Diedre Timms

Diedre Timms was a founding member of EAAA and one of the inaugural cochairs and has extensive executive level management and community development experience in the not-for-profit sector in rural and metropolitan environments.  

She has managed programs and organisations in the areas of disability, women’s health Aboriginal health, aged care and community care, and international emergency response in the following key roles: 

• established the South West Women’s Health and Information Centre in Bunbury and is past chair of the Fremantle Women’s Health Centre board; 
• worked with the Noongar community to establish the South West Aboriginal Medical Centre and conducted a Commonwealth Coordinated health care trial;  
• past CEO of Advocare, Western Australia’s peak advocacy agency for older people’s rights, past CEO, Volunteer Task Force, an organisation providing community care, past Head of Metro Social Care at Silver Chain, managing metro wide community care and 
• Indonesian Desk Officer for the Australian Red Cross Tsunami Response team,  

Diedre is also a director of a boutique software house, Configurable Software Solutions. 

Diedre is a passionate advocate for social justice. She has a Bachelor of Education and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.