Dr Sue Silberberg is an academic historian and heritage consultant with a doctorate from the University of Melbourne. She was also educated at Monash University, Deakin University and the International Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Material (ICCROM). Previously she worked in London and in Victoria as a curator and museum director, specialising in historic buildings. Sue is the author of A Networked Community: Jewish Melbourne in the Nineteenth Century (2020), which considers the Jewish community’s influence on the development of colonial Melbourne.