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David GONSKI AC (Chairman) BCom, LLB (UNSW), FAICD (Life), FCPA
David Gonski is the Chancellor of UNSW Australia (University of New South
Wales). He is also Chairman of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group,
Coca-Cola Amatil Limited and the Sydney Theatre Company.
David is also a member of Advisory Committee for Optus Ltd in Australia, the
ASIC External Advisory Panel and the board of the Lowy Institute for
International Policy. He is a patron of the Australian Indigenous Education
Foundation.
Richard ALCOCK BCom, LLB (UNSW)
Richard Alcock is Managing Director of Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch.
Prior to joining Merrill Lynch Richard was a Senior Corporate Partner of Allens
Arthur Robinson and held various offices including Head of Governance and
Chairman of the firm’s Ethics Committee.
Richard's other roles include Chairman of the Finance & Performance Committee
and Deputy Chairman of The Sydney Children's Hospital Network (Randwick and
Westmead), member of the Board of Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, member
of the Council of Knox Grammar School and Chairman of the Advisory Board of
the UNSW Law Faculty.
Richard was previously a member of the Australia Indonesia Institute, a member
of the Advisory Board of The Australian Government Solicitor, and a Director of
Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation.
Richard holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelor of Laws, both from
UNSW.
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Robert CAMERON AO BE (Hons), MBA, GradDip Geoscience, FAusIMM, FAIM, FAICD
Bob is the founder and Chairman (Non-Executive Director) of Centennial Coal
Company Limited and was its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer until
30 June 2011.
Bob’s other roles include Chairman of County Coal Limited, Pacific Smiles Group
and Hunter Valley Training Company Limited. He is a Trustee of the Museum of
Applied Arts and Sciences.
Bob is a member of the Deans Industrial Steering Committee for the UNSW
Faculty of Engineering and Chairman of the Minerals Industry Advisory Council
for the School of Mining Engineering at UNSW.
Mark DORNEY BCom LLB (UNSW) FFin, FAIM, FAICD
Mark is Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking in Australia for CLSA
and has had a distinguished corporate career as a CEO, company director and
banker.
Prior to joining CLSA, Mark was a Managing Director of Grant Samuel, where his
recent deals included advising CHAMP Private Equity on the $300m acquisitions
of oOh!media and EYECorp, advising APN News and Media on the acquisition of
Perth radio station 96FM, arranging ~$100m of capital for Property Exchange
Australia Limited (PEXA) and advising Ergon Energy on the sale of their ROAMES
geospatial imaging business.
Prior to joining Grant Samuel, Mark was an Executive Director of Macquarie
Group Limited where he was CEO of Southern Cross Austereo (‘SCA’, formerly
Macquarie Media Group) an ASX 200 listed media company comprising
subscription and free-to-air television, commercial radio and print media. At
Macquarie Media Group, Mark led the acquisitions and merger of RG Capital
Radio ($245m) and DMG Regional Radio ($186m) to create Australia’s largest
regional radio network, the on-market acquisition of Southern Cross
Broadcasting ($1.35bn), the sale of radio 2UE/3AW/4BC and Southern Star
($480m) to Fairfax Media and the sale of Taiwan Broadband Communications in
Greater China ($1bn). Mark also led the IPO of MMG and the subsequent
internalisation of management to form what became SCA.
Prior to Macquarie, Mark was Managing Director and Head of Equity Capital
Markets for Australasia at N.M. Rothschild & Sons where he was project leader
for the $14.3bn and $16bn privatisation of Telstra 1 and 2 respectively by the
Commonwealth Government of Australia, the $1.2bn privatisation of Contact
Energy by the NZ Government and the $1bn privatisation of TAB by the NSW
Government.
Mark is also currently Vice Chairman of the Australia Taiwan Business Council.
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Dr Robert EVERY AO BSc (Hons) (UNSW), PhD (UNSW), FTSE, FAICD, FIE Aust
Chairman of Wesfarmers since November 2008, director since 2006.
Bob was the Chairman of Steel and Tube Holdings Limited and Managing
Director and Chief Executive Officer of OneSteel Limited. Other executive
positions previously held include Chief Executive Officer of Steel and Tube
Holdings Limited, Managing Director of Tubemakers of Australia Limited and
President of BHP Steel.
Other directorships/offices include Chairman of Boral Limited (since May 2010),
and Director of Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research.
Dr Holly FORSYTH BA (UQ), PhD (UNSW)
Dr Holly Kerr Forsyth has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland,
graduated from the Ryde College of Horticulture, Sydney, and has a PhD in
History from the University of New South Wales. As well as writing for a range of
mainstream and academic publications, her writing on gardens, landscape,
environment and social geography can be found each Saturday in The Weekend
Australian. Holly’s doctoral thesis – titled 'From the British Pastoral to the
Australian Arcadia: Women, Transferred Vision and the Reconstruction of
Landscape' - addresses the ways in which colonial and post colonial women in
European-settled Australia reconstructed the landscape they found into their
vision of an English Arcadia. Holly instigated the annual Ian J Bickerton
Postgraduate History Prize in honour of historian, Associate Professor Ian
Bickerton.
The author of eleven books on gardens and gardening, Holly is in demand for
speaking engagements around Australia, and overseas, presenting illustrated
lectures on her books and on garden history. She is also in demand as an after
dinner speaker and as a presenter. Prior to her writing she had founded and run
her own PR agency for some 20 years.
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Dr Daniel GAUCHAT BCom (UNSW), MBA (INSEAD), AICD
Daniel Gauchat is a Founding Partner of The Adelante Group, which provides
CEO and Senior Executive Mentoring Services.
Until the end of 2006 he was a Senior Client Partner and Head of Global
Consumer/Life Sciences Markets, Australasia in the Sydney office of Korn/Ferry
International. Mr Gauchat joined the firm in 1999, previously having been an
Equity Partner with another major search firm AMROP International. In 1995, Mr
Gauchat became Vice-Chairman of the company’s international Board and
Executive Committee and in 1997, was appointed Chairman for a two-year
period.
Prior to his career in the executive search industry, Mr Gauchat held a number of
senior management positions for Société Generale de Surveillance (SGS),
including Senior Vice President and Director of the SGS Group in Switzerland,
Chief Executive Officer of SGS Spain, SGS Thailand and SGS Indonesia, as well as
General Manager of SGS in Japan. Before joining SGS, Mr Gauchat worked for
Grace Industrial Chemicals in Europe and as Operations Manager for the Coca-
Cola Export Corporation in Australia.
Mr Gauchat has an MBA from INSEAD and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Merit)
from UNSW, and has an AICD Diploma (Merit). He has been awarded a Doctor
(hc) of the University of New South Wales for services to the community and
UNSW.
Mr Gauchat was the President of the Australasian Advisory Council of INSEAD for
10 years and is a company member of Winifred West Schools. He was the
founding Chairman of the UNSW Medicine Advisory Council and is a member of
the Dean's Circle. He is also a member of the UNSW Risk Committee.
Dr Catherine HARRIS AO PSM BCom (UNSW), FAICD
Chairperson, Harris Farm Markets Pty Ltd.
Ms Harris has had an extensive career in both the public and private sectors. As
well as her commercial activities she has contributed to a number of boards.
She is a recipient of the Public Service Medal, the Centenary Medal and an
Officer of the Order of Australia. Ms Harris is a Director of the Australia Rugby
League Commission, a Director of The Australian Ballet and a Director of the
National Gallery of Australia and was Deputy Chancellor of UNSW from 2000 -
2004.
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Rod HOUNG-LEE BCom/LLB (UNSW)
Rod Houng-Lee began his thirty two year career with the Big 4 accounting firm,
PwC, in Sydney. Rod was seconded by PwC to Hong Kong where he was
admitted to partnership and was based until his recent return to Australia after
some twenty six years.
Rod performed a number of roles for PwC as a partner, including that of a client
service tax partner for some of the world's largest multinational companies, as
well as management roles as the Hong Kong and China firm's Head of Tax and a
member of that firm's Management Board, as the Head of Tax for PwC in Asia
Pacific, and as a member of the firm's Global Tax Executive Team. He withdrew
from the PwC Hong Kong and China firm partnership in 2010.
Rod is currently an Independent Non Executive Director for a group based in
Europe and Asia.
Professor Ian JACOBS BA, MA, MBBS, MD, FRCOG
Professor Ian Jacobs is President and Vice-Chancellor of UNSW Australia (the
University of New South Wales), a position he has held since February 2015.
Professor Jacobs came to Australia from the UK, where he had a distinguished
career as a leading researcher in the area of women’s health and cancer and in
university leadership. Immediately prior to joining UNSW he was Vice President
and Dean at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester
Academic Health Science Centre, a partnership linking the University with six
healthcare organisations involving over 36,000 staff. He was previously at
University College London, where he created and led the Institute for Women’s
Health, was Research Director of UCL Partners and Dean of the Faculty of
Biomedical Sciences.
Professor Jacobs qualified at Cambridge University and the Middlesex Hospital,
obtained accreditation in obstetrics and gynaecology working at the Royal
London Hospital and Rosie Maternity Hospital Cambridge and specialist
accreditation as a surgical gynaecological oncologist at Bart’s and The Royal
Marsden Hospitals. He was Head of Department of Gynaecological Oncology and
then Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen Mary University of London from 1996
to 2004 and created and directed the UCL Institute for Women’s Health between
2004 and 2009. He set up and directed the UCL Biomedical Research Centre
(2006-2009) and secured NIHR funding for the Centre.
Professor Jacobs is the Principal Investigator for the Cancer Research UK and Eve
Appeal funded PROMISE (Prediction of Risk of Ovarian Malignancy Screening and
Early Detection) programme and on several large multicentre clinical trials
including the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening involving
202,000 participants in 13 collaborating UK centres and the UK Familial Ovarian
Cancer Screening Study. He has an H-Index of 64 and has published more than
200 scientific papers with over 15,000 citations including 8,000 in the last 5
years.
In 2005 Professor Jacobs established the Uganda Women’s Health Initiative,
which he still chairs and which conducts a series of projects in Uganda including
a cervical screening programme. He has been President of the British
Gynaecological Cancer Society (2001-2004) and of the European Society of
Gynaecological Oncology (2005-2007). He is Medical Advisor to the Eve Appeal
charity (also known as the Gynaecology Cancer Research Fund) which he
founded in 1985, a Patron of Safehands for Mothers, founder and non-Executive
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Director of Abcodia Ltd and patent holder of the ROCA (Risk of Ovarian Cancer
Algorithm).
Cassandra KELLY BEc (Hons) (Syd), FFin
A corporate leader and entrepreneur, Cassandra is a known strategist and
tactician. She has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and
Australia. In 2003, she co-founded Pottinger, a recipient of the ABA’s
"Recommended Employer" award for seven years in a row.
Cassandra’s track record in assisting organizations to embrace new
opportunities, challenge the status quo and seize business opportunities placed
her on the list of 100 Women of Influence in Australia by the Financial
Review/Westpac.
With extensive experience in financial services, retail, property, energy and
resources, technology/media/telecommunications, consumer and clean energy,
Cassandra is regularly called upon locally and internationally as a speaker.
A passionate advocate for helping women connect across industries, from public
and private sector, she co-founded the Glass Elevator. Investing in female talent
is a passion and a business imperative for Cassandra. In addition, she supports
initiatives that assist the disadvantaged, including the homeless.
She is a Director of Flight Centre Limited, Allpress International, the UNSW
Foundation and an Ambassador for One Million Women. She is also on the
Advisory board of the Resolution Project. Previous directorships include Starlight
Children's Foundation and Children's Cancer Institute Australia. She served as
Vice President of Women in Banking and Finance and a member of the Advisory
Board of the CEO Sleepout.
Cassandra is a graduate of the University of Sydney with a focus on Economics,
Finance and Commercial Law. Her honors year focused on the economics of
developing nations.
Grant KING BE (Civil) (UNSW), MMgt (UOW), FAICD
Grant King was appointed Managing Director Origin Energy and joined the Board
in February 2000. He has extensive experience in the Australian energy industry
including as Managing Director of Boral Energy from 1994 to February 2000.
Prior to joining Boral, Grant was General Manager AGL Gas Companies, where he
held a number of management positions over a 17-year period.
He is a Director of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration
Association Limited (APPEA), a Fellow of Australian Institute of Company
Directors and Chairman of the Business Council of Australia Infrastructure and
Sustainability Committee. He is former Director of Envestra Limited, former
Chairman of Energy Supply Association of Australia (esaa) and former Chairman
of Oil Company of Australia. Grant is also former Chairman of Contact Energy
Limited and former Director of Business Council of Australia.
Grant has a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of New South
Wales and a Master of Management from the University of Wollongong.
He completed the Advanced Management Program at Administrative Staff
College, Mt Eliza (now the University of Melbourne Business School) in 1988.
Grant is married to Jennifer and has two sons and one daughter.
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Dr Wal KING AO (Deputy Chair) BE, MengSc, Hon DSc (UNSW), Hon FIEAust, CPEng, FAICD, FAIM, FAIB, FTSE
Former Chief Executive Officer, Leighton Holdings Limited. Chairman, Sundance
Resources Ltd. Director, Coca-Cola Amatil Limited, Kimberley Foundation
Australia Limited and Senior Adviser, CITIC Pacific Limited. Council Member,
University of New South Wales (2006-2012).
Mr King has worked in the construction industry for over 40 years and was Chief
Executive Officer of Leighton Holdings Limited, a company with substantial
operations in Australia, Asia and the Middle East, from 1987 until his retirement
on 31 December 2010.
Christine Margaret McNAMEE LIDDY AO BA (UNSW), FAICD
Christine McNamee Liddy is a former Board Member and Past President of the
Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia(South Eastern Section) and a Former
National Vice-President of the RFDS. She is Board member of the Australasian
Gastro –Intestinal Trials Group (GI Cancer Institute) and is also on the Board of
the Gastro-Intestinal Cancer Institute of New Zealand. She is a Board Member of
the Dame Pattie Menzies Foundation. Christine was the Founder of All Purpose
Indoor Plant Hire, which she owned and ran for thirty seven years before selling
to a multinational in 2010. She remains a Partner in Australian Plantscapes. She
is also a Council Member of the Friends of the Sydney International Piano
Competition and an Advisory Board Member of the Mosman Art Gallery and
Cultural Centre and a former member of the Capital Campaign Committee of the
State Library of NSW. She is a member of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of
Australia Capital Campaign Committee. (Friends of the RFDS) She is a member of
the UNSW Arts and Social Science Advisory Council.
Christine’s former roles include, Board Member Frontline Defence Services for
the Australian Army and Air Force, Member of the UNSW Arts & Social Sciences
Advisory Council, Council Member of the Art Gallery Society of NSW (for twenty
two years including an eight year period as the Honorary Secretary), Council
Member of the Foundation for Classical Archaeology Sydney University, a
member of the Aircraft Replacement Committee (Royal Flying Doctor Service).
Christine is a former Chairman of St John’s College within the University of
Sydney.
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Dr Peter Edward MASON AM BCom (Hons), MBA (UNSW), Honorary Doctorate of Business (UNSW)
Peter Mason is a Senior Advisor to UBS Investment Bank; and a Non-Executive
Director of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel).
Peter is Chairman of the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR);
Chairman of the UBS Australia Foundation; a Trustee of the Sydney Opera House
Trust; and an Ambassador for the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.
Peter has over 40 years’ experience in investment banking. He was Chairman of
AMP Limited from 2005 to May 2014 (Director from 2003), and Chairman of
David Jones Limited from 2013-2104 (Director from 2007). Peter was Chairman
of JP Morgan in Australia from 2000 to 2005 and Executive Chairman of their
associate, Ord Minnett Group. Prior to that he was Chairman and Chief
Executive of Schroders Australia Limited and Group Managing Director of
Schroders’ investment banking businesses in the Asia Pacific region. Peter was a
member of the Council of the University of New South Wales for 13 years. For
12 years he was a Director of the Children’s Hospital in Sydney and Chairman of
the Children’s Hospital Fund for eight years. Peter was appointed a member of
the Order of Australia for his contribution to the Children’s Hospital.
Bruce MORGAN BCom (UNSW), FCA, FAICD
Bruce is Chairman of Sydney Water, a Director of Caltex Australia Ltd, Origin
Energy Ltd, the European Australian Business Council and Redkite.
Bruce's career was in professional services, having been a partner with the
leading global firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for over 25 years. Bruce
served as Chairman of the Australian PwC Board and as a member on the PwC
International Board.
He previously held roles as Managing Partner of the PwC's Sydney and Brisbane
offices. Bruce practised as an audit partner focused on the financial services,
energy and mining sectors. He retired as a partner of PwC in October 2012.
Bruce holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) from UNSW. A
Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and of the AICD.
Warwick NEGUS BBus (UTS), MComm (UNSW), SFFin
Warwick is a Director of ASX listed Washington H Soul Pattinson and Co, a
Director of Terrace Tower Group and a Director of the Financial Services Institute
of Australasia. He is a member of the Council of Cranbrook School and a
member of the Sydney Advisory Board of the Salvation Army.
He spent more than 25 years in the Finance Industry both in Australia and
around the world in leadership roles with Bankers Trust Australia, Goldman
Sachs and more recently Colonial First State Global Asset Management.
Warwick is a member of the Council of UNSW where he is also Presiding
Member of its Finance Committee. He is also a member of the Advisory Council
of both the UNSW Business School and the Centre for Social Impact.
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Tim OLSEN BEd (UNSW)
Tim Olsen is one of Australia’s most recognised and respected art identities and successful gallery owners. Son of Australia’s national living treasure, artist Dr John Olsen, A.O. O.B.E., Olsen was born into a life of modern and contemporary art, and through fortitude and adversity has forged his own path, successful career and has become a highly recognised Australian over the past three decades.
Tim Olsen has also worked in and managed many leading Art Galleries including Rex Irwin Art Gallery, Woollahra; Australian Galleries, Collingwood and Paddington; and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Paddington. He established his own Gallery in 1993, which has rapidly expanded to become one of Sydney’s leading galleries today for over twenty years, whilst marking his contribution and commitment to the Australian art scene. He not only has supported the careers of many of Australia’s leading established artists but also has nurtured the creative lives of many emerging artists who can presently include themselves as being very much part of the eminent art establishment today.
Representing over 40 artists, Olsen has established himself as a leader in Contemporary Art, with a client base extending throughout Australia and the world. He has been a foundation member of the AGNSW for over 15 years and is dedicated to its restoration department and also a major donor and benefactor to the MCA. Tim Olsen has been a patron of the King’s School Art Prize for over twelve years and for over ten years sponsored the annual Tim Olsen Drawing Prize at COFA. He was also recently invited onto the board of the National Art School in East Sydney. Tim has been strongly associated with many charities directly and is constantly donating the gallery itself for fundraising events that include the Royal Randwick Children’s Hospital, the St Vincent’s Hospital Curran Foundation through to Oxfam and the Australian Opera to name a few. As a creative business visionary he was recently invited to join EO (Entrepreneurs Organisation) a selected forum of leading entrepreneurs. He also listed under the Tourism Australia 'friends of Australia' campaign and was invited to be its ambassador to the arts.
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Simon POIDEVIN OAM BSc (Hons) (UNSW)
Simon Poidevin is Managing Director – Corporate Stockbroking at Bell
Financial Group, a leading Australian full service broking and financial
advisory firm.
Prior to joining BFG, Simon was an executive director at Bizzell Capital
Partners, and before that he worked at Pengana Capital, an Australian based
Absolute Return funds management company, as an Executive Director.
Simon continues a close association with Pengana Capital through an ongoing
consulting role.
Simon has worked in Global Financial Markets for over 28 years, spending 14
years with Citigroup, culminating in heading the firm's Corporate Equity
Broking division in Australia.
In March 2011, Simon was appointed to the Board of Dart Energy, an
Australian S&P/ASX listed company and resigned from the Board in
November 2013
Simon represented Australia in Rugby Union from 1980 to 1991, captaining
the Wallabies in 1986 and 1987 and becoming the first Wallaby to play 50
test matches. In total he played 59 test matches including 21 against the New
Zealand All Blacks; a record for an Australian forward. In 1991 Simon was a
member of the first Wallaby team to win the Rugby World Cup.
Simon is currently the Co-President of the Classic Wallabies, the living
heritage of Australian Rugby and encompasses all players who have been
selected to play for the Wallabies.
Simon was awarded an OAM in 1988 and awarded the Centenary Medal in
2003. He was inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame in 1991 and into the
Australian Rugby Hall of Fame in 2014. Simon is also an emeritus member of
the Ben Lexcen Sports scholarship committee and co-founded the
establishment of the “Lexcen Scholarships” in 1988. The “Ben Lexcen Sports
Scholarships” program has supported over 190 UNSW Athletes since its
creation.
He holds a Blue in Rugby Union from the University of New South Wales, and
is a member of both the UNSW Sporting Hall of Fame and the UNSW Faculty
of Science Hall of Fame.
Professor Laura POOLE-WARREN BSc(Hons) UNSW, PhD UNSW, FBSE, FAIMBE
Laura Poole-Warren is the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research Training) & Dean of
Graduate Research at UNSW Australia. She is also a Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and leads a research group in the field of biomaterials and tissue
engineering.
Laura was a decade-long member (up to 2013) of the Australian
Commonwealth statutory Advisory Committee on Medical Devices. In this
role she advised the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration on safety
of medical devices. Laura also spent 2 years as a preclinical scientist in the
biomedical industry from 1999 to 2001 working on development of
implantable devices including wound dressings and embolic agents for cancer
treatment.
Laura is current Convenor of the Australian Council for Deans and Directors
of Graduate Research, is Vice-Chair of the International Federation of
Medical and Biological Engineering Women in BME Committee and is
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immediate past Chair of the Go8 Deans of Graduate Research. Her other
roles include being an Associate Editor of the journal Biomaterials and an
advisory board member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems
Science and the Bionic Vision Australia Consortium.
Laura holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) and a PhD degree from UNSW.
Julian REYNOLDS BCom (Hons) (UNSW), MBA (Stanford), MSAA
Joint Managing Director, Reynolds Equities Pty Limited.
Julian is a founder and Director of Reynolds Equities - a member firm of the
Morgans Stockbroking and Financial Planning Group. He has been actively
involved in the Australian securities industry for the past 48 years and
specialises in private client investment advice. During this time Julian has
served on the Boards of both Public Companies and Charitable organisations.
Julian has been a UNSW Business School Alumni Leader at UNSW since 2005.
He was previously a Governor on the UNSW Alumni Association Board 2000-
2010.
Jillian SEGAL AM BA LLB (UNSW), LLM (Harvard), FAICD
Jillian Segal was appointed Deputy Chancellor of UNSW Australia in January
2010. She has been a member of the University's Council, its governing body,
since 2006. She is a professional company director with a legal and regulatory
background. Currently, she is a director of ASX Limited and the National
Australia Bank. She is also Chairman of the General Sir John Monash
Foundation and on the board of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.
She is a Member of the Australian War Memorial Council and is Chairman of
the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce. Jillian was appointed a trustee of
the Sydney Opera House Trust on the 1st January 2014.
Jillian is a former member of the Remuneration Tribunal and the Sydney
Advisory Council of the Centre for Social Impact. Jillian was a Commissioner
and Deputy Chair at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
(ASIC) from 1997 to 2002. She was a member of the Dawson Committee
which reviewed the Trade Practices Act in 2002, was a member of the
Business Regulatory Advisory Group from 2005 to 2008. She has also served
on a number of other government and private sector boards, including being
Chair of the Banking & Financial Services Ombudsman Board, a member of
the Australia Council's Major Performing Arts Board and President of the
Administrative Review Council.
Prior to her time at ASIC, Jillian practised as a corporate and environmental
partner at Allen Allen & Hemsley (now Allens Linklaters) and also worked for
Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.
Jillian graduated BA. LL.B with the University Medal for law from UNSW and
has an LL.M from Harvard University. Jillian was awarded a Centenary Medal
in 2003 for services to society through business leadership, in 2005
appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to business law,
and received a UNSW Alumni Achievement Award.
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Dr Emery SEVERIN
BSc (Hons) (UNSW), D Phil (Oxford),
MAICD
Emery Severin is currently CEO and Executive Director Nuplex Industries an
NZX and ASX listed leading global manufacturer of polymer resins used in
paints, coatings and structural materials.
Emery has been in his current role since 2010 and has over 25 years’
experience in senior management roles in the steel, building and construction
and chemicals industries. During his career Emery has managed businesses
globally and has been located in Australia, SE Asia and the USA. In his early
career he was an Officer in the Australian Army and is a graduate of the Royal
Military College Duntroon. While completing his undergraduate studies at
Duntroon through UNSW, Emery was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship from
South Australia and went onto study physical chemistry at Oxford University.
Emery has a passion for science and innovation and has previously served as
Chairman of the CRC for Asthma Research and a member of the Science
Foundation for Physics at the University of Sydney.
Shane SIMPSON AM LLB (Hons) (Auckland), MJur (Auckland)
Shane Simpson is Special Counsel at Simpsons Solicitors. He is on the Council
of the Australian National Maritime Museum, Chairman of the Bundanon Trust
and the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers' House Trust, and a director of the
Australian National Academy of Music and the Luca and Anita Belgiorno-Nettis
Foundation. He chairs the UNSW Faculty of Art and Design Advisory Council.
He is the author of many books including ‘Visual Artists and the Law’, ‘Music
Business’, and ‘Collections Law: Legal Issues for Australian Archives, Galleries,
Libraries and Museums’.
Dr Colin SUTTON BSc (UNSW), PhD (UNSW), FAICD
Dr Sutton is an Adjunct Professor at the UNSW Graduate School of Biomedical
Engineering. He is a Non-Executive Director of UNSW Innovations Pty Ltd and
the UNSW Foundation. Last year he retired as a Director of the Australian
Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group, Heart Research Australia and as a Director of
the Bionic Vision Australia Consortium.
He is a former member of the Council of the National Health and Medical
Council. He was a member of the Grants Committee of Innovation Australia
within the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
Dr Sutton has had a long career in the international medical device industry.
Most recently he was Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of
Ventracor Limited, a position he held until his retirement in 2006.
Prior to that he was CEO of Sirtex Medical Limited, where he was responsible
for the commercialisation of a new liver cancer therapy. Dr Sutton was also
Chairman of Polartechnics Limited and has served on various other company
boards.
Dr Sutton holds a DEng and a PhD from the Faculty of Engineering, University
of New South Wales. He is a Life Member of the UNSW Sports Association and
is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Albert Yue-Ling WONG BCom (UNSW), FFin, MSDIA, FAICD
Originally from Hong Kong, Mr Wong has lived in Australia for 40 years and has
been involved in the stockbroking and investment banking industry for over 33
years. He was admitted as a Member of the Australian Stock Exchange in 1988
and was the principal of Intersuisse Limited until 1995 when he established
the Barton Capital group of companies, including eStar Online, both
companies were listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. He was the
business partner of former NSW Premier, The Hon. Neville Wran AC QC at
Wran Partners from 2004-2011. Until recently, Mr Wong was the Founder and
Chairman of Winmar Resources Limited and Deputy Chairman of Kimberley
Diamonds Limited.
Apart from being Deputy Chairman of Prima BioMed Limited, Mr Wong has
been widely involved in philanthropic activities including his directorship on
Ian Thorpe’s Fountain for Youth Foundation, Honorary Life Governor and
President of the Physics Foundation at The University of Sydney and the
Children’s Medical Research Institute. Mr Wong is a Fellow of the Financial
Services Institute of Australasia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of
Company Directors.
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