Judy Slatyer
CEO, Lonely Planet

Judy Slatyer holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Canberra and a MBA from the University of Sydney Graduate School of Business.

Judy commenced her recent career in politics, where she worked as a policy advisor with the Labour Federal Government for Ralph Willis (Federal Minister and Member for Gellibrand) for four years. This role involved developing policies on industrial relations, micro-economic change in the transport and communications industries and federal budget and fiscal management.

Judy then joined Telstra (Australia's largest telecommunications provider) in the international group where her focus was on business development opportunities in the Asia Pacific region for three years. She then spent four years working on the establishment of FOXTEL (Pay television operator) and then became the Chief of Consumer Sales, responsible for over $4 billion in revenue.

In 2001, Judy left Telstra and became involved with a US technology company, ArrayComm, to launch a new broadband internet technology in Australia - a world first. From nothing, she, along with two other executives established a small company in Australia which, at the time she took on the Lonely Planet role, was capitalised at $40 million.

Judy joined Lonely Planet in April 2003 as Executive Director and Chief Executive