B Comm, FCPA, FCA, FAICD

Miss Alexander is Chairman of CSL Limited, Director of Medibank Private and Dexus Property Group and Chair of their Audit Committees. She is a member of the Takeover Panel and Chair of the Board of Advice to the Salvation Army (Southern Command), a member of the Council of Melbourne University and Chair of the Finance Committee. She is also a Director of Australian International Health. She was a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1977 to 2002, a former National President of CPA Australia, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Deputy Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council.

B.Sc, MB.BS., FRCP(Edin.), FRACP

Dr Appleton is a Senior Visiting Neurologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane. He was a member of the Specialist Reserve RAAF from 1979 to 2001 with the rank of Group Captain and was Senior Reserve Medical Officer for Queensland from 1990 to 2001. He is currently a Senior Examiner for the Australian Medical Council and was formerly a member of the Examinations Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has been a member of the Council of the Australian Association of Neurologists and a Board member and Treasurer of the Board of the International Child Neurology Association. He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1971.

Hon. Dip FM, Hon. B. Bus (Ag Mgt)

Mr Beggs is the managing partner of a rural enterprise in Beaufort in western Victoria. He has been involved with the agricultural industry for 52 years and is a past President of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria and the Australian Superfine Wool Growers Association. He is a council member and immediate past Chairman of the Marcus Oldham College Council/Board and was awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship in 1969. In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary Medal for services to agricultural education.

LL.B, LL.M (Adel)

Ms Blokland was admitted to legal practice in 1981 and worked as a lawyer and legal academic for twenty years. She worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service in the top end of the Northern Territory and the Australian Legal Aid Office. She has taught criminal law, evidence and public international law and she was Senior Lecturer and the Dean of the Northern Territory University Law Faculty (now Charles Darwin University). She was also General Counsel to the Director of Public Prosecutions and practised as a barrister at James Muirhead Chambers. She was appointed Magistrate in the Northern Territory in 2002 and Chief Magistrate in 2006. She has served on numerous community, education and professional boards.

BA, Dip Soc Work (UWA), Grad Cert Com Law (Curtin)

Ms Brazier is a social worker with extensive experience in child, family and community services, disability services and consumer protection. From 2001 to 2006 she was the Director General of the Department for Community Development in WA. She has her own consultancy, is an adjunct professor at Curtin University (WA), and is Chairperson of the Sister Kate’s Children’s 1934-1953 Foundation, Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Management of Parkerville Children and Youth Care and a member of the Board of Governors of Fairbridge WA.

LL.B, MPA

Ms Cain has over 20 years of Australian and international media experience in a variety of journalist, corporate and political advisory roles. She has worked as a radio journalist in the NSW and Federal Press Galleries, as a ministerial media adviser in Australia, as Director of Communications and Media for a leading Australian corporate and in the US White House during the 1996 Presidential Elections. She is Executive Director of Australian Public Affairs and has particular expertise in litigation, transport and financial public relations. She is an International Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Public Affairs and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1996.

MBA, B Bus, FAHRI, GAICD, MACUI

Ms Cannon is currently the Chair of Credit Union SA, a Trustee with the South Australian Country Arts Trust, a Member of the Information Economy Advisory Board and Immediate Past President of the Australian Human Resources Institute SA. She is also a Director of Bizbuild Pty Ltd, her management consulting business.

Ms Cannon’s past positions include Director of Queensland Arts Council, Vice President of Adelaide College of TAFE, Council member of SA Division of Business Advisory Committee and SA Representative of Breast Cancer Network Australia. She has extensive business experience from her senior national roles as HR Director in international consumer products and FMCG companies and as a consultant with a top five chartered accounting firm.

B.Comm, FASSA

Senior Treasury Representative, Australian High Commission to the United Kingdom, 1970-72;
Under Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, 1977-79;
Secretary, Australian Department of Finance, 1979-86;
Head, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1986-94;
Commissioner, Australian Electoral Commission, 1986-95;
Executive Director, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1995-98;
Vice President, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1998-2001;
Member, Sir Roland Wilson Foundation, ANU Endowment for Excellence, 1998-present;
Member, Advisory Board to the Bureau of Meteorology, 2002-05;
Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, 2001-present.

Dip F.M.

Mr Dickinson has 25 years experience in the finance industry culminating as Chairman and CEO of UBS Warburg for Australia and New Zealand. He was previously Chairman and CEO of Warburg Australia and was awarded a Centenary Medal for services to the business community.

Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors.

Mr Fennell is a Principal of the firm Christopher R. Fennell Chartered Accountant and was formerly a principal of Pitcher Partners Chartered Accountants and now consults to that firm. He practices in corporate transactions, consults to small to medium sized clients in various industries and maintains a number of directorships in industry and investment.

FCPA, FAICD, SF Fin

Mr Guthrey has extensive work and board experience in a wide range of organisations in the private, Government and not for profit sectors both within Australia and overseas. He is currently a Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of Co-operative Bulk Handling Limited and its subsidiaries.

B.Ec., LL.B (Hons), M.Ec.

Attorney, Allen Allen & Hemsley, 1981-85;
Samuel Montagu (now HSBC) London, 1986-88;
ING Group, 1988-2002;
Chairman, National Committee for the UN Year of Microcredit, 2005;
Vice President-Acquisitions and Investments, Opportunity International 2002-present.

BA(ANU)

Commonwealth Public Servant, 1953-90;
Private Secretary (Chief of Staff) to the Minister for the Interior and the Minister for Works, 1958-63;
Secretary to the Federal Executive Council, 1971-73;
Head of the Government Branch, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 1971-73;
Official Secretary (Chief of Staff) to five Governors-General, 1973-90;
Inaugural Secretary of the Order of Australia, 1975-90;
Visiting Fellow, Division of Politics and Economics, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU 1991-92;
Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, ANU, 1998-99; Visiting Scholar, College of Law, ANU, 2000-07.

MBBS, LL.B, FRCS, FRACS, FACLM, FAICD

Director and Chairman, Medical Indemnity Protection Society Ltd;
Director and Deputy Chairman, MIPS Insurance Pty Ltd;
President, Medical Protection Society of Tasmania;
Director, Queensland Doctors’ Mutual Pty Ltd; Director, Professional Management Australia Pty Ltd;
Director, MIPS Holdings Pty Ltd;
Former Director Professional Insurance Australia Pty Ltd.

LL.B (Adel) 1966

Master of the Supreme Court of Queensland, 1990;
Judge of the Supreme Court since 1992;
Deputy President of the Defence Force Discipline Appeals Tribunal since 2008;
Commander RANR since 2003;
Member of the Senate of the University of Queensland since 1993;
Deputy Chancellor since 2006;
Awarded a Centenary Medal for services to law in 2003.

MBBS (Qld), MBA (Harvard), FAICD

Chairman, IBMcom Ltd;
Director of CathRx Ltd, UQ Holdings ltd, Universal Biosensors Inc, Union College, Churchie Foundation Ltd;
Member, AICD Director Advisory Service, University of Queensland Senate.