Virginia Bourke

Virginia Bourke is a lawyer and consultant in private practice with a breadth of corporate governance and commercial experience. She served as a director of several not-for-profit organisations including a term as director of Mercy Health from 2008–2014, and as a member of the Mercy Health Human Research Ethics Committee. She is chair of St John Ambulance Victoria. Ms Bourke has broad legal experience, previously working as general counsel for the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea and as special counsel in the employment law group at Minter Ellison Lawyers. She brings a community perspective to her board roles having had a long involvement with local parish and school organisations.