Tracey Cain
GD Broadcast, LLB, MPA, CF
Tracey Cain was appointed to the Council in 2016.
Tracey has worked with the independent schools sector across Australia for more than 30 years – working on issues, crisis and reputation management.
She has worked with most of the Australian schools associations as well as for more than 450 individual schools, on many of the issues which have confronted the sector over several decades.
Tracey is also the Deputy Chair of the Association of Independent Schools of NSW (a director since 2017), and a Director on the Board of Independent Schools Australia (since 2024).
Her background is as a journalist in both the NSW and Federal Parliamentary Press Galleries, as a Ministerial media adviser to a Minister for Education, and also as an advisor in the White House during the 1996 Presidential Elections.
She has worked in-house as a Director of Communications/Media for a leading Australian corporate law firm offering advice to the firm and its clients around disputes and transactions. She later served as the founding CEO of a health and aged care foundation.
Tracey is a regular speaker at independent schools’ conferences.
She was the former Chair of Wahroonga Preparatory School (2015-2016) and from 2005 until 2015, she served as a Director of The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, managing the selection of Fellows in NSW including in the education category.
Tracey holds a Graduate Diploma in Commercial Broadcasting, a Bachelor of Laws degree, a Master of Public Affairs and a Churchill Fellowship (1996).