Cheryl Kernot is the  first Director of Teaching and Learning at the Centre for Social Impact (CSI), a unique partnership between Business Schools of the University of New South Wales, the University of Melbourne and Swinburne University of Technology.

Cheryl was Leader of the Australian Democrats from 1993-1997 and the Member for Dickson and a Labor Shadow Minister from 1998-2001.

Following her distinguished political career, Cheryl spent five years working in the UK as a Programme Director at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Said Business School at Oxford University and as the Director of Learning at the School for Social Entrepreneurs in London. Her specialist role at the Skoll Centre was to assist and mentor start-up social businesses particularly in the delivery of innovative health services