Contributed by Tom Seddon.

I left for Australia within days of graduation in June 1989. I worked in a large Melbourne law firm and then for a fund manager, leaving in 1992 to be one of the founders of a financial services IT firm that is today listed on the London Stock Exchange (I sold out long ago, alas!).

I worked in securities through the 1990s, developing investment funds and living in Sydney. During that time I was asked to write a chapter on security dealer licensing and then to serve as Title Editor of a volume of The Laws of Australia—the national legal encyclopaedia—surely the high-water mark of my legal career!

Ready for a change with the new millennium, I took on the directorship of an international AIDS congress in 2001, and then the World Health Promotion conference in 2004.

From 2005 to 2014, I ran The Bendigo Trust, which looked after a range of historical sites, a streetcar line, and a science museum in the gold fields north of Melbourne. My mid-life crisis (if that’s what it was!) was the decision to leave the Trust after a decade and spend the next two years mostly living in London and renovating the flat in Chelsea. I first got to London at 18 and have loved the city ever since.

I met my husband, Robert, at work in 1990. We finally got married in San Francisco in 2013.

These days I run a neighbourhood development agency in inner-city Melbourne and sit on the boards of a charitable foundation and the science museum in Bendigo. Rob is a barrister working mostly in tax.

We’d be happy to welcome any visitors to Australia.