Grant Stewart

Grant has a background in plumbing and education as well as strong links to WorldSkills. After competing at the WorldSkills competition in 1997, Grant has worked in many roles in WorldSkills up to Chief expert in Plumbing and now as Assistant Technical delegate for Australia. Grant worked full time as a Plumber and a Plumbing teacher in various regions of Australia throughout this time. Working in Zimbabwe on building classrooms, toilets and furniture projects in schools in the late 1990’s led to a strong interest in water and sanitation projects and the sharing of skills that continues throughout developing regions around the world.

Grant joined IAPMO in late 2013 and has worked with the World Plumbing Council, Healthabitat, RMIT and WorldSkills Foundation on many projects including Sanitation Studios in Nepal and the Community Plumbing Challenge in India, South Africa and Indonesia.

Bob Puffett AM. Past Director.

Bob has worked in the public education and training sector as a teacher, Head of School, Principal, Director of Industrial Relations, Staff and EEO. He was appointed Director of the Sydney Institute of Technology (TAFE) and later the Assistant Director General (TAFE). Following his successful career in the public sector Bob was elected Chairman of WorldSkills Australia and was Australia’s Official Delegate to the International WorldSkills Movement. Bob is currently a non-executive Director of the Hunter Valley Training Company (HVTC), Australia’s oldest and most prestigious Group Training Company.

Bob has a passion for skills development and skills excellence. He has spent a lifetime involved with training young people to strive for excellence and to be proud of their trade and themselves.

He has been instrumental in establishing companies to train people in Malaysia and in Australia.

Bob is the Patron of the Central Coast Campus Friends Group promoting post-secondary education and training and is an active advocate within his community.

He was honoured with being made a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Technical Education and as Director of the Sydney Institute of Technology. He is a qualified plumber, has a degree in Education and is coordinator of the text book series Plumbing Services Vol 1,2,3,4.

Adriano Pupilli

Adriano is committed to thoughtful design and architecture with a strong focus on people and place, believing that good design and innovation should be accessible to everyone, not just a privileged few.

Adriano Pupilli established his architecture practice in 2010 building on a wealth of experience gained locally and internationally working on private, public and humanitarian architectural projects. A key formative experience was working with Paul Pholeros both in his architectural practice and in Healthabitat. It was this role that would provide Adriano with first hand experience working with underserved communities in remote and regional Australia, Nepal, India and Indonesia. During this role Adriano gained a deep appreciation for the link between the built environment with the health outcomes of the occupants, and the responsibility we have as designers to the communities we work within.

Since 2010 Adriano has built a successful architectural practice delivering carefully considered residential, commercial and public projects to clients and stakeholders. During this time he has continued developing his passion for working with marginalised communities and to increase the agency of architects in service to a greater portion of society. Across all scales of projects Adriano’s design approach is people focused, creating living breathing buildings that promote occupant wellbeing and joy.

David Bartolo

David is passionate about the use of new technologies in education to enhance the learning experience. He has worked in Digital Media for many years as an educator and producer of content, and in 2011 was awarded a NSW Premiers Logitech New and Emerging Technologies Scholarship, taking him to China, the UK and US, studying ubiquitous learning across portable devices.

He has been a judge for the AIMIA awards for several years, and holds qualifications in Interaction Design, Engineering, Communications, Education, eLearning and TEFL.

David was awarded Sydney University’s Postgraduate Design Computing Prize, and has also received a NSW Quality Teaching Award.

David has been involved with WorldSkills since 2015 as a judge and expert. He worked with Paul Pholeros on a project for the Venice Biennale, creating an interactive installation around environmental architecture, and again on an Internet of Things initiative, gathering water usage data from Diepsloot in Johannesburg, to assist with water management and maintenance of plumbing facilities.

David has lectured at UTS, Sydney University and COFA, and currently develops online courses in Digital Media and Gaming at TAFE NSW.

Sandra Meihubers AM Chair PPF

Sandra has spent much of her dental career working with Aboriginal people in Australia and has a deep commitment to delivering dental care and training to communities considered outside of the “mainstream”.  She has been instrumental in establishing and running remote area Aboriginal community controlled dental services, training Aboriginal Health Workers in dental care and prevention, advising governments on policy, developing materials to support remote area dental practitioners, and creating national and international networks of like minded practitioners.

Sandra has taught in TAFE and university dental programs, and derives great satisfaction from watching the growth and development of confidence in people who sometimes undervalue themselves.

Since 2000 her skills and experiences, with a strong focus on projects developed and grounded in the target communities, have spread to projects in Nepal, Timor L’este and Bangladesh.   The Nepal dental work has been married to a village based sanitation program since 2007, this “teeth and toilets” focus affording opportunities to address basic hygiene issues as well as providing the value added benefit of dental care.

In 2017 Sandra was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia AM.