Dr Jane Munday was born and raised in Adelaide, worked in Melbourne as a journalist, then moved to the Territory in 1994, where she worked in senior government communication and marketing positions, including 4 years in the Department of the Chief Minister. In 2004, she set up a strategic communication consultancy (sold in 2015) and now works part-time as senior advisor to True North Strategic Communication.

Over the past 20 years, Jane has worked on public and private impact assessments throughout the Territory as a community engagement and SIA consultant. Her PhD on social and cultural impact assessment included an audit of all impact assessment studies in the NT since 1974 and evaluation of what constitutes quality assessment. She has been a member of the EIANZ’s SIA community of practice and a SIA certification committee. She is a member of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), on the IAIA Awards Committee, has served on two conference program committees, and is a mentor/trainer for the IAIA online SIA course. She has produced a Guide to Social Impact Assessment and is a regular presenter at IAIA and EIANZ conferences. Qualifications include a PhD, MBA, GAICD, BA (Psychology) and Certificates in SIA and Community Engagement/Public Participation. She is Deputy Chair of Territory Natural Resource Management (TNRM) and on the Attorney-General’s Community Benefit Fund.