Louise McElvogue
I am a non-executive director with a focus on corporate governance of agentic AI. I am a Founding Consortium member of AIUC-1, the first certification standard for AI agents. I sit on the board of the ABC, where I chair the Audit and Risk Committee, and of Cluey Learning (ASX: CLU), where I chair the Remuneration Committee.
Through my advisory firm, With Fluency, I work with boards and executives on AI governance and strategy.
Board roles
- ABC: Non-Executive Director. Chair, Audit and Risk Committee.
- Cluey Learning (ASX: CLU): Non-Executive Director. Chair, Remuneration Committee.
- AIUC-1: Founding Consortium member. AIUC-1 is the first certification standard for AI agents.
- Rhodes Scholarship: NSW Selection Panel.
- Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, University of Sydney: inaugural Advisory Board member.
- Australian Institute of Company Directors: Technology and Innovation Governance Panel; National Education Advisory Committee.
- Healthdirect Australia, the Commonwealth and state digital health service that set up Australia's COVID-19 hotline and vaccination gateway.
- WhiteHawk Ltd (ASX: WHK), US-based cybersecurity platform: Non-Executive Director.
- Convergence Review Committee: panel of three appointed by the Australian Government to review media and technology regulation.
- Australian Institute of Company Directors: former President, NSW Council.
- Sydney Living Museums: Trustee.
AI governance
Boards answer for the AI agents their organisations deploy. OpenAI’s breach of an Australian Medicare portal was a wakeup call that boards need to change their governance approach. Agents are delegates, not just software.
Governing Autonomy: Board Accountability and Agentic AI
I developed the paper with contributions from the AIUC-1 Consortium, AI researchers and board members in healthcare, financial services, consumer and media companies.
The paper sets out three priorities for boards:
- Turn AI principles into controls. A board-approved framework with clear accountabilities, thresholds, reporting and escalation.
- Understand agentic AI. Directors need enough shared fluency to decide what authority can be delegated and ensure effective oversight.
- Own AI governance. Agree the boundaries for agent decisions in advance, and settle with management who owns which decisions and when they are escalated.
It also includes a Board AI Agent Governance Checklist and an Agent Classification Model that directors can take into a board or risk committee meeting.
Read the whitepaperEducation
- Center for AI Safety: AI Safety, Ethics and Society
- BlueDot Impact: AI Governance, Future of AI, AGI Strategy
- AI Fluency Sprint, University of Sydney
- Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors
- BA Communications, UTS
- MA Creative Writing, Goldsmiths
- Co-creator, Master of Digital Marketing, UTS Business School
with fluency
With Fluency is my advisory firm. We work with boards and senior leaders on AI governance and strategy, and we run workshops that give directors and executive teams a working understanding of AI agents and how to ensure board and management governance work in tandem.
Visit withfluency.comBackground
I have worked in technology and media for 30 years, in the US, UK and Australia. Experience includes:
- Launched more than 20 digital products for companies from McDonald's to the UK's first video streaming services, working with Channel 4 and the BBC.
- CEO of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, which trains and represents more than 30,000 specialist doctors.
- CEO of medtech company 1st Group.
- Industry Professor at UTS Business School creating online degrees.
- Journalist, producer and editor in London, Washington DC and New York for outlets including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, FT Media, The Sunday Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian and CNN Business News.
Contact
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