23 Facts About Lucy Turnbull

Lucinda Mary Turnbull is an Australian businesswoman, philanthropist, and former local government politician.

Lucy Turnbull has since held positions on a number of urban planning bodies, including as chief commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission from 2015 to 2020.

Lucy Turnbull was educated at Kincoppal-Rose Bay, Frensham School in Mittagong, Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1982.

Lucy Turnbull holds a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management of the University of New South Wales.

In September 2017, Lucy Turnbull received an honorary Doctorate of Letters for her substantial and sustained service and contribution to the University and to the Greater Western Sydney region.

Lucy Turnbull was elected to Council in 1999 on the Living Sydney independent platform and was immediately elevated to the position of Deputy Lord Mayor, serving under Lord Mayor Frank Sartor.

Lucy Turnbull was appointed as one of three Commissioners assigned with the responsibility of establishing a new governance structure for the merged council entity.

Lucy Turnbull was appointed on 25 February 2022 as a Non-Executive Director of ASX listed Immutep.

Lucy Turnbull has a long-standing interest in cities and their planning, governance and management, as well as the importance of technological innovation to the national economy.

Lucy Turnbull is a former board member of the Australian Technology Park, Redfern.

From 2004 until 2011, Lucy Turnbull served as Deputy Chair of the Committee for Sydney, a think tank for Greater Sydney representing public, private and not-for-profit sectors and focused on the future of the metropolitan city, and chaired it from 2011 until 2015.

Lucy Turnbull is a former deputy chair of the Council of Australian Governments City Expert Advisory Panel, which reported to the COAG Reform Council.

Lucy Turnbull serves on boards of the Biennale of Sydney, the Redfern Foundation Limited and the Turnbull Foundation.

Lucy Turnbull is the Patron of DICE Kids, an organisation created at Policy Hack in 2015 and Patron of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Lucy Turnbull is a board member of the NSW Cancer Institute.

Lucy Turnbull has previously chaired the Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation, the Sydney Cancer Centre and the Sydney Festival Limited.

On 26 January 2011, Lucy Turnbull was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for her distinguished service to the community, particularly through philanthropic contributions to, and fundraising support for, a range of medical, social welfare, educational, youth and cultural organisations, to local government, and to business.

In 2012, Lucy Turnbull was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Business by the University of NSW, and in 2016 was appointed adjunct professor at the Faculty of Built Environment, University of NSW.

Lucy Turnbull chaired the Committee for Sydney from 2012 to 2015.

Lucy Turnbull was appointed chair of the Sydney Opera House Trust, commencing 1 January 2021.

Hughes and Lucy Turnbull were married on 22 March 1980 in Cumnor, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom by a Church of England priest, despite Lucy Turnbull then being Presbyterian and Hughes Roman Catholic.

Malcolm Lucy Turnbull was a member of the House of Representatives for Wentworth between 2004 and 2018, representing the Liberal Party.

Lucy Turnbull had two stints as the party's leader, and in that capacity, in his second term served as the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, in the Turnbull government.