The CAUL Office supports the Board in pursuing CAUL’s strategic goals and managing operations. The Office staff are responsible for implementing CAUL’s strategy, engaging in advocacy, planning and delivering events, and CAUL’s key services.
CAUL operates a connected virtual office with staff in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia.
Our team
Jane Angel
Chief Executive Officer
Jane Angel is CAUL’s Chief Executive Officer, a role she has held since November 2022. Jane leads membership and sector engagement, advocacy, operational planning, and the leadership of the CAUL Office. Prior to this, Jane held senior leadership roles in Australia and the UK in academic, public, Commonwealth and state libraries. Previous roles include Deputy Director, Resources & Technical Services, University of South Australia Library, where she was also Manager, Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, Deputy Director, Research Information Resources & Infrastructure at Defence Science and Technology, Department of Defence, and Manager, Client Services, Courts Administration Authority, South Australia.
Jane holds a BA (Hons) First Class from the Flinders University of South Australia, a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from RMIT and a Graduate Certificate in Scientific Leadership from the University of Melbourne. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and an Associate Member of the Australian Library and Information Association. Jane lives and works in Adelaide, on Kaurna land.
Angus Cook
Director, Content Procurement
Angus Cook is the Director, Content Procurement at CAUL, leading the Content Procurement Service, which operates the CAUL Consortium. He is responsible for designing and implementing programs to meet the service’s strategic objectives and is CAUL’s key negotiator for content agreements for the Australian and New Zealand higher education sectors.
Under Angus’ leadership, the Content Procurement Service has significantly expanded its open access agreements, enhancing the availability of scholarly content across various publishers and advancing open scholarship in the region. His work in strategic content procurement, access improvement initiatives, and continuous improvement of workflows and communications has been crucial in supporting CAUL’s content procurement activities. Angus has over two decades of experience in content procurement. Before joining CAUL in 2020, he worked in various sales and licensing roles for large publishers and library systems vendors. He holds a Master’s Degree in Information Management from RMIT. Angus lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on Wurundjeri land.
Jess Howie
Lead, Governance & Operations
Jess Howie is the Lead, Governance & Operations. She supports the CEO with CAUL’s governance, its Board and committees to ensure efficient and timely business activities and events for the CAUL Office.
Jess holds a Master of Information Studies from Victoria University of Wellington, a Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership Communication from the University of Waikato, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Canterbury. Jess brings nearly a decade of experience in higher education leadership, most recently in the role of Assistant Director, Open Research and Teaching and Learning at Te Iho o te Manawataki | Library at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato | The University of Waikato. Jess is based in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Arthur Smith
Associate Director, Content Procurement
Dr. Arthur Smith is CAUL’s Associate Director, Content Procurement. His work focuses on negotiating and implementing open access agreements across the CAUL Consortium. Arthur joined CAUL in 2022.
Arthur has extensive experience shaping open access policy and has held various roles in Australia and the United Kingdom. After completing his PhD and postdoctoral studies in physical and computational chemistry at The University of Queensland, he moved to the UK in 2013, and joined the University of Cambridge, as their Deputy Manager of Scholarly Communication. On return to Australia in 2021, he joined Griffith University as the Manager of Research Analytics and Policy. He has also contributed to industry groups such as the Research Council UK’s Open Access Practitioners Group, served as secretary to the UK Council of Research Repositories (UKCORR), and was a member of the cOAlition S Journal Comparison Service Advisory Panel. Arthur lives and works in Meanjin (Brisbane), on the lands of the Jagera and Turrbal people.
Dallas Mitchell
Data Analyst
Dallas Mitchell joined CAUL as a Data Analyst, after working as a data scientist within the public sector in New Zealand. Dallas’ core responsibilities at CAUL are to support the content procurement service with analytics to inform negotiations, as well as manage the statistics and analytics service to keep members up to date.
Since studying Information Systems, Dallas has been passionate about turning complex data into clear insights which are easily accessible and formatted so that anyone can understand and interpret the results. Dallas lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on Wurundjeri land.
Sonya Goldberg
Content Procurement Specialist
Sonya Goldberg undertakes procurement and consortia activities through CAUL’s Procurement Service. They bring a background in library roles spanning acquisitions, operations, and programming, with a particular interest in strategic procurement and agreements.
Working as part of CAUL’s Procurement Team, Sonya manages agreement renewal processes—liaising with vendors and institutional acquisitions staff, coordinating timelines and communications, and supporting strategic decision-making across CAUL’s consortium. Sonya has a Bachelor of Arts and Science, and a Graduate Diploma in Information and Knowledge. Sonya lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on Wurundjeri land.
Ash Barber
Lead, Strategic Communications
Ash Barber is the Lead, Strategic Communications at CAUL. Ash has extensive experience in growing relationships and communities and is deeply committed to advocacy in open and higher education. She is the co-convenor of the ASCILITE Australasian OEP Special Interest Group, co-host of the podcast Speaking of Open where she has conversations with open educators in Australasia, and chairs the board of directors for the international Open Education Conference.
Through her multifaceted experience as a librarian in higher education, she is attuned to the interests and issues affecting academic libraries in Australasia and has a keen eye for sourcing opportunities that advance sector goals. She values kindness, ethical community collaboration, and the courage to act.
Ash holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts in Creative Writing from Flinders University and a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from the University of South Australia.
Grace Daw
Engagement & Administration Officer
Grace Daw is the Engagement & Administration Officer at CAUL. She handles day-to-day administrative activities, including scheduling and organising in-person and online events, compiling and disseminating the CAUL Newsletter, uploading and updating web content, supporting CAUL’s communities of practice, maintaining membership lists, and providing general administrative support to CAUL Members and stakeholders.
Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from The University of Adelaide and a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from the University of South Australia, completed in 2018. Grace lives and works in Adelaide, on Kaurna land.
Lisa Grbin
OER Grants Project Officer
Lisa Grbin is an academic librarian and strong advocate for embedding open education principles and practices in learning, teaching, and research. Her experience spans across both public and academic libraries, where past adventures have seen her exploring systematic literature searching, research metrics, and exciting new technologies for education. Most recently, Lisa has undertaken a secondment as an Open Education Librarian at Deakin University, supporting academics in OER development, OER pedagogy and integrating OER into learning, and coordinating the Deakin OER grant program.
She is a Fellow of Higher Education, current chair of the CAVAL Research Information Group (CRIG) and holds a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from the University of South Australia. Lisa is seconded from Deakin University one day per week for 2026 and will work for CAUL from Wadawarrung Country, Victoria.
Our values
As a team, we are:
- open and transparent in all our dealings
- empowered to perform and effectively self-manage our work in a connected, distributed office
- responsive to the Board, Members, stakeholders and each other
- respectful, collegial and supportive of each other in achieving goals
- clear on the organisation’s priorities, effectively prioritising and managing expectations to achieve outcomes
- committed to the delivery of high-quality services and meaningful progress on strategic objectives.
CAUL’s Public Officer, Cathie Warburton, is situated at the CAUL Office, co-located with ALIA House at CAUL, 2/4 Makin Place, Deakin ACT 2600.