Geographical Names Board

Narelle Underwood

NSW Surveyor-General (Chair)

Narelle Underwood is Surveyor-General of NSW and chair of the GNB. Narelle is also the Executive Director DCS-Spatial Services, part of the NSW Department of Customer Service.

A graduate of UNSW, Narelle has nearly 20 years’ experience across land development, infrastructure delivery, government policy and regulation having worked in both private industry and NSW public service. 

Narelle is a champion for women in leadership and STEM based careers. She was featured in the 2018 BLAZE Working Women, Public Leaders exhibition and was also listed in the inaugural NSW Top 50 Public Sector Women. In 2019 she was announced as a winner of the Emerging Leader in the Government or Public Sector category of the national Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards for her influence, leadership and contribution to the community. 

Lauryn Bae Brokate 

Representing Department of Customer Service (Deputy Chair) 

Lauryn Bae Brokate commenced as the Executive Director, Strategy in the Office of the Secretary, NSW Department of Customer Service in July 2021. Before this, Lauryn worked as Chief of Staff to the Secretary, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet.  

Prior to joining the NSW public service, Lauryn held leadership roles in the Commonwealth public service, including at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the former Department of Families, Housing, Community Service and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA).  

Lauryn holds a Master of International Public Health from the University of NSW and an honours degree in International Development from La Trobe University. 

Garry Hopkins

Representing Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure 

Garry Hopkins is the Director Western Region, Planning, Land Use Strategy and Housing, at the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure. 

Garry is an experienced planner having worked with the NSW planning department for over 28 years. His work has covered environmental assessment and natural resource policy together with strategic and statutory planning at both regional and local scales. Garry is passionate about planning’s ability to support ecologically sustainable places that meet community aspirations while protecting areas of environmental sensitivity. With a keen interest in Australian history and geography Garry has a particular interest in the Board’s role in Aboriginal place naming.

Cr. Dallas Donnelly 

Representing NSW Aboriginal Land Council 

Dallas Donnelly is a Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr man from Grafton. He previously served as the NSWALC North Coast Regional Councillor, was the CEO of the Grafton-Ngerrie, Baryulgil Square and Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Councils and an ATSIC Regional Councillor. 

Richard Neville 

Representing State Library 

Richard Neville is the Mitchell Librarian and Director, Engagement at the State Library of NSW. With a research background in nineteenth century Australian art and culture, he curated numerous exhibitions and published widely on colonial art and society. He has also been extensively involved in the acquisition, arrangement, description and promotion of the Library’s renowned Australian research collections. 

Simon Chan 

Representing Multicultural NSW 

Simon Chan is the Director and Founder of Art Atrium, an art gallery exhibiting contemporary Australian, Asian and Aboriginal art and he is also a practising architect and Director of SCA Architects. Simon has been involved in a broad range of not for profit Foundations and community organisations. Simon is a Director on the Board of VisAsia at Art Gallery of NSW, Council member of the Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture at The University of Sydney, Board member of Multicultural NSW Advisory Board, Director on the Board of Parramasala and Board member of the Australian National Maritime Museum Foundation Board. Simon is also the President of Haymarket Chamber of Commerce, Committee Member of the NSW Government Chinese Garden of Friendship Advisory Committee, Director and former Chair on the Board of Aboriginal Benefits Foundation, Executive Committee Member of Contemporary Asian Australian Performance, Community Representative and member of the Woollahra Council Cultural Committee. Simon is a member of the Sydney Water Community Advisory Committee and the Public Officer and Executive Committee member of Chinese Australian Forum. Simon was the recipient of the inaugural NSW Premier's Multicultural Award for Arts & Culture in 2013.  

Alice Glachan 

Representing Local Government 

Cr Glachan moved to Albury from Gilgandra as a six-year-old. Her father's career as an engineer in the Merchant Navy encouraged her to follow a similar path.

She joined the Navy Cadets in Year 12 and was the inaugural cadet unit leader. She completed an Arts Degree, majoring in Psychology and Geography as well as two Education qualifications before working as an Instructor Officer with the Royal Australian Navy.

It was here she met her husband Nicholas, an RN Officer. They lived in England for eight years, where Alice worked as an Academic Registrar and their two sons Fergus and Oscar were born.  They returned to Albury in 2001 and Alice worked as an Administrative Officer at La Trobe University before opening the Beacon Lighting franchise in Albury in 2007.

Cr Glachan was elected to Council in 2004 and served as Deputy Mayor for one term and then four consecutive terms as Mayor. Having been a Rotary Exchange Student she is now actively involved in Rotary and comes from a political family, as the daughter of former State Member for Albury Ian Glachan. Cr Glachan is a recipient of a 'Paul Harris Fellow', awarded by the Rotary Foundation.   

Carol Liston AO 

Representing Royal Australian Historical Society 

Carol Liston AO is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Western Sydney University. She is former president of the Royal Australian Historical Society and co-editor of its Journal.

Her research covers early colonial history in New South Wales, with interests in people (convict, colonial born and free immigrant), local history, heritage and the built environment. Her particular interest is the colonial development of the County of Cumberland.

Her publications include histories of Campbelltown, Parramatta and Liverpool, biographies of Sarah Wentworth, Thomas Brisbane and accounts of social life under Governor Macquarie and the convict women at the Female Factory, Parramatta.

Her current research project with Dr Kathrine Reynolds is an investigation of convict women transported from Britain to New South Wales between 1800 and 1836. 

Dr Alanna Kamp 

Representing Geographical Society of NSW 

Dr Alanna Kamp (BA BSc (UNSW); PhD (WSU)) represents the Geographical Society of NSW on the Geographical Names Board. Dr Kamp is Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. She is academic member of the Challenging Racism Project (WSU), Diversity and Human Rights Research Centre (WSU), Young and Resilient Research Centre (WSU), and think-tank consortium Centre of Resilient and Inclusive Societies.  

Dr Kamp’s teaching and research contributions lie in the areas of Australian multiculturalism and cultural diversity, experiences of migration and settlement, racism and anti-racism, national identity, citizenship and intersectional experiences of belonging/exclusion. Her work utilises national-level quantitative methods as well as smaller-scale qualitative techniques that are influenced by multi-disciplinary research (post-colonialism, feminism, history, diaspora etc).