Liesel Wett

BSc., MPH, MBA, FAICD
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Pathology

Liesel is an experienced CEO, Chair, and Non-Executive Director with over two decade’s experience operating at Board level both as a Non-Executive Director (NED) and as a CEO. 

Liesel is the Chair of Barnardo’s Australia, a national charity that supports children to have caring families. Barnardos delivers numerous services to children and families including First Nations people across New South Wales and the ACT, with an advocacy and research agenda that has a national reach. She was the previous Chair of the Board of Goodwin Aged Care, the largest Aged Care provider in the greater Canberra region. Liesel is a NED of the Australian Physiotherapy Association and Southern Cross Care Living NSW/ACT. She has held previous NED roles on the national board of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Doctors Health Services. 

Liesel led Goodwin through the global COVID-19 Pandemic with no outbreaks, or deaths from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. At the same time as CEO of Australian Pathology, Liesel negotiated the COVID-19 testing framework for all Australians to access as well as numerous legislative changes to healthcare delivery as the pandemic moved through phases over time. Liesel has built a strong working knowledge and connections into the Commonwealth Government, negotiates changes to legislation and regulation as well as changes to health policy through large multi-billion-dollar agreements. 

Liesel was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the July Queen’s Birthday 2022 Honours and Awards list for her service to Medical Administration, and is a Member of Chief Executive Women, International Women’s Forum Australia and the Co-Chapter lead in the ACT for the Minerva Network.