John M Schubert AO

CHAIRMAN

Dr Schubert (BE, PhD, FIEAust, CPEng, FTS, FIChemE) was appointed Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation in 2004. Dr Schubert is a Director of BHPB Billiton Limited and Qantas Airways Limited. He is also Chairman of G2 Therapies Limited and is a Member of the Business Council of Australia.

Dr Schubert commenced his career with Esso Australia Ltd as a professional engineer and held various positions with Esso in Australia and overseas. In 1983 he was appointed to the Board of Esso Australia. In 1985, Dr Schubert became Esso's Deputy Managing Director and in 1988 he became Esso's Chairman and Managing Director.Dr Schubert was Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Pioneer International Limited from 1993 until 2000. From 2001 to 2003 he was the President of the Business Council of Australia. He was also previously Chairman of Worley Parsons Limited.

Paul Greenfield AO

CHAIRMAN, International Scientific Advisory Committee

Professor Paul Greenfield is Vice-Chancellor of The University of Queensland (effective from 1 January 2008). He was previously Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Chemical Engineering at The University of Queensland. Prior to 2001, Professor Greenfield was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Director of the Graduate School.  He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE), the Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK (FIChE) and an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust, CPEng).

Professor Greenfield is a Director on a number of Company and CRC Boards (UniQuest Pty Ltd, Symbiosis Ltd, IMBcom Pty Ltd).  He is currently Chair of the Scientific Advisory Group of the South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership.  Recently he was appointed Chair of the Expert Panel on Purified Recycled Water.   He is also Chair of the Riversymposium Strategic Planning Committee, the Thiess International Riverprize Committee and the International Water Centre.   He was awarded an Order of Australia (AO) in 2006.

Ian Buchanan

Mr Buchanan has 35 years experience throughout SE Asia and Australasia working as CEO, Independent Director and/or Strategic Advisor at the most senior levels of business and government on the restructuring, turnaround and performance improvement of major Government Linked and private corporate groups and agencies.  Mr Buchanan is a currently a Senior Executive Advisor at Booz & Co..  Prior to this he was Regional Vice President at the Stanford Research Institute.  He is on the Board or Advisory Council of World Islamic Economic Forum (‘Islamic Davos’) International Advisory Panel; Insurance Australia Group, Asian Advisor; Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA), Asian Advisor; CHAMP Private Equity, Asian Advisory Board; The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Director; The Distillery (Intelligence-centric computing), Director; Executive Centre for Global Leadership (Leadership Development, Indonesia) Trustee; Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (‘Think-tank’, Malaysia), International Advisor.  He has received the Oxford University Open Scholarship; Magdalen College Demyship; State Scholarship; Pfizer Corporation Scholarship; Jex Blake Prize; Turbutt Prize; and RAF Scholarship.

Michael Cameron

Mr Cameron is Chairman of the Foundation Audit Committee.  He joined The GPT Group as CEO and Managing Director in May 2009 and has over 30 years experience in Finance and Business. Mr Cameron joined The GPT Group as CEO and Managing Director in May 2009 and has over 30 years experience in Finance and Business.

His past experience includes 10 years with Lend Lease where he was Group Chief Accountant then Financial Controller for MLC Limited before moving to the US in 1994 in the role of Chief Financial Officer/Director of The Yarmouth Group, Lend Lease’s US property business. On returning to Sydney in 1996 Michael was appointed to the role of Chief Financial Officer, MLC Limited, then Chief Operating Officer of the NAB Wealth Management Division following the sale of MLC. Michael joined the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 2002 and was appointed to the role of Group Chief Financial Officer in early 2003. In 2006 Michael was appointed to the position of Group Executive of the Retail Bank Division of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, leading a team of 20,000 staff servicing eight million customers. Michael was Chief Financial Officer at St.George Bank Limited from mid 2007 until the sale to Westpac in December 2008.
Michael is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants, a fellow of CPA Australia and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Geoff Dixon

Geoff Dixon stepped down in 2008 after eight years as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Qantas Airways Limited. Mr Dixon is currently Chairman of Tourism Australia, the Garvan Medical Research Foundation and Queensland Major Events. He sits on the board of publicly listed companies Crown Limited, Consolidated Media Holdings Limited and Facilitate Digital Holdings Ltd, as well as the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.

Stephen Fitzgerald

Stephen is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Australia and Partners. Stephen joined Goldman Sachs in 1992, became a Managing Director in 1998 and Partner in 2002. He currently serves on the Goldman Sachs Australia Management Committee and the Goldman Sachs Asia Management Committee, having previously served on the Goldman Sachs European Management Committee and the Goldman Sachs Partnership Committee. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in Australia in 2008 Stephen was Head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management International (GSAM). In that capacity, he was responsible for GSAM’s businesses outside North America, encompassing Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. Previously, he was head of the Investment Management Division in Asia and previously spent eight years as Chief Investment Officer for GSAM’s global fixed income and currency business. Stephen earned a Bachelor of Economics from the University of New England, Australia in 1986. He lives in Sydney, having previously been based in London, Hong Kong and Tokyo with Goldman Sachs.

Kerry Gardner

With a background in consumer goods marketing, Ms Gardner is a company director of both arts and environmental organisations, as well as producing film and documentary in these areas. She sits as a judge for the Australian Business Arts Foundation Awards and The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award.  A Melbourne based board member of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, she also sits on the GBRF Chairman’s Panel.  Ms Gardner is an active member of the Myer Foundation in both the arts and environment grant-making areas, and participates in international environmental and philanthropic discussion.

Amanda McCluskey

Ms McCluskey is Head of Sustainability and Responsible Investment for Colonial First State Global Asset Management. She has worked extensively in the development and implementation of governance strategies, frameworks and reporting, including the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI). She is Deputy Chair of the Investor Group on Climate Change and a non-executive director of the Climate Change and Business Centre. Ms McCluskey holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) in International Relations and was one of the first Australians to participate in the Al Gore Climate Leadership Program.

John Mulcahy

Dr Mulcahy joined the Board of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation in May 2006. Dr Mulcahy is the former Chief Executive and Managing Director of Suncorp. He joined Suncorp following a distinguished career at the Commonwealth Bank and prior to that, at Lend Lease where he was CEO of Lend Lease’s Civil & Civic division.

Mr Mulcahy was also appointed to the Future Fund Board of Guardians by the Federal Government in March 2006 while also being appointed as a Director of GWA.

Russell Reichelt

Dr Russell Reichelt was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority on 1 November 2007.  Dr Reichelt is presently a board member of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, and the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, and a member of Queensland's Smart State Council. He has a PhD in marine science from the University of Queensland (1980), and has served as CEO of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Chairman of the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation and as a member of Australia’s State of the Environment Committee.  He has previously chaired the National Oceans Advisory Group, CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship Advisory Committee and Seafood Services Australia Ltd. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (UK) and a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors.

Phillip Strachan

Mr Strachan joined the Rio Tinto Group in 1981 and has held a number of positions within the Group at Hamersley Iron, Rio Tinto Indonesia, Rio Tinto Aluminium, and in head offices in London and Melbourne. He was CFO at Rio Tinto Aluminium for six years before being appointed to the position of CFO, Rio Tinto Alcan in 2007.  Mr Strachan holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Melbourne University and is a Fellow of the Certified Practicing Accountants.

Keith Tuffley

Mr Tuffley left Goldman Sachs in 2008. He joined the group in 2002 and assisted the firm in merging the Australian business with JB Were in 2003.  Mr Tuffley then became head of Investment Banking Division and a member of the Board of Directors and the Management Committee of Goldman Sachs JB Were.  In 2007 he was transferred to London to lead the Industrials Industry Group for the region.  Mr Tuffley is a Director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and Bush Heritage Australia and is a Governor of WWF-Australia.

David Turner

Mr Turner joined the Board of the Commonwealth Bank in August 2006 and was appointed Chairman in February 2010.   Mr Turner was appointed a Director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation on 27 August 2007.  He is also a Director of O’Connell Street Associates Pty Ltd.  From December 2007 until May 2010 he was Deputy Chairman, then Chairman of Cobham plc, a leading UK public company.  Mr Turner has been a Non Executive Director of Whitbread plc, Director of the Iron Trades Insurance Group and Member of the Quotations Committee of the London Stock Exchange. Mr Turner was CEO of Brambles Limited from October 2003 – June 2007, CFO from 2001 – 2003 and was previously Finance Director of GKN plc until the merger of its support services business with Brambles in 2001. He was formerly Finance Director of Booker Plc and spent six years with Mobil Oil Corporation.Mr Turner has wide experience in international business and in finance and corporate governance generally.

He is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.  

Peter Young

Until 30 June 2006, Peter was Chairman of Investment Banking, ABN AMRO Group (Australia and New Zealand), now known as Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).  Since that date, he has acted as Senior Advisor to the group and he is now a member of the Group’s Advisory Council.  He graduated in Science from the University of Queensland, with a major in Geology in 1967.  He spent the next few years with an oil company, exploring for petroleum in the North Sea between Norway and Scotland.  After discovering some commercial oil reserves, Peter returned to Australia to undertake an MBA at the University of New South Wales during which he carried out a socio economic study of a development that Lend Lease was undertaking on the outskirts of Sydney and subsequently joined Lend Lease as a project manager. 

In 1975, Peter moved to Citibank where he was responsible for project financing.  In 1984, he joined stockbrokers AC Goode, which was later acquired by the National Australia Bank.  Subsequently Peter, with two of his partners from AC Goode, established his own firm of Burdett, Buckeridge and Young Ltd.  In 1993 he was approached by the Dutch bank, ABN AMRO to establish an investment banking operation in Australia.

He is Chairman of QIC Limited, Chairman of Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund, Chairman of NSW Cultural Management Ltd and recently retired Chairman of the Australian Federal Government’s Export Finance & Insurance Corporation.  He is a Director of Fairfax Media, and Director of Great Barrier Reef Foundation.  He is Governor of the Taronga Foundation.

He is a recipient of the Centenary Medal and in 2008 was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to business and commerce, particularly in the areas of finance and investment, and to cultural and environmental organisations.