Dominique Hogan-Doran SC

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

• The Legal 500 - Australia Bar: Commercial Disputes (Leading Silk, Band 1)

• The Legal 500 - Australia Bar: Regulatory (including White Collar Crime) (Leading Silk, Band 1)

• Best Lawyers/Australian Financial Review - Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Financial Institutions, Superannuation Law (Lawyer of the Year in Superannuation Law Sydney, 2023 and 2025)

• Chambers & Partners - Global & Asia Pacific Guides: Dispute Resolution - The Bar (Band 4)

• LawyersWeekly Australian Law Awards - ‘Barrister of the Year’ (2016)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ROLES

• Australian Academy of Law - Fellow

• Governance Institute of Australia - Fellow

• International Bar Association - Bar Regulation Committee (Chair) and Forum for Barristers and Advocates (Co-Vice-Chair)

• Law Council of Australia - Superannuation Law Committee - Co-opted Member

Dominique was previously a member of the:

• Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand Disciplinary Tribunal (2021-2024) and Professional Conduct Committee (2018-2021)

• Australian Institute of Company Directors Law Committee (2018-2022)

• Australian Bar Association Practice Development Committee (2022-2024) (Chair) & Futures Committee (2019-2021) (Chair)

• NSW Bar Council and the NSW Barristers’ Benevolent Fund (2019-2020)

Dominique is also a past President of Australian Women Lawyers (2002-2003) and the Women Lawyers Association of NSW (1999-2001).

DISPUTE PANEL APPOINTMENTS

Arbitral Panels

• Australian Energy Regulator

• National Broadband Network (Wholesale Access Disputes)

• Essential Services Commission of South Australia

• Economic Regulatory Authority of Western Australia

• Asian International Arbitration Centre

BOARD DIRECTORSHIPS

Dominique is a Director of Natural Hazards Research Australia, the national research organisation for natural hazards resilience and disaster risk reduction. She is a member of the Audit, Risk & Compliance committee, and the Statekholder Engagement working group. Her 2022 appointment followed her work as Senior Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements in 2020.

Dominique also serves on the boards of Australian Cricket’s $115 million retirement investment fund (since 2019), and its new Players Cordon public benevolent foundation (since 2023), where she is Chair of the Governance Committee. Her appointments follow her terms as a trustee director of $3.5bn APRA/ASIC regulated industry superfund Club Plus Super, where she also served on the Audit, Risk & Compliance, the Investments, & Insurance & Claims committees.

Dominique is also a former director of the Menzies Memorial Foundation and the National Foundation of Australian Women.

As a university student, Dominique was elected as a Director and later President of the University of Sydney Union, as well as a member of the University’s Academic Board.

ACADEMIA

Dominique received a Bachelor of Economics (Social Sciences) (1990) and Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours (1992) from the University of Sydney, where she was awarded the Nancy Gordon Smith Prize at Graduation (graduating 3rd in year), the Phillips Fox John L Mant Scholarship, the Tress Cox Maddox Scholarship, the Aaron Levine Prize for Criminal Law, and several Walter Reid proficiency prizes. She was also a student editor of the Sydney Law Review and of the Criminal Law Journal and Director of Mooting.

Dominique was elected President of the University of Sydney Union in 1990, and in 1993 was awarded the University of Sydney Convocation Medal in recognition of her ‘outstanding academic achievement and contribution to University life’.

Dominique subsequently was awarded the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Law to study at the University of Oxford, where she read at Balliol College and received a Bachelor of Civil Law with First Class Honours (1995).

She later completed a part-time Master of Laws with the University of Sydney (2004).

Dominique has completed short courses including the Harvard Program on Negotiation and Leadership, the American University Washington College of Law program on International and US Anti-Corruption Law, and the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediator’s Practitioner’s Certificate in Mediation.

From 2016 to 2019, Dominique was an Adjunct Associate Professor contributing to the University of New South Wale’s Centre for Law, Markets, and Regulation. She was previously an Adjunct Lecturer for the Australian Graduate School of Management’s Executive MBA (2000-2002).

Dominique is currently a Guest Lecturer for:

• the University of Sydney’s postgraduate law course Financial Services Law Compliance and

• Melbourne University’s postgraduate law course Superannuation Law and Regulation.