Council - RANZCOG

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��TV's council oversees the policy and strategic planning of the College.

About

The RANZCOG Council has general oversight of the policy and strategic planning of the College and meets three times a year (generally in March, July, and November) at College Place in Melbourne, Australia.

The Council comprises of the following:

Members of the Board
20 elected Fellows representing each State and Territory of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Two elected Regional Fellows
One Māori Fellow
The Immediate Past-President
The Chair of the First Nations Women’s Health Committee (FNWHC)
The Chair of He Hono Wāhine
The Chair of the Trainees’ Committee
Two Community Representatives

Non-voting members include:

The Dean of Education
Dean of Policy & Research

Members of the 14th RANZCOG Council

The Fourteenth RANZCOG Council took office at the College Annual General Meeting held on 21 October 2025. The Council will serve a two-year term until October 2027.

Members of Council

President	Dr Nisha Khot
Vice-President	A/Prof Michael Rasmussen Dr Emma Jackson A/Prof Jared Watts
Board Directors	Dr Leigh Duncan Professor Amanda Henry Prof Boon Lim
Board Director, Associate Procedural or Advanced Procedural member (or equivalent)	Dr Martina Mende
Board Director, Independent	Ms Shaymaa Elkadi
Councillor resident in Australian Capital Territory	Dr Sim Hom Tam
Councillors resident in New South Wales	Dr Tania Day Prof Hans Peter Dietz Dr Andrew Pesce Dr Kieren Wilson
Councillor representing Māori Fellows resident in Aotearoa New Zealand	Dr Angela Beard
Councillors resident in Aotearoa New Zealand	Dr Celia Devenish Dr Per Kempe
Councillors resident in Queensland	Dr Sajeeva Senaka Abeysundera Dr Elisha Broom Dr Alison McDougall
Councillors resident in Northern Territory	A/Prof Ashraf Hanafy
Councillors resident in South Australia	Dr Magda Halt Dr Aimee Woods
Councillors resident in Tasmania	Dr Frank Clark
Councillors resident in Victoria	Dr Victoria Carson Dr Stephen Lee A/Prof Vinay Rane A/Prof Roshan Zeirideen Zaid
Councillors resident in Western Australia	Dr Anna Clare Dr Hugh Greenland
Councillors representing Regional Fellows	Dr Carmen Brown Dr Abhijit Das
Immediate Past-President	Dr Gill Gibson
Chair, Trainees’ Committee	Dr Katie Blunt
Trainees’ Committee Representative (Deputy Chair, Aotearoa New Zealand)	Dr Rachel Lines
Chair, First Nations Women’s Health Committee (FNWHC)	Leila Usher
Chair, He Hono Wāhine	Dr Sarah Corbett
Community Representative (Australia)	Ms Lea Rawlings
Community Representative (Aotearoa New Zealand)	Ms Karen Vaughan

Representatives (non-voting)

Dean of Education	Professor Ian Symonds
Dean of Research and Policy	Professor Cynthia Farquhar
Chair of Research Policy and Guidelines Committee	Dr Scott White
Education Advisor	Dr Katrina Calvert
Chair of the Conjoint Committee for Associate Procedural Training	Dr Kasia Siwicki
Chair of each of the Subspecialty Committees (CU, CREI, CMFM, CGO, COGU)	Cecile Bergzoll (CGO) Fay Lin Chao (CU) Ritu Mogra (COGU) Shin Lee (CMFM) Marcin Stankiewicz (CREI)