to collaboration across the adjoining industries of the transport supply chain where the effectiveness of supply chains is critical to increasing productivity, building a resilient economy, and growing sovereign capability.
The Council brings together industry leaders to discuss and provide strategic advice on:
- Cutting-edge trends in technology adoption and automation set to transform how Australia’s supply chains operate, and the likely changes to business models, jobs and skills;
- Immediate and emerging skills and workforce development priorities of Australia’s supply chain workforce;
- Opportunities for cross-industry collaboration and solutions to address supply chain skills and workforce development challenges;
- Responses required by the national skills system, industry and governments.
The role
The role of the Industry Advisory Council

Industry Advisory Council
Advice on the critical supply chain trends set to impact the operating environment of the SC
Advice on opportunities for cross-industry collaboration and solutions
Seminal paper on the digital transformation of supply chains, the implications for jobs and skills, and the responses needed from industry, government & national skills system
Advice on the critical technologies to be investigated for their impact

Industry Skills Australia Board

Strategic Workforce Planning Committees

Annual Supply Chain Leaders

Technology Futures Taskforce
Members
Industry Advisory Council members
Mark McKenzie — Chair, CEO, Freedom Fuels
Geoffroy Henry — Founder & CEO, Ofload
Kate Russell — CEO, Supply Nation
Liz Ritchie — CEO, Regional Australia Institute
Romilly Madew — CEO, Engineers Australia
Amanda Threlfall — Assistant Secretary, Victorian Trades Hall Council
Dr Caroline Smith — Executive Director, Ai Group Centre for Education and Training
Jenny Dodd — CEO, TAFE Directors Australia
Liam O’Brien — Assistant Secretary, ACTU
Margaret Harrison — General Manager Human Resources, Rio Tinto Iron Ore
Terms of Reference