The Hon Gabrielle Upton

BA, LLB, MBA, FAICD, FRSN

The Hon Gabrielle Upton joined The Florey Board in 2024.

Ms Upton has 30 years combined experience as a non-executive director, investment banker and lawyer, senior cabinet minister and university deputy chancellor.

She serves on ASX200 Listed PEXA Group Ltd’s Board Advisory Committee and, as non-executive director, chairs the Risk Committee for the Australian Olympic Committee’s $100M managed investment fund and the Commercialisation Committee at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience, a world-leading research and commercialisation organisation. She is a Strategic Advisor at leading global law firm King & Wood Mallesons.

From 2011 to 2023, Ms Upton served in senior NSW Government ministries including as the first female NSW Attorney General, Minister for the Environment, Local Government and Heritage, Minister for Family and Community Services, Minister for Sport and Recreation and oversaw the delivery of the State’s $106B public infrastructure investment.

Ms Upton has served as a non-executive director for more than 20 years including as Deputy Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, independent director group O’Connell Street Associates and as a member of the Federal Government’s Corporate & Markets Advisory Committee. Her career in corporate finance began at Deutsche Bank and Toronto-Dominion Bank in New York and as a lawyer with Herbert Smith Freehills and DLA Piper.

Ms Upton has a Master of Business Administration from New York University’s Stern School of Business, Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts from the University of New South Wales and graduated in 2022 from Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of Chief Executive Women. Gabrielle received a UNSW Women Trailblazer Award in 2024 for her contribution to business, government and community.