Louise Glanville

Louise Glanville is the current NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commissioner 

Louise has extensive experience across the justice, social services and government sectors. Louise Chairs the Western Metropolitan Partnership and the Metropolitan Development Advisory Panel, as well as holding an Adjunct Professor role at Victoria University.

Prior to these appointments, was the Chief Executive Officer of Victoria Legal Aid, Chairperson of the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority, Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation and she spent three years as Deputy CEO at the National Disability Insurance Agency implementing the NDIS. Louise was the inaugural Director of Victoria’s Neighbourhood Justice Centre Project which saw the Centre opening in Collingwood in 2007. She has worked for the Victorian Public Advocate, the then Victorian Department of Justice and the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department in Deputy Secretary roles, as well as in local government, academia, the private sector, and ministerial offices. Louise holds qualifications in law, social work and social policy, and is keenly interested in the intersections between legal policy and public policy generally. Over the last decade, Louise has had extensive experience in varied roles related to governance, risk, strategic planning and financial management.

Ruth Spielman

Ruth is a partner at Ideas at Work consultancy. She was previously Executive Officer of the National Growth Areas Alliance (NGAA) incorporating the fast growing municipalities on the outskirts of the major cities around the nation, including Wyndham and Melton in Melbourne’s west. She has also held senior roles in local government.

Ruth has lived in the west since the mid 1980s, at which time she worked for the former Western Region Commission, a regional organisation of local government, on housing policy. At that time she was also a member of the Western Regional Housing Council which was based at the Western Region Council for Social Development in Cowper St. Footscray. She subsequently worked for Westurb, a community planning and environment advice service and did sessional tutoring at the former Footscray Institute of Technology.

She currently volunteers with the Melbourne Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP).

Colleen Vale

Colleen Vale is the former Chair of the Management Committee for the West Education Centre. The Centre which delivered a range of education services to all education sectors in the western suburbs donated its assets to the Stan Willis Trust when it closed in 2002.

Colleen is an academic, teacher educator and former secondary school teacher. She now works in the Faculty of Education at Monash University following a 20 year career with the School of Education at Victoria University and later at Deakin University. Colleen has worked with many teachers and schools throughout the western suburbs on a range of projects to improve teaching and learning for students, especially for students in disadvantaged school communities and for girls.

Colleen is continuing this work in her current academic position and is delighted to be able to serve the community of the western suburbs through the work of the Stan Willis Trust.

Evan Willis

A resident of the West from birth, Evan Willis is one of Stan and Doris Willis’ eleven grandchildren. 
A Partner at national law firm Holding Redlich and an Accredited Specialist in Employment and Industrial Relations, Evan represents individuals from all walks of life in employment disputes, with an emphasis on educators.  Evan is a significant contributor to the firm’s pro bono and social justice work including by representing asylum seekers, refugee and First Nations people.  
Prior to pursuing a career in law, Evan was an Administrator at the Centre for International Child Health at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.  Evan is also a former Board Member and Governance Director at Lacrosse Victoria and Committee Member at Williamstown Lacrosse Club. 

Ralph Willis

Ralph Willis is the eldest son of Stan Willis and is a life-long resident of Melbourne's west. He represented the seat of Gellibrand (covering Melbourne’s inner-west), in the Federal Parliament for 26 years. For 13 of those years, he was a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Governments, holding the portfolios of Employment and Industrial Relations, Transport and Communications, Finance and Treasurer.

Subsequent to leaving parliament, Ralph was Chair of the Construction and Building Industry Superannuation Fund (CBUS) and LeadWest, a regional representational body for the western suburbs of Melbourne. He is also a former Director of Victoria University Foundation and former Chair of the Board of Western Health and member of its Finance Committee, Governance and Remuneration Committee, Quality and Safety Committee and the Primary Care and Population Health Advisory Committee.

Ralph was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for long service to the Commonwealth Parliament and in 2011 was named an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia, particularly in the areas of economic development and industrial relations, to the superannuation industry, and to the community. He has also been conferred with the degree of Doctor of the University Honoris Causa from Victoria University for services to Australia and in particular the western suburbs of Melbourne.