Thérèse Rein is the Managing Director of the Ingeus group of companies, a private provider of employment services that started over 20 year ago by assisting disabled and injured people to renter the workforce. Ingeus now operates across the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and South Korea and each year assists tens of thousands of socially and financially excluded people into independence through finding suitable sustained employment.
Thérèse is a trained Psychologist, with a Bachelor of Arts and Masters Qualifying (Psych) from ANU Canberra. She met her husband, the Hon Kevin Rudd when they were both students at ANU, and they have three children: Jessica, Nicholas and Marcus.
Ms Rein is the Patron of a number of organisations working in the areas of homelessness, disability, indigenous literacy and maternal health, as well as a member of the Honorary Board of the International Paralympic Committee. She is also the current Australian Human Rights Medal holder awarded for her ongoing work and commitment to celebrating and improving the lives of people with a disability and their carers.
Ms Rein first visited Arts Project Australia in 2009. As a lover of art, she was immediately impressed with the work in the studio and gallery, the best practice model that fosters the growth of artists with intellectual disabilities and the joy experienced by all involved. She became Patron in November 2010.
(Pictured above: Thérèse Rein with Arts Project artists Jodie Noble and Nick Capaldo)
