Our Board

Médecins Sans Frontières Australia’s constitution provides for a maximum of ten elected members on the board. The Association votes each year at the Annual General Meeting to set the Board size and to vote in new members. The current Board has nine elected members and one is nominated from Médecins Sans Frontières France.

The Médecins Sans Frontières Australia Association votes each year at the Annual General Meeting to set the Board size and to vote in new members. The current Board has ten elected members and one is nominated from Médecins Sans Frontières France. All members of the board, except for the President, are volunteers and are not remunerated for their work for Médecins Sans Frontières Australia.

MSF Australia board members

Katrina Penney, President

Katrina was re-elected to the MSFA Board by the Association and elected as President by the Board in 2021. Her appointment builds on significant experience as a Board member having performed the role of Vice President from 2013 to 2019.

Katrina is a founding Trustee to the MSF New Zealand Charitable Trust and a founding member of the Auckland MSF support network group.She began her work with Médecins Sans Frontières in 2002 and has been an MSF Association member since that time. She and has worked in the field in Afghanistan,Nepal, Yemen, Haiti and Sierra Leone as a nurse, midwife, hospital manager and field coordinator. From 2006 to 2009 Katrina worked in the Human Resources department of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia.

Since returning from Australia back to New Zealand, Katrina has worked in Midwifery care, Refugee Health, Public Health, Cultural Competency and recently as the Returning Officer for the Northland Electorate for the 2020 General Election. Katrina currently lives in rural Northland, New Zealand with her husband managing their Avocado Orchard.

Dwin Tucker

Dwin Tucker, Vice President

Dwin (formally Edwin) Tucker was one of the founding Médecins Sans Frontières Australia Board members as Treasurer from 1996-1998. More recently, he returned to the Board, being re-elected in May 2021 by the association and elected as Vice-President by the Board. For MSFA, he has been Treasurer for eight years, a Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk, and Branding and Resources Committees, a member of the Remuneration Committee and a representative to both the Operating Centre, Geneva Congress and Operating Centre, Paris Group Committee. Dwin has undertaken field audits in Thailand and Laos and facilitated a Field Association Debate in Nigeria in 2019.

Outside of MSF, Dwin has been a CEO of seven companies (from small-medium to large) and has been a director of public, private and not-for-profit boards. He has a depth of experience in leadership, strategy, finance, technology and marketing and has advised numerous companies and leadership teams as a consultant and mentor.

He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne and a Masters in Business from UTS and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Dwin is based in Sydney and amongst other involvements, chairs/owns Clearasound, a leader in technologies and services for the deaf and hearing-impaired community in Australia.

Beth Hilton-Thorp

Beth Hilton-Thorp, Treasurer

Beth Hilton-Thorp was elected to the Board in May 2013, re-elected in May 2016 and for a third term in May 2019. Beth is a non-practising lawyer with experience in government and private legal practice. She is qualified in law and social work and has a BA (ANU), B Soc. Stud (Sydney), LLB (ANU), Beth is admitted to practise in the High Court of Australia and Supreme Courts ACT and NSW.

Beth has undertaken one field mission for Médecins Sans Frontières. She chaired the Board’s Governance and Association Committee from 2013 until 2019 and has been a member of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee since 2013.

Since 2000, she has worked in international health and development assistance in varying roles for several organisations including not-for-profits, universities and government agencies. Prior to that Beth held several positions (legal, academic and in business) in Australia and whilst living overseas.

Dr Meguerditch Terzian, President MSF France

Dr Meguerditch (Mégo) Terzian is currently the President of Médecins Sans Frontières France. He was appointed to the Médecins Sans Frontières Australia Board in March 2017 as its MSF France representative. Mégo is a French citizen of Armenian origin. He is a paediatrician by training and worked in the paediatric emergency unit in Yerevan, Armenia.

Mégo joined MSF as a national staff member in 1994 and his first mission as an international staff member was in 1999, in Siera Leone. He has worked in multiple field contexts, as a physician in the field in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iran and the Democratic Republic of Congo and then as a mobile coordinator in Liberia, Ivory Coast, DRC. Mégo joined MSF’s Emergency Program unit in 2005, becoming Head of Emergency Programs from 2010-2013. He was elected as President of MSF France in 2013 and re-elected in 2016 and 2019. Mégo lives in Paris.

Kerry Atkins

Kerry was elected to the Board in May 2019, and holds a Graduate certificate in Humanitarian Leadership. She has recently done field missions in Libya and Nigeria with MSF and has also worked for the MSF Australia office in financial management roles. Kerry has worked for many locally focused NGOs within Australia including the Black Dog Institute and the Sunrise Project, as well as with Oxfam supporting programs in Timor Leste and Mount Isa. She has experience and skills in capacity building, leading teams, implementing change, initiating strategic processes, operational planning, and governance.

Mohamad-Ali Trad

Mohamad-Ali (Ali) is an Infectious Diseases physician who started with MSF in 2008 and first joined the Association in 2009. His 10 field placements have seen him work as an MD, Project Medical Referent and most recently as Project Coordinator in Yemen last year. In addition to a strong academic background in teaching and research, Ali brings governance experience through several professional roles in healthcare settings. Ali is multilingual and has lived and worked in South East Asia and the UK. Ali is currently an Infectious Diseases physician in Launceston General Hospital and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Tasmania.

Dr Vin Massaro, BA, PhD (Monash), FAICD

Vin was co-opted to the Program and Operations Committee in 2015 and to the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee (FRAC) in 2020. He was appointed to a casual vacancy on the MSFA Board in October 2020. He continued to serve on FRAC and is one of two Board members on the Governance Committee of SEEAP, and was elected to the Board in 2021.

Vin has extensive senior management and governance experience, and as a consultant providing strategic advice on policy, management and governance in health and education in Australia and internationally. He has served as Chair or member of several boards in the health and medical education sectors, is currently the Independent member of the Board of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, where he also serves as Chair of the Māori, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Executive Committee and a member of its Finance, Audit and Risk Committee. His other Board roles have included Northern Health, one of the metropolitan hospital systems in Melbourne, the Anti-Cancer Foundation of South Australia, the Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures - Surgical (ASERNIP-s), Flinders Reproductive Medicine, and the Advisory Board of the Centre for International Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. He has been a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors for over 20 years.

Vin’s management roles have included senior positions in universities and as inaugural Chief Executive of the Victorian State Board of Education and Chief executive of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He has also been Executive Dean of the Melbourne University Private School of International Development, which managed a range of international aid projects. Vin is currently a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Carol Nagy

Carol has worked for MSF for over 19 years holding 24 field positions over that time and has worked in the MSF Sydney office in Human Resources and was technical nurse referent for Intensive Care with OCP. Carol was also involved with the development of the ICU nurses training programme, BASIC, in collaboration with MSF and the University of Hong Kong.

Specializing in critical care, public health and disaster health management Carol has held senior technical and management positions with MSF and other organizations with a strong focus in the Middle East and Asia Pacific region. Her last field placement was as Project Coordinator in Herat, Afghanistan in 2020.

Having joined the MSFA Association in 2005, Carol brings her extensive humanitarian experience and insight into how MSF works practically, and the challenges MSF continues to face. Carol currently works as a clinical nurse in emergency and intensive care in Hobart.

Bethany Lansom

Bethany was elected to the Board in May 2020. Bethany is a Clinical Nurse Consultant in Disaster and Emergency Management and prior to this, a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Severe Burns and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in Sydney and the Northern Territory.

Bethany joined Medécins Sans Frontiéres in 2016 and she has worked in South Sudan and Sierra Leone. She also has experience working with other organisations in the Republic of Congo, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands. Bethany has a Diploma of Tropical Nursing and is currently completing a Masters of Global Health.

Maria Cartwright

Maria Cartwright is a nurse and midwife and has a Degree in Social Sciences. Her first field mission with MSF was in Ethiopia in 1996. Fifteen missions followed in both the African and Asian context, including as Head of Mission and Medical Coordinator. She also spent 3 years in the MSF Australia office as Field Human Resources Director. In the 8 years since her last mission she has been the MSF Association Network Coordinator for Victoria. In recent years she has been volunteering with the Oro Community Development Project in PNG as Medical Team Leader.

Maria has held nursing and midwifery positions in large Australian hospitals, community based refugee health programs and in indigenous communities. She has also had academic roles at ACU and Deakin University. 25 years of involvement with MSF at many levels has given Maria extensive knowledge of MSF’s field based activities and challenges, human resource management and insight into the issues that most concern association members.Maria had been working in the emergency department of the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne prior to her recent retirement.

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