Alice Klettner

Alice Klettner (née Bunker) joined the UTS Centre of Corporate Governance in October 2005 as a full-time Research Associate. She has a background in law and is admitted as a solicitor in both Australia (New South Wales) and the UK (England and Wales).

Prior to joining the Centre, Alice practiced as a solicitor in Sydney specialising in employment and industrial relations law. This included advising corporations on the corporate governance implications of their executive remuneration schemes. Alice also worked for four years at the large international firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London. She was a member of its Environment, Planning and Regulatory group where she was involved in several major international arbitration and judicial review cases. In addition, she spent six months in the firm's Singapore office working in the project finance team.

Alice has a Masters degree in International Law from Sydney University and a First Class BA(Hons) degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University in the UK. Her Masters' research thesis Protection of the Environment During Armed Conflict: One Gulf, Two Wars was published in the Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (RECIEL), Vol 13, No 2, July 2004 at 201.

Alice is involved in the Centre for Corporate Governance's research projects into the changing role of boards and directors and board diversity. Other research interests include the links between corporate governance and public international law, particularly in the area of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development.