Louise was appointed Executive Director of RIAA in 2002. She has worked in senior management roles in the not for profit sector in Australia, the United States and Britain including General Manager of Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, and General Manager of the Australian National Playwrights Centre. She has an MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, a BA in journalism from Charles Sturt University and spent three years in postgraduate studies at UNSW in business ethics. Louise is a Governor of WWF and in November 2006 she was chosen to be trained by Al Gore to deliver his slide show on climate change.