Gabrielle Upton

Member for Vaucluse

Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier 
She was re-elected for a third term as Member for Vaucluse at the March 2019 NSW Election and on 2 April 2019 she was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the NSW Premier.

Gabrielle previously held the positions of Minister for the Environment, Local Government and Heritage, served as the first female NSW Attorney General, as Minister for Family and Community Services, as Minister for Sport and Recreation and as Parliamentary Secretary for Tertiary Education and Skills.

Her career began as a banking and finance lawyer with legal firms Freehill, Hollingdale & Page and Philips Fox, after being admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia in 1988.

Gabrielle and her husband Alex Sundich moved to New York in 1993 where Gabrielle completed a Masters of Business Administration (Finance Management) at New York University’s Leonard Stern School of Business. Upon completing her MBA, Gabrielle worked as a banker with Deutsche Bank and Toronto Dominion Bank in New York financing the energy sector.

Returning to Sydney in 1999 with her family, Gabrielle was appointed Legal Counsel at the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

She served as Deputy Chancellor at the University of New South Wales from 2006 until 2009, and on the University’s Council from 2002 to 2010.

From 2005 to 2011 Gabrielle was the Deputy Chair of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards in Australia. She was also a board member of Neuroscience Research Australia, one of Australia’s largest research centres on the brain and nervous system, from 2007 to 2011.

Gabrielle received a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
 

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