Belinda Bentley

Biography: Belinda is the Managing Director of 9Springs, a leading Australian property investment, advisory and development project management group. With over 20 years’ experience, Belinda specialises in unlocking the development value of underutilised assets to facilitate the delivery of transformative projects. In the past three years, Belinda has contributed to more than A$2b of infill and greenfield developments across social infrastructure, seniors housing, community housing (social, affordable, transitional and crisis), build-to-rent, residential, student accommodation, healthcare, industrial, commercial and circular economy (waste and recycling infrastructure). With over a decade in the community housing sector, Belinda is a Non-Executive Director of Link Wentworth Housing, one of Australia’s largest Community Housing Providers servicing 10,000 residents living in 6,400 social, affordable and specialist disability accommodation homes. Belinda is an honorary Adjunct Associate Professor (Industry) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and is Chair of the School of Built Environment’s Industry Advisory Board. Belinda is the Co-Chair of the ULI Asia Pacific Awards for Excellence Jury and an Appointed Member of the ULI Asia Pacific Housing Council. Belinda is the recipient of the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Alumni Award, Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) National and NSW Women in Leadership Awards for Excellence, National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) NSW Business Woman of the Year Award and the Asialink and ANU Centre of Asian-Australian Leadership (CAAL) Asian-Australian Leadership Award (Entrepreneurship Category Winner).