Rabia Siddique

Rabia Siddique

Best advice ever received:
“To thine own self be true"

 

Chair Since: 2020
Current Executive / Board positions
  • Part Time Director - Metisphere
  • Non-Executive Board Member - Museum of Freedom and Tolerance, Wesley College, Calan Wiliams Racing and the International Foundation of Non-Violence
Experience
  • Law
  • Leadership
  • Resilience
  • Diversity
  • Inclusion
  • Communications 
Qualifications
  • Bachelor of Law (UWA)
  • Bachelor of Arts (UWA)
Achievements
  • Queens Commendation for Valuable Service (QCVS) for Human Rights work in the Middle East
  • Author, Equal Justice, 2013
  • Author, A Beautiful Revolution, 2020
  • Australia's 100 Most Influential Women, 2014
  • Finalist, Telstra Business Woman of the Year, 2014
  • Finalist, Australian of the Year Awards, 2016

A graduate of The University of Western Australia in Arts and Law, Rabia Siddique is a lawyer and an international humanitarian. She is a public figure and appears regularly in the media as a panelist on The Drum and a guest panelist on Q&A. She is also a frequent guest in podcasts and on radio.

Rabia worked abroad for 13 years as a legal officer in the British Army and as a Crown Advocate in the Counter Terrorism Division of the Crown Prosecution Service. Following her overseas roles, Rabia returned to Western Australia where she worked as a Legal Counsel to the WA Commissioner of Police and as Principal Lawyer for the Corruption and Crime Commission WA.

For the last 8 years, Rabia has run her own business as a global leadership and resilience consultant, inspirational speaker, mentor and media commentator. She is a committed advocate, philanthropist and is a non-Executive board member of the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance, Wesley College, Calan Wiliams Racing and the International Foundation of Non-Violence.

Rabia is a hostage survivor and mother of 12 year-old triplet boys.