Dr Ludwig is a Kungarakan and Gurindji woman from Darwin, with considerable executive leadership experience in the tertiary education sector, as well as on community committees and boards of management. She is a current active member of the Kungarakan Cultural and Education Association and has been a Board Director for the Darwin Entertainment Centre since 2016 and is on the Board of the Museum and Art Gallery of the NT (MAGNT) which she joined in May 2021. She became a member of the Literacy for Life Foundation Board in 2018.
Dr Ludwig’s previous roles include Deputy CEO - Vocational Education and Training at Batchelor Institute; Director of Operations in the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership at Charles Darwin University (CDU); Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor at CDU from August 2016-July 2017; Head of Faculty - Faculty for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies - Tropical Nth Qld Institute of TAFE; and many years of teaching in the Adult Education and Training sector.
In 2017 Wendy was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by WINU (World Indigenous Nations University - Canada) in recognition of her lifelong work as an educator and knowledge holder, which formed part of the recommendation from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (NATSIHEC).