Sharon Veale—Chief Executive Officer

Sharon is Chief Executive Officer and Partner at GML Heritage. She brings a wealth of expertise and over 15 years’ experience in Aboriginal and historic cultural heritage assessment, management and conservation for public and private sector clients.

Sharon specialises in urban planning, heritage and impact assessments, and interpretation. As a GML Partner, she plays a pivotal role in leading multidisciplinary teams in the integrated assessment of heritage values. She has a strong track record in preparing heritage assessments across cultural landscapes and places of significant scale and complexity. She also has extensive experience in community engagement and in documenting social and cultural values.

Sharon is a sessional lecturer for Heritage Planning at the University of NSW, has published three books and regularly contributes to peer-reviewed journals.

Sharon is a Trustee on the Board of Living Museums and is a member of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Advisory Council.

Qualifications Master of Arts (Applied History), University of Technology Honours (Fine Arts), University of Sydney Bachelor of Arts, Flinders University Graduate Diploma (Urban and Regional Planning), University of Sydney

Key Experience

World Heritage Places Hyde Park Lighting Design Heritage Advice— Building 83 Essendon Airport, Melbourne, Client: AECOM and . Heritage Advice—Client: Essendon Airport. Angkor World Heritage Area, Cambodia, Hyde Park Plan of Management and Masterplan Eastwood Brickworks, Heritage Impact Heritage Management Framework—Client: Amendment— Education Statement—Client: AV Jennings Authority for the Protection and Management Centre—Client: Clouston Associates and the City Wianamatta Regional Park, NSW, of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap, Royal of Sydney. Conservation Management Plan—Client: Government of Cambodia. Heritage Planning and Department of Environment, Climate Change and Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area, Water. Assessments Norfolk Island, Heritage Management Sydney Metro Over Station Development Plan—Client: Kingston and Arthurs Vale First Government House Site CMP—Client: ( South), Heritage Impact Management Authority. Sydney Living Museums. Assessment and Advice—Client: Woods Bagot, 2016. Owen Stanley Ranges and Kokoda Track, Young Street Terraces CMP—Client: Sydney Papua New Guinea, World Heritage Road Living Museums. Map—Client: Department of Environment and Heritage Interpretation , Heritage Assessment—Client: Conservation, Papua New Guinea. City of Sydney. HMAS Platypus Interpretation Strategy—Client: Park Interpretation Planning, , Conservation Management Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. Heritage Advice and Assessment—Client: Plan—Client: Penrith Lakes Development Toorale National Park and State Conservation Parramatta Park Trust. Corporation. Area, NSW, Interpretation Strategy—Client: and Reserves, NSW, , Vehicle and Pedestrian NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and World Heritage Tentative List Submission— Safety Project and Forecourt Aboriginal NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Client: Office of Environment and Heritage. Cultural Values Assessment—Client: Sydney 200 George Street, Sydney, Interpretation Strategic Heritage Advice Opera House Trust. Strategy—Client: Mirvac. Newmarket Site, Randwick, Heritage Hill End Historic Site, Interpretation Plan— Metropolitan Greenspace Program (Cultural Assessment—Client: William Inglis and Son Hall Client: NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Heritage Expert 2008–2016)—Client: NSW Group. Dr Chau Chak School of Business, University Department of Planning and Environment. Harris Park and Camellia Planning Study, of Technology, Sydney, Interpretation Drayton South, Hunter Valley, Coal Project Parramatta—Client: Parramatta City Council. Strategy—Client: University of Technology. Heritage Advice and PAC Presentations— Block 42, Section 2, Pialligo, ACT, Heritage , Ultimo, Interpretation Strategy— Client: Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders Advice—Client: Department of Defence, Australian Client: Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority. Association. Government. Sydney Opera House, Interpretation Strategy— Calga Aboriginal Women’s Site, Expert King George V, ACT, Heritage Management Client: Sydney Opera House. Evidence—Client:Australian Wildlife Plan—Client: National Capital Authority. Parrmatta Park Interpretation Plan—Client: Walkabout Park. Parramatta Park Trust.

Heritage Interpretation Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, Selected Publications and Norfolk Island, Interpretation Plan Stage 1— Papers Barangaroo Harbour Control Tower Client: Norfolk Island Government and Administration Services. Interpretation Plan—Client: Barangaroo Veale, S, ‘The Future of Heritage’, in Historic Development Authority. New Norcia, WA—Interpretation Plan Stage 1— Environment, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2015. Client: Benedictine Community of New Norcia. Wollongong Hospital, Interpretation Veale, S ‘Domestic Archaeological and Heritage Strategy—Client: NSW Health. Penrith Lakes, Interpretation Strategy—Client: Management Law in ’, in C. Smith (ed.) Doonside Residential Parcel, Bungarribee, Penrith Lakes Development Corporation. Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology, Springer Interpretation Plan—Client: UrbanGrowth. Castle Hill Heritage Park, Interpretation Plan, Science + Business Media, New York, 2013. The Glasshouse, Port Macquarie, Heritage Stage 1—Client: Baulkham Hills Shire Council. Veale, S Freestone, R ‘The things they wanted to Interpretation—Client: Port Macquarie and Garden Island, Sydney, Oral History—Client: keep: The Commonwealth and the National Estate Hastings Council. Department of Defence, Australian Government. 1969-1974’, Historic Environment, Vol 24 No. 3, 2012. Sydney Harbour YHA and The Big Dig, The Common Ground, Sydney, Interpretation Plan— Veale, S, Freestone, R and Ruming, K, ‘Making Rocks, Interpretation Strategy—Client: Client: Grocon. Heritage a National Responsibility: The Sydney Harbour YHA. Commonwealth and the National Estate 1969– Urban Design/Master Planning 20 Martin Place, Sydney, Interpretation 1974’, 11th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference, University of Western Strategy—Client: Charter Hall. Urban Transformation and Australia, Perth, 2012. 1 Bligh Street, Sydney, Interpretation Social Infrastructure—Client: SJB Urban on Strategy—Client: Grocon. behalf of UrbanGrowth NSW. Brown, S, Snelgrove, C and Veale, ‘Heritage as springboard: creativity as a driver of long-term 1 Alfred Street, Sydney, Interpretation Middle Head Masterplan, Heritage economic growth’, ICOMOS 17th General Strategy—Client: Valad Fields Trust. Assessment—Client: National Parks and Wildlife Assembly, UNESCO Paris, 2011. Carlton United Brewery, Melbourne, Service. Veale S, ‘The Interpretation of Norfolk Island’s Interpretation Strategy—Client: Aurecon. , Sydney, Masterplan—Client: Heritage’, History, Magazine of the Royal Colebee and Nurragingy Land Grant, 799 Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust. Australian Historical Society, Sept 2011, No 109. Richmond Road, Richmond, Interpretation Royal Botanic Garden and The Domain, Veale, S 2010, ‘Presenting Outstanding Heritage Strategy—Client: Legacy Property. Sydney, Conservation Management Plan— Places: Communities, Challenges and Client: Royal Botanic Garden and the Domain The Centenary Trail, Canberra, Opportunities’, delivered at World Heritage Forum Interpretation Services—Client: Territory and Trust. Korea 2010: Conservation for the Future, Suwon, Dee Why Town Centre, Masterplan Review— Municipal Services, ACT Government. Korea, 2010. Client: Place Design Group for Warringah Council. Dame Eadith Walker Hospital, West

Concord, Interpretation Strategy and Plan— Hyde Park Masterplan, Heritage Advice and Client: Sydney Local Health District. Impact Assessment—Client: City of Sydney. Kamay Botany Bay, Interpretation Plan— Observatory Hill, Sydney, Masterplan Review— Client: NSW Office of Environment and Client: Environmental Partnership for City of Heritage. Sydney. Industry Involvement

Employment Professional Committees and Panels Affiliations/Memberships Chief Executive, GML Heritage, 2013–Present. Trustee, Sydney Living Museums Board, 2016– Partner/Director, GML Heritage, 2011–Present. Full Member Planning Institute of Australia. Present. Senior Associate, GML Heritage, 2008–2011. Australia ICOMOS (International Council on Member, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Advisory Council, 2011–Present. Associate, GML Heritage, 2007–2008. Monuments and Sites). Member, National Parks and Wildlife , Research Senior Consultant, GML Heritage, 2006–2007. Interpretation Australia. and Policy Advisory Sub-Committee, 2011– Sessional Lecturer, Heritage Planning, Oral History Association of Australia (NSW). Present. University of NSW, 2011–Present. Museums Australia. Expert Member, International Scientific Committee Research Historian, National Parks and Awards for Interpretation and Presentation, 2008–Present. Wildlife Service, 1996–2006. Editorial Committee, Historic Environment, Project Officer, Australia Institute of Architects, NSW National Trust Heritage Award for Toorale International Committee of Monuments and Sites NSW Chapter, Register of Significant 20th National Park, Interpretation Planning, 2015. (Australia), 2011–Present. Century Buildings 1993–1996. NSW National Trust Heritage Award for the Member, Interpretation Panel, Research Assistant, University of NSW, ARC travelling exhibition, ‘Making a Place for Herself: NSW Heritage Office, 2004–2007. Funded Project on the City Beautiful for Prof Women's Experiences of Landscapes and National Member, History Advisory Panel, Robert Freestone, 1993–1996. Parks’. Project Managers: Sharon Veale and NSW Heritage Office, 1996–2007. Catherine Snelgrove, 2006. Member, Australian Institute of Architects NSW National Trust Heritage Award for ‘Revival, Architecture Conservation Committee, 2000– Renewal and Return: Ray Kelly and the NSW Sites 2005. of Significance Survey’. Project Manager: Sharon Veale, 2006. Chair, International Committee of Monuments and Sites (Australia) National Cultural Tourism Dean’s Merit List, Graduate Diploma of Urban and Committee, 2003–2004. Regional Planning, 1998.