Sheridan Burke was the foundation president of the ICOMOS international Scientific Committee on Twentieth Century Heritage and is currently its Secretary General. She is a Sydney based heritage consultant trained in planning and architecture with 40 years experience working across Australia and internationally in NGO, government and commercial roles.

Sheridan is a member of the Sydney Opera House Conservation Council and its Eminent Architects Panel (now the Design Advisory Panel). She is an expert member of several State Planning Panels and former deputy chair of the NSW Heritage Council and chair of the State Heritage Register Committee. She is currently chair of the Eryldene Trust.

Sheridan has undertaken World Heritage missions for UNESCO and served on the ICOMOS international Board and is currently Vice President of the Advisory Committee. She was Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra and an adviser and lecturer for the Getty Conservation Institute’s Conservation of Modern Architecture Initiative since 2011.