Board of Directors

Sarah is Head of Payments Settlements Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia, she oversees the operation of the Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System (RITS), Australia’s real-time gross settlement system. Her department is also responsible for the settlement of high-value payments and interbank obligations arising from the conduct of Exchange Settlement Accounts and the Reserve Bank’s own trading activities.

Most recently Sarah was Deputy Head of Payments Settlements. Prior to that she held several roles in Payments Policy including leading the team with oversight of payments, clearing and settlement systems and associated policy and research. The team also contributed to the development and implementation of resolution, recovery and other crisis management policies relating to financial market infrastructure. Before joining the RBA, she worked at the UK Financial Services Authority for over 13 years, including stints running the clearing and settlement supervision team and working in the banking and market divisions.

Sarah has been a Non-Executive Director of the RBHS since January 2023. She is a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominations and Remuneration Committee. She has a Bachelor of Science (Hons) Finance and Accounting and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

David is a passionate governance advocate, with more than 15-years Non-Executive Director expertise across the health, social services, children’ services, and recreation sectors. He presents and writes on contemporary and emerging governance practices.

David is a Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University and the James Martin Institute, his research focus is on best practice innovation systems, and how new and emerging technology can be used to solve wicked problems. David lectures on digital transformation, ESG frameworks, and governance theory and practice.

He holds qualifications in entrepreneurship, law, politics, and public policy; is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), and the Harvard Not-For-Profit Leaders Program. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA).

Kristin is currently the Senior Manager, Payments Safety & Resilience in the Payments Policy Department of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) where she is responsible for the extension of the RBA’s supervision of systemically important payment systems to include payment systems where an outage could cause significant economic disruption. Prior to this role, Kristin worked in the RBA’s Banking Department, responsible for risk & compliance, strategy and business policy, and Note Issue department, primarily managing the Next Generation Banknote project.

Prior to joining the RBA in 2015, Kristin was at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) for 7 years where she had various roles within the Currency Department and managed the project to upgrade NZ’s banknote series and associated quality management.

Kristin has been a Director of the RBHS since 2023. She has a Master of Science (Economics) degree from Rostock University, Germany, a Master of Philosophy (Economics) degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Chris is currently the Head of Portfolio Risk & Compliance in the Risk & Compliance Department of the Reserve Bank of Australia. In this role he oversees the foreign asset, domestic asset and legal teams responsible for independently measuring the performance, risk and compliance of the Bank’s financial asset portfolios.

Prior to his current position, Chris held a number of policy, governance, risk and resilience roles at the RBA and IMF. Responsibilities included identifying and driving multi-year institution-wide change initiatives as well as working productively with boards, risk and crisis management committees.

Chris commenced as a Director of the RBHS in 2023 and is a member of the Risk Committee. Chris holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) degree, a Masters of Economics degree, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Christine is currently the Head of Data at AssetInsure Pty Ltd, implementing a comprehensive data and tech strategy from ground up that will integrate multiple financial and insurance businesses across multiple regions. Prior to this, Christine worked as Head of Data, Operations & Technolgoy at Integrity Life, and between 2018 and 2022 held a series of roles at Westpac including as Director for Data Analytics and Engineering.

Before joining Westpac, Christine worked in various roles at the Reserve Banks Information and Economic Research Department as well as at the ASX (Australian Securities Exchange).

Christine has studied at the University of Erfurt in Germany and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and holds a master’s degree from University of Sydney for which she was awarded a business leadership scholarship. She is a big picture thinker, and her passion is to bridge the divides between tech and non-tech stakeholders, between risk and innovation to achieve better business and customer outcomes. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.