Leadership Team

Carl McLennan

Chief Executive Officer

Carl McLennan is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA). With a distinguished career in policing and leadership, Carl brings extensive experience from his senior roles with New Zealand Police—including Acting Assistant Commissioner: Iwi and Community, Senior Liaison Officer to Australia, and Executive Director of the Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police Secretariat. Since being appointed Chief Executive Officer in October 2025, he has demonstrated strategic insight, strong collaboration, and a deep commitment to empowering policing across Australia and New Zealand. Carl leads the ANZPAA team in strengthening partnerships and enhancing capability, ensuring police have the tools, knowledge, and collaboration needed to serve communities safely and effectively.

Directors

Sophie Goldsmith

Director, National Institute of Forensic Science (ANZPAA NIFS)

Sophie's previous positions include senior advisory roles at the Bureau of Meteorology, the Attorney-General’s Department, and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She has extensive operational forensic experience, nationally and internationally. As Director, Sophie leads the ANZPAA NIFS team in addressing key priorities and challenges in forensic science, promoting and facilitating excellence across Australia and New Zealand.

Andrea McBeth

Director, ANZPAA

Andrea McBeth is Director, ANZPAA and a highly regarded executive and legal professional with more than 25 years of leadership experience in policing. She leads a multidisciplinary team delivering policy, advice and research that supports cross jurisdictional collaboration and policing excellence across Australia and New Zealand. Andrea is known for translating insight into practical action, with a strong focus on capability, performance and community outcomes. 

Assistant Directors

Dean Catoggio

Assistant Director, NIFS

Dean manages the delivery of the NIFS work program and projects, stakeholder engagement and contributes to strategic planning and establishing and developing best practice procedures, systems and programs.

Louise Cleary

Assistant Director, Corporate Services

Louise is the Assistant Director, Corporate Services at ANZPAA, leading the agency’s HR, finance, IT, governance, communications and conference functions. She oversees key contracts, business services and organisational delivery, helping ensure strong operational performance and aligned outcomes across the agency. She works closely with teams across ANZPAA to support strategic priorities, strengthen governance and drive continuous improvement in a complex stakeholder environment.

Jacqueline Durand

Assistant Director, Policy and Projects

Jacqui manages the Policy and Projects Team. Jacqui and her team develop, review and assist in the implementation of policies and strategies relating to a range of contemporary policing issues. She also oversees the review of cross-jurisdictional instruments, police education and training materials.

Dr Jacqueline Woerner

Assistant Director, Innovation & Research

Jacqui leads our Innovation and Research team in delivering key initiatives under the ANZPAA Annual Plan and oversees our strategic foresight and futures program, supporting futures thinking capability across policing in Australia and New Zealand. She  also plays an important role in supporting the development and delivery of the ANZPAA five-year strategy, including identifying emerging issues and contributing to strategic reform across the policing environment.

Organisational Structure