ProfLindon Coombes

Lindon has worked in Aboriginal Affairs for over 20 years in a range of positions. He is currently an Industry Professor at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research at the University of Technology Sydney

Prior to joining UTS, Lindon was a Director at PwC’s Indigenous Consulting (PIC). Lindon has held leadership positions in Indigenous organisations as the CEO of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, a representative body that provides a national voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and was also the CEO of Tranby Aboriginal College in Glebe, the oldest Indigenous education institution in Australia.

He has previously worked in a range of roles in the NSW Government. The last position held there was in the Senior Executive Service as Executive Director of Policy and Research at the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs.

He also worked for ATSIC and spent a number of years as Senior Policy Advisor to successive Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs in the NSW Government.