Jamila Gordon

"I came from a culture where women didn’t work so to watch this young woman finish university and get a job at the ATO was inspirational. I wanted to be exactly like her."

"I had one programming elective and I fell in love with it. A lecturer at the university said you’re obviously good at programming, just follow your passion."

"It is crucial that a board be made up of people whose thinking is informed by different experiences, backgrounds, and areas of expertise, this diversity allows the board to help the business to come up with better strategies, to ask better questions and to better reflect the diversity of its customers."

"When I’ve had setbacks, I’ve always been able to put them in perspective. I always make sure no matter what that I am on top of my brief and I understand my space. But I do want to see things change to a point where women can genuinely play on a level playing field to men."

"The village where I was born was very desolate, dusty, we had water in the wells."

"My mother was pregnant every year, or she had a baby. In the end, she had 16 children."

"The process I used to memorise the Koran in the village where I was born, was exactly the same as the process of software programming that I used when I was at Latrobe University."