facultyexplore advaya’s teachers
Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, who share multidimensional, local and diverse narratives from across the world.
Bayo Akomolafe
Sophie Strand
Satish Kumar
Vandana Shiva
Veronica Strang
Manda Scott
Beloved Sara Zaltash
David Abram
Dr Andreas Weber
David Whyte
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic
Charles Eisenstein
Aisha Paris Smith
Brontë Velez
Rosemary Dillon
Rosemary is a highly skilled and passionate leader with over 25 years of experience in local government - delivering significant results in service delivery, strategic financial and asset management, city, community and corporate planning, governance and risk, safety and asbestos management.
Rosemary HAS project managed the national award winning Blue Mountains Our Future - The Next 25 Years and has led the focus of the Blue Mountains City Council on integrated planning and the achievement of a more sustainable future for the City of Blue Mountains - socially, economically and environmentally. This focus has included leading the transformation of the Council's financial sustainability through developing and driving implementation of the Council's Six Strategies for Financial Sustainability, successfully reforming a complex rating structure and gaining community and IPART support for three Special Rate Variations, culminating in the Council being declared Fit for the Future by the NSW State Government. BMCC is responsible for approximately 140,377 hectares (542 square miles), 26 townships and villages and has a population of approximately 78,000. Council is committed to working in close partnership with the community: to preserve and enhance a City where quality and diversity of life are in harmony with the unique natural and built environment of the Blue Mountains: The City within a National Park.
