Chief Executive Officer
Carnival Australia

Carnival Corporation is the world’s largest cruise ship operator and owns, amongst others, P&O Cruises, Princess Cruises, Costa, Cunard and Seabourn. Carnival Australia is the largest cruise ship operator in Australasia and has doubled in size in the past two years.

Prior to her current role at Carnival Australia, Ann Sherry AO was Chief Executive Officer, Westpac New Zealand and the first female CEO of a bank in New Zealand. She was also the CEO of the Bank of Melbourne and the first female bank CEO in Australia. Prior to this, she was Group Executive, People & Performance and was a driver of cultural change, community engagement and customer focus in commercial and retail banking.

Prior to Westpac, Ann was First Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Status of Women in Canberra, advising the Prime Minister on women and was Australia’s representative to the United Nations on human and women’s rights.

In addition to her executive roles, Ann is a non-Executive Director of Wilson HTM Investment Group and Chairman of the Queensland Public Service Commission. She is a Director of Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships, the Catherine Freeman Foundation, the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and Company B. She is also a member of the Board of the Tourism & Transport Forum and the Visa Asia Pacific Advisory Board.

Ann is a Fellow, Financial Services Institute of Australasia, a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration and a Member of the Institute of Company Directors.

In 2001, Ann was awarded a Centenary Medal by the Australian Government for her work on providing banking services to disadvantaged communities.

In January 2004 Ann was awarded an Order of Australia for her contribution to the Australian community through the promotion of corporate management policies and practices that embrace gender equity, social justice and work and family partnerships.