Adele is a qualified and experienced manager with expertise in research, facilitation, project management, stakeholder and community engagement, strategic planning, and report writing. She has had extensive experience in local government having spent nine years from 2005 to 2014 as the Group Manager for Community and Culture with the Glenelg Shire Council, and the previous nine years as the Chief Executive Officer of the Glenelg Regional Library Corporation. She has a PhD in Management and a Master’s Degree in Education and has worked in South West Victoria for the past 20 years.