P&F Association Years 9 and 10 Parent/Daughter Breakfast

Students in Years 9 and 10 and a parent/carer are warmly invited to attend the Parent/Daughter Breakfast:

We are thrilled to welcome back to SCEGGS Old Girl Harriet Dawson (BATEMAN 2006) as our guest speaker.

Harriet is a Director in EY’s Government practice. Her love of complex problem-solving and public policy started when her Year 10 SCEGGS team won the national Future Problem Solving Finals in 2004, the same year she completed work experience at Parliament House, Canberra.

During her time at SCEGGS, Harriet was a member of the rowing team and Theatre Club, and received an Academic Merit Prize at speech night in 2005. She was a keen member of 306 Squadron Australian Air Force Cadets, placing third in the national Junior Non-Commissioned Officer Course at RAAF Wagga in 2004, being promoted to Cadet Under Officer and receiving the Sherwood Trophy for Leadership in 2006.

After doing ‘pretty well’ at the HSC (according to her mum), she moved to Canberra in 2007 to study International Relations at the Australian National University where she received the Cambridge University Press Lecturer’s Prize for International Relations. Harriet was a Delegate to the National Student Leadership Forum in 2008, and to the US-Australia Student Symposium in conjunction with the International Scholar Laureate Program in 2008 and 2009.

In 2024, Harriet moved back to Sydney and was nominated for the Pathways to Politics Program through the Trawalla Foundation, designed to improve women’s representation and participation in politics and public office.

To hear more about Harriet’s career journey and her fascinating insights, join us on Friday 16 May!