Ms Paula Davies She/Her

Paula Davies is the Governance and Risk Manager, Company Secretary, and General Counsel for Adelaide PHN. She has over 25 years of legal experience in private, public, and not-for-profit sectors, including four years overseeing clinical research integrity at SA Health.

Paula has a strong interest in supporting organisations with good governance frameworks to ensure robust, transparent, and ethically sound decision-making. She also has a keen interest in safeguarding and helping remove social disadvantage. This has shaped her previous work in the disability sector as a company secretary and general counsel.

Paula is a board member/trustee of Julia Farr’s grants body and has board experience spanning over two decades in retirement living, literacy, community legal services, social housing, supporting disadvantaged youth and more. She is also an independent member of several local government Audit and Risk committees in SA, and is an Independent Member of the Child Safety & Wellbeing Panel with the Tasmanian Department of Health.