Dr Donna-Lee Frieze has been recently been appointed by the Australian Government to the Academia Working Group of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

Donna is a member of the Contemporary Histories Research Group and is a current member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; and a Board member for the Institute for the Study of Genocide, New York University. Donna is also a Visiting Scholar of the Centre for Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University and a genocide scholar in residence at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne.