with greater commercial appeal, including books by public figures and present and former politicians, such as Gough Whitlam and Tony Abbott. The board members who resigned feared a loss of editorial independence under the new strategy. Adler was appointed publisher-at-large for Hachette Australia in September 2019. She took over as director of Adelaide Writers' Week after the March 2022 edition, when she stepped down from Hachette and began to plan for the 2023 event. She is taking over the role from Jo Dyer for three years, directing the event until 2025. She has selected writers with the intention of exploring the meaning of truth, including JM Coetzee, playwright David Hare, and filmmaker Terence Davies. Board memberships and other roles Adler has also served on several boards, including as a member of the Monash University council, director on the Melbourne International Arts Festival board and director on the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art board. She also spent time as a member of the boards of Monash University Museum of Art, the Melbourne International Arts Festival and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. She was chairperson of the board of her old school, Methodist Ladies' College, in 2012, when the then principal, Rosa Storelli, was sacked in 2012 over a dispute about her past salary sacrifice arrangements, with an audit suggesting that she had been overpaid more than over ten years. Her sacking caused anger among many parents, with a public meeting calling for the resignation of the board and the reinstatement of Storelli, and the event was covered widely on Australian media. Adler's last year on the board was 2015. From 2010 to 2013, she served as deputy chair of the Book Industry Strategy Group and the Book Industry Collaborative Council. In 2015, she was president of the Australian Publishers Association and chaired the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for fiction and poetry. Adler is a Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow at Monash University, a leadership role which includes the title of professor, a role that she will continue to fulfil, along with leading the publication of the series of essays published by the university entitled In the National Interest. Recognition and honours In 2008 Adler was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours for "service to literature as a publisher, through support for and the promotion of emerging authors, to tertiary education, and to the community". In