Our People
The Ramsay Centre is led by CEO Dr Martin Fahy. He is supported by Academic Director Professor Diana Glenn and Chief Financial Officer Emily Williams.
Our CEO
Dr Martin Fahy is an experienced academic and business leader.
Dr. Fahy took up the position of CEO of the Ramsay Centre in June 2024. Prior to this appointment, he had an extensive executive career as a Managing Director at Accenture, CEO of ASFA, the peak policy, research, and advocacy body for Australia’s superannuation industry, and as a partner with KPMG.
Martin spent over ten years as an academic in Ireland, France, and the United States. He holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland (NUI), and undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from NUI, Galway.
Martin has held visiting positions at the Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université d’Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (France), Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon (Portugal), and JEPT Pécs (Hungary) and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. He is also a former Senior Fulbright Scholar.
Our Academic Director
Professor Diana Glenn is an experienced and dedicated leader in Higher Education, a Dante scholar and award-winning tertiary educator. She holds a Master of Arts from Flinders University and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Dante Studies from the University of Western Australia.
Before joining the Centre, she was the National Head of the School of Arts at Australian Catholic University, and before that, the Dean of the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University.
She has previously taught at the University of Melbourne and the University of Adelaide, while undertaking research in Dante Studies, migration and twentieth century Italian literature. She has also served as Lead Co-ordinator (Australia) for the ICI (Instrument for Co-operation with Industrialised Countries) EU-AU Joint Mobility project ‘Border Crossings: People and Places’.
A distinguished scholar, Diana has presented her research locally and overseas, and has published numerous scholarly articles as well as authoring and co-editing nine books, including Dante’s Reforming Mission and Women in the Comedy (Troubador Italian Studies Series, 2008), ‘Legato con amore in un volume’: Essays in Honour of John A. Scott (Olschki, 2013), and Italian Identities (Troubador Italian Studies Series, 2020). Her most recent book is the co-authored, commemorative volume, La seconda casa: A history of the South Australian Italian Association (SAIA, 2021).
She is a Fellow of the Governor’s Leadership Foundation, Leaders Institute of SA, and a member of the Flinders University College of Distinguished Educators. Diana has also previously served as a member of the Helpmann Academy Board of Governors, as Chair of the Fellowships Judging Panel for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and as an Assessor for the Office of Learning and Teaching (2013-2017).
Our CFO and Company Secretary
Emily Williams is a chartered accountant with over two decades experience working in senior financial roles for listed companies, strategic advisory firms and not-for-profits. Her corporate experience includes Ernst & Young, Stockland and David Jones.
She holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) degree (2002) from the University of Technology Sydney and qualified as a chartered accountant in 2005.
She was appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Centre in 2019, which sees her act as strategic partner to the CEO in commercial negotiations. She also oversees the overall financial management of the Centre.
In addition to her CFO role, Emily serves the Centre’s Board of Directors as Company Secretary.