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                    Lord Mayor Sally Capp

                    Lord Mayor

                    Sally Capp.
                    Sally Capp was re-elected as Lord Mayor of Melbourne in November 2020 after having been first elected in May 2018, and is the first woman to be directly elected as Lord Mayor.

                    Sally was also the first woman to hold the post of Agent-General for Victoria in the UK, Europe and Israel. She has also served as the CEO for the Committee for Melbourne and COO of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

                    Sally began her career as a Solicitor, after completing Law (Hons) and Commerce degrees at the University of Melbourne.

                    Sally has held senior roles at both KPMG and ANZ, and she took the small business she co-founded to the ASX. Most recently she was Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia.

                    A passionate Magpies supporter, in 2004 Sally made history as the first female board member of Collingwood FC. She is involved in a number of charities, currently sitting on the board of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, the Mary Jane Lewis Scholarship Foundation and the Melbourne University Faculty of Business and Economics.

                    Sally is portfolio lead for City Transport, Infrastructure and Operations, and Aboriginal Melbourne. For more details see Councillor portfolios.

                    She is Council representative on the following committees and bodies:

                    • Queen Victoria Market Committee of Trustees – Chairperson
                    • Australia-Britain Society (Victoria) Inc. – Victorian Honorary Vice President
                    • C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
                    • Council of Capital City Lord Mayors
                    • Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation – Honorary Patron, Statutory appointment
                    • Melbourne Art Trust - Statutory appointment
                    • Metropolitan Local Governments’ Waste Forum
                    • Metropolitan Transport Forum
                    • Royal Humane Society of Victoria – Patron
                    • Royal Victorian Association of Honorary Justices – Patron
                    • Royal Women’s Hospital Foundation – Patron
                    • Shrine of Remembrance Trustees – Trustee, statutory appointment
                    • Chief Executive Officer Employment Matters Committee
                    • Rotary Club of Melbourne, Honorary Member.

                    Contact details

                    Contact name
                    Lord Mayor Sally Capp
                    Address
                    City of Melbourne
                    GPO Box 1603
                    Melbourne VIC 3001
                    Telephone number
                    03 9658 965803 9658 9658
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