Helen Zimmerman is a Member of the Anacacia Capital Business Advisory Council and former Non-Executive Director of Anacacia portfolio company, Catalyst Education.  Helen was formerly a senior executive at Navitas, an Australian global education provider. Prior to joining Navitas she was Managing Director of ACL, Australia’s largest private provider of English language education. At both ACL and Navitas Helen was a leading advocate for international and domestic education policy and regulatory issues across the English language, vocational and higher education sectors.

Helen is an experienced board member. She is the current Chair of the Australian Government’s Tuition Protection Service, VSL Tuition Protection Fund and HELP Tuition Protection Fund Advisory Boards. She was a member of the NSW Skills Board from December 2018 to March 2021. From 2015 to May 2019 Helen served on the Jobs for NSW Board. She was a director, and then Chair of the Australian Business and Community Network, a not-for-profit organisation that connects businesses with high-need schools and learners through mentoring and partnership programs from 2011 to late 2017, and now is a member of the ABCN Foundation board. 
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Helen was a foundation board member of the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) in 2004 and was President from 2012-2014, representing the peak body overseas and within Australia. In 2017 she was awarded the International Education Association of Australia’s Distinguished Contribution Award for a colleague who has led groundbreaking initiatives to improve international education in Australia and was awarded life membership in 2022.

Helen was an Honorary Senior Fellow of the LH Martin Institute of the University of Melbourne and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.