Members Directory

CEW members are leaders across diverse sectors in Australia, including government, business, sport, academia, the arts, and the not-for-profit sector.

Our members share a unifying goal: to remove systemic barriers and create pipelines that enable Australian women to rise to leadership positions in their communities. This ensures a diversity of women's voices at every decision-making table while supporting both women and men to thrive—at work and home.

Ainsley Simpson

Ainsley Simpson
Ainsley Simpson is an accessible leader in sustainability and circular economy. With over two decades leading not-for-profit and professional service organisations, she is known for driving large-scale industry change, shaping national policy, and fostering cross-sector collaboration. As CEO of Seamless, Ainsley leads Australia's national clothing product stewardship scheme, transforming the clothing lifecycle - from design, production to use, re-use onto recycling to achieve circularity by 2030; positioning Australia as a leader in circular fashion and diverting 200,000 tonnes of clothing from Australian landfills each year. Immediately prior, as CEO of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council she expanded sustainable infrastructure practices by embedding ESG through planning, policy and procurement in over $380B infrastructure investment across Australia and New Zealand.
+61402486812
ainsley.simpson@seamless.org.au