Cr Philippa Scott 

Director - Metro/Urban
Inner West Council

Philippa Scott is a lifelong Inner West local and an experienced governance, policy and management professional, committed to social justice.

In 2021, she was elected as a Labor Councillor for the Gulgadya Ward (Leichhardt) of Inner West Council. Philippa is a Board Director of Metro Assist, a migrant resource centre serving the Inner West and Canterbury-Bankstown LGAs, and is President of Sydney Secondary College P&C.

Before politics, Philippa worked as a governance and policy manager in the university sector for ten years, and still holds a position as a senior manager at the University of Technology Sydney, where she works on strategic programs to enhance the student experience.

Philippa holds a combined Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws degree from the Australian National University, a Master of Laws (Honours) degree from UTS and a Master of Education degree from the George Washington University in Washington D.C.

She has devoted her whole career to providing legal and management advice to the not-for-profit and public sector. In Australia she has worked for the University of Sydney, the Guardianship Tribunal of NSW (now a part of the NSW Department of Justice), and Salvos Legal Humanitarian. While living in the USA for several years, she worked for Harvard University, the Massachusetts Disability Law Center, and the Human Services Research Institute.

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