Hon. Sharan BURROW

Mrs. Sharan Burrow is the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and also President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Asia Pacific Region Organisation.

Mrs. Burrow has a long and distinguished career within the labour union. She was elected Senior Vice-President of the NSW Teachers' Federation and became President of the Australian Education Union in 1992. She represented the AEU on the ACTU Executive through the 1990's. She was previously Vice-President of Education International in 1995 to 2000. Education International is the international organisation of education unions representing 24 million members worldwide.

Currently she is also President of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights, a member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation and a member of the Stakeholder Council of the Global Reporting Initiative. As part of her ILO responsibilities, Mrs. Burrow chairs the Workers' Group of the Sub-Committee on Multinational Enterprises.

Mrs. Sharan Burrow was born in Warren, in western NSW. She studied teaching at the University of NSW in 1976 and began her teaching career in high schools around country NSW.