About Us 
Directors
Directors
Directors
Wendy Craik AM, Chair
Wendy Craik is the Chair of the Board of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation succeeding Professor Peter Shergold (AM, AC) who stepped down from the role at the end of 2010.
Wendy has held numerous Board and advisory council positions and she brings this background and experience to the Foundation’s Board.
Wendy is currently a full-time Commissioner of the Productivity Commission. Other positions Wendy has held include Chief Executive of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, Executive Director of the National Farmers Federation , Executive Officer of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and Chief Executive of Earth Sanctuaries Limited – a listed company pioneering a private approach to wildlife conservation.
Professor Barlow is Foundation Professor of Horticulture and Viticulture at the of Melbourne. He is a plant physiologist and agricultural scientist with research interests in plant water use efficiency, viticulture and impacts of climate change on agriculture and water management.
Barb is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology and holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting). She was the 2009 Qld Rural Woman of Year and has done the Australian Institute of Company Directors Course. She is also a graduate of the Australian Rural Leadership Program Course 14. Barb is a partner and Chief Financial Officer of Smithfield Feedlot, a large cattle feeding enterprise in South East Queensland.
Susi Tegen is a graduate of the Australian Rural Leadership Course 9 program. She lives partly on a grazing and cropping property in the Limestone Coast (SA) between the seaside town of 