Former FBI Radio president Cassandra Wilkinson has joined the SBS board as a non-executive director.
Wilkinson serves as the executive director of Transport, Infrastructure and Investment at the New South Wales Treasury, prior to which she was director of Policy and Budgets.
She is also a director, and former Vice President, of the NSW Council of Civil Liberties, and co-founder and director of Lazy Thinking Records.
Wilkinson was the president of Sydney-based community radio station FBi Radio for more than two decades and has also spent time as the vice president of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) and director of Music NSW.
She joins the SBS board on a five-year term, having been put forward by the nomination panel as part of the merit-based appointment process for the ABC and SBS boards.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said Wilkinson was well suited to the non-executive director role.
“Ms Wilkinson’s skills and experience, including in community broadcasting, will support the SBS in making use of Australia’s creative resources and contributing to the overall diversity of Australian media services,” she said.
“The SBS provides multilingual and multicultural broadcasting and digital media services that reflect our society and inform, educate, and entertain all Australians.”
Wilkinson joins fellow non-executive directors Katrina Rathie, Aaron Fa’Aoso, Andrew Lu, Peeyush Gupta, and Vic Alhadeff on the board, which also includes chair George Savvides, deputy chair Christine Zeitz, and SBS managing director James Taylor.