Kirsty Windeyer

DIRECTOR, AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Kirsty Windeyer is the Domestic Family and Sexual Violence Coordinator-General in the ACT since April 2020. She provides strategic leadership that supports whole-of-government collaboration and coordination of the government’s response to domestic, family and sexual violence. The Coordinator-General role works across government and with the community services sectors to develop new police services and approaches that improve how the ACT Government responds to domestic, family and sexual violence.

Kirsty has significant experience as a senior executive lawyer and in leadership roles for public sector organisations. Kirsty was the CEO of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory and Special Counsel/Executive Director of the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce. Kirsty was the inaugural Principal Solicitor of the ACT Women’s Legal Centre.

Appointed Director, Australian Capital Territory February 2023.