HER EXCELLENCY PROFESSOR MARIE BASHIR AC,
Governor of NSW

• Thirty seventh Governor of New South Wales.
• First woman to be appointed Governor of New South Wales.
• Bachelor degrees in medicine and surgery in 1956 from the University of Sydney.
• Taught at the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, increasingly working with children's services psychiatry and mental health services, and indigenous health programs.
• Held the positions of Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney, Area Director of Mental Health Services Central Sydney and Senior Consultant to the Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern and to the Aboriginal Medical Service, Kempsey.
• Widespread involvement and interests have included juvenile justice, research on adolescent depression, health issues in developing countries, education for health professionals and telemedicine and new technologies for health service delivery.
• She was, at the time of her appointment as Governor, a member of societies such as Amnesty International, the National Trust, the NSW Camellia Research Society and the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Centre, as well as being a patron of the Sydney Symphony and Opera Australia.
• Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1988 for her services to child and adolescent health.