IDP Education Australia strengthens team with key appointments
Released 20 September 2005
Australia’s international student recruiting arm IDP Education
Australia has announced three senior appointments to strengthen its
reach into the country’s $6 billion education export market, Chief
Executive Anthony Pollock announced today.
The appointments are:
Meredith Jackson as Chief Marketing Officer: a
leading Australian higher education marketing specialist, Ms
Jackson spent six years at the helm of marketing operations at
Monash University and The University of Queensland overhauling
brand communications and upgrading online capacity. This followed a
long career marketing metropolitan media titles including several
News Limited newspapers and the Seven Network. Before that, Ms
Jackson spent 15 years as a journalist in Australia, the United
States and Great Britain. Ms Jackson said IDP’s success was crucial
to meeting the challenges in the international knowledge trade
arena, where Australia is the number three English language
destination behind the US and UK. Her responsibilities include
global branding and client relationship management.
Tim Dodd as Manager Media and Policy Advice:
the founding editor of the Australian Financial Review’s education
section, Mr Dodd has been an outstanding commentator on education
in the past two years. He was the AFR’s South East Asia
correspondent between 1999-2003 and night editor and Canberra
bureau director prior to that. Mr Dodd will provide advice to the
Chief Executive on education policy and media issues, and will be
the principal contact point for media. Mr Dodd said he relished the
opportunity to make a significant contribution to Australia’s
growing reputation as a provider of high quality educational
services. Mr Dodd takes up his position on 10 October, coinciding
with IDP’s annual conference.
Peter Burges as Country Director, IDP Hong Kong
: Mr Burges has had a long background of achievement within IDP and
his own consultancy, where he specialised in the development and
delivery of educational services in Asia. He was most recently
responsible for increasing and managing security levels for the
IELTS Australia/China operation. (IELTS is the International
English Language Testing System – co-owned by IDP Education
Australia, Cambridge University ESOL Examinations and the British
Council.) A specialist in Chinese and southeast Asian education
service frameworks, Mr Burges is an Australian who has lived and
worked in Asia for over 15 years, and is a former Country Director
of IDP Thailand.
Mr Pollock said the appointees were outstanding and proven
performers. “They will make an enormous contribution to IDP’s
growth as Australia’s most important international student
recruitment network and we are delighted that people of such
calibre have demonstrated their confidence in IDP’s future,“ Mr
Pollock said.
