Ms McDonald is a Chartered Accountant with over 35 years of business experience in finance accounting, auditing, risk management and governance.
She is a company director and has pursued a full-time career as a non-executive director since 2006. She is the chair of Water New South Wales, non-executive director of St Vincent's Health Australia and Transport Asset Holdings Entity of New South Wales.
Ms McDonald was a partner at Ernst & Young for 15 years.
She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney.