Moira Rayner

Senior Associate Consultant

Moira Rayner is a senior and experienced lawyer, particularly in the high-risk area of workplace behaviours.  She is also a senior associate consultant to Diversity @ Work on special projects and inquiries.

Until June 2005 she was Special Counsel and Deputy Managing Director of the Council for Equal Opportunity in Employment Limited, an employer EO network established by the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, where she was responsible for the CEOE's growing investigation practice and managing its Melbourne office. She teaches in a postgraduate discrimination law course as a Senior Fellow at Melbourne's Law School. She also has postgraduate qualifications in public policy, which she has used in several statutory offices including chair of the WA Law Reform Commission (1998-99) and Acting Corruption and Crime Commissioner in WA.

Moira Rayner is best known in Victoria where she was Commissioner for Equal Opportunity. She has also been Deputy Director (Research) of the Australian Institute of Family Studies; a Hearings Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; a consultant in the national law firm Dunhill Madden Butler (now Deacons) where she helped establish the firm's Discrimination Law Practice and worked with major employers, universities and government departments.

In 2000 she accepted an appointment as the first Director of the Office of Children's Rights Commissioner for London, which modeled effective children's participation in government and is now an integral part of the Greater London Authority, London's new regional government. In the late 1980s she was the first woman to chair Western Australia's Law Reform Commission. Before then she was the Senior Partner in a small law firm she established in 1975.