Fellow of Senate
Kim Anderson
BA Syd Dip Lib Information Science UTS
Fellow of Senate, 2004 -
Kim Anderson has been a Fellow of Senate of the University of Sydney since 2004, and was appointed by Senate at its meeting on 5 February 2007 for a new two year term of office concluding at the end of February 2009.
Kim is currently a member of Senate's Audit and Risk Management Committee and its Investment and Commercialisation Committee. She was formerly a member of Senate's Advisory Committee for Honorary Awards and its Finance and Infrastructure Committee.
Kim's career spans a wide range of media development including book, magazine and newspaper publishing, online media, mobile and free to air television including digital and interactive formats. Kim was General Manager of Southern Cross View to 2007. Prior to joining Southern Star Kim was Director of Strategy and Technology at the Nine Network, where she was responsible for the strategic and wireless development of existing and new television formats, including viewer engagement strategies using wireless and premium services, and the first fully interactive sporting applications on digital television. Prior to this Kim was Director of Business Development for PBL where she was seconded to ninemsn to develop and implement strategies for both the marketing and content divisions – of what is now Australia’s most popular and profitable web portal.
In 1995 Kim returned from the US where she was VP and Publishing Director of Harper Collins Interactive, part of the News Corp Group, based in New York. She was instrumental in establishing the Advanced Media Group, set up to integrate and work with the other News Corp companies in order to develop a new media strategy.
Originally based in Sydney as Non-fiction Publisher for HarperCollins, Kim has worked for a variety of book publisher and Newspaper proprietors, including John Fairfax and Sons, Prentice Hall, Grolier and Kevin Weldon and Associates.
Kim has also lectured part time in Publishing at Macquarie University and has written for major newspapers and magazines. She is a retired member of the Expert Advisory Committee (Humanities) for the ARC.
