Dr Marlene Krasovitsky consults nationally and internationally across a range of human rights issues, including gender equality, disability employment, ageism and age discrimination. She is also a Senior Adviser at Intersection, where she contributes to cultural reviews of organisations.
Marlene is a Director and former Co-Chair of EveryAGE Counts, Australia’s coalition-led campaign against ageism. She has consulted for the World Health Organization’s Global Campaign to Combat Ageism and worked with HelpAge International to map initiatives addressing ageism globally, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries.
Previously, Marlene was Director of Willing to Work, the Australian Human Rights Commission’s national inquiry into employment discrimination against older Australians and Australians with disability.
She has held executive, policy and operational roles across Commonwealth and state governments and the not-for-profit sector. Marlene has also contributed to several major public inquiries, including the Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force and the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in New South Wales.
Marlene serves on the New South Wales Government’s Women’s Advisory Council.
She holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, an Executive Master of Public Administration from the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Technology Sydney. She is also a registered psychologist.