Elise Stephenson

Dr Elise Stephenson is an award-winning researcher and entrepreneur, and the Deputy Director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, Australian National University, founded and chaired by former prime minister Julia Gillard.

As a scholar-entrepreneur, Elise conducts major research projects on gender equality and diversity in a variety of cutting-edge policy frontiers, including world-leading research for the United Nations on the space sector and government on topics spanning climate change to AI.

In her entrepreneurial world, she leads major entrepreneurship incubator/accelerator programs Australia and Southeast Asia. She has a ‘boots on the ground’ approach to bringing evidence on equality and inclusion to what’s done in practice.

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