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Chancellor

Professor the Honourable Gareth Evans AC QC

BA LLB (Hons) (Melb), MA (Oxon), Hon LLD (Melb, Carleton, Syd), FASSA

Term of appointment

1 January 2010 to 31 December 2015

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Council (Chair), Honorary Degrees Committee (Chair), Emergency Appointment (Vice-Chancellor) Committee, The Australian National University Endowment for Excellence Board of Governors, Committee on Conditions of Appointment of the Vice-Chancellor, Nominations Committee of Council (Chair).

Background

Gareth Evans is a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University; President Emeritus of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, of which he was President from 2000-2009; Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament; a former Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Governments from 1983-96 (Attorney-General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications, and Foreign Minister); and former Leader of the Government in the Senate, and Deputy Opposition Leader.He has chaired or been a member of many other international panels, commissions and advisory boards, has written or edited nine books (including Australia's Foreign Relations, Cooperating for Peace and The Responsibility to Protect), and won a number of international awards, including the 2010 Roosevelt Institute award for Freedom from Fear.

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Professor Gareth Evans

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Vice-Chancellor

Professor Ian Robert Young AO

BE (Hons), MEngSc, PhD (JCU), FIEAust, FTSE

Term of Appointment

1 March 2011 to 29 February 2016

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Honorary Degrees Committee, Finance Committee, The Australian National University Endowment for Excellence Board of Governors, Nominations Committee of Council.

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Professor Ian Young

Contact details

Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200

T +61 2 6125 2510
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E vc@anu.edu.au

Seven members appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Nominations Committee of Council

Pro-Chancellor

Ms Ilana Atlas

BJuris; LLB (Hons) (WAust), LLM (Syd)

Term of Appointment

21 June 2012 to 30 June 2016

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Finance Committee, Audit & Risk Management Committee, Honorary Degrees Committee, Emergency Appointment (Vice-Chancellor) Committee, The Australian National University Endowment for Excellence Board of Governors, Committee on Conditions of Appointment of the Vice-Chancellor, Nominations Committee of Council

Background

Ms Atlas has extensive experience in business and has held executive and non-executive roles across a number of industry sectors. Ms Atlas is on the Board of Directors of Suncorp Group Limited and Coca-Cola Amatil Pty Limited and is the Chair of the Bell Shakespeare Company. Between 2000 and 2010, Ms Atlas held senior executive roles within Westpac Banking Corporation, including responsibility for human resources, corporate affairs and sustainability. She was a practising lawyer for 22 years and is a former partner of Mallesons Stephen Jaques.

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Ilana Atlas

Contact details

Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200

T +61 2 6125 2113
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E head.governance@anu.edu.au

 

Dr Doug McTaggart

BEc (Hons) (ANU), MA PhD (Chicago), Hon DUniv (QUT), FAICD, FAIM

Term of Appointment

21 June 2012 to 30 June 2016

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Finance Committee

Background

Doug McTaggart recently retired after 14 years as the Chief Executive of QIC, a leading institutional investment manager. Before joining QIC Dr McTaggart held various positions as an academic economist, finishing as Professor of Economics and Associate Dean at Bond University, followed by an appointment as Under Treasurer and Under Secretary of the Queensland Department of Treasury. He is currently a Councillor on the National Competition Council and a member of the COAG Reform Council. He also served on the Electricity Competition Committee and on Queensland Health Reform Advisory Committee for the Queensland Government. Doug has recently been appointed as a member of the Queensland Government Commission of Audit and as the Chair of the Public Service Commission. He is also a member of the Suncorp Board and Audit Committee. He is a past President of the Economic Society, Australia, has been a member of the Australian Accounting Standards Board, a Council Member of the Queensland University of Technology and was a Director (and past Chair) of the Investment & Financial Services Association (IFSA, now the Financial Services Council), and a Director of CEDA. As well as Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago, Doug holds a 1st Class Honours Degree in Economics from the Australian National University.

 
DougMcTaggart

Contact details

Governance Office
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Dr Vince FitzGerald

BEc (Qld and Harv) PhD (Harv), FIPAA, FAICD

Term of Appointment

21 June 2012 to 30 June 2014

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Honorary Degrees Committee

Background

Vince FitzGerald is a director (until recently chairman) of the Allen Consulting Group, a leading consultancy in public policy and economics. Previously he was a senior Commonwealth official in the departments of Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Finance, Trade (Secretary) and Employment, Education and Training (Secretary). He is a director of ETF Securities Ltd and subsidiaries, including ASX-listed ETFS Metal Securities Ltd, a Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Finkel Foundation and a Victorian State Councillor of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is also a member of the Kaiela (Goulburn-Murray region indigenous community) Planning Council.

Dr Vince FitzGerald

Contact details

Governance Office
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The Australian National University ACT 0200

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Ms Robin Hughes AO

BA MA (Syd)

Term of Appointment

1 July 2010 to 30 June 2014

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Honorary Degrees Committee

Background

Robin Hughes is an independent film-maker, currently managing director of Chequerboard Productions. She has worked as a producer, writer and director in the film and broadcasting industry, for the BBC, the ABC, commercial television and freelance. Her work has been characterised by innovation and has won many awards. As CEO of Film Australia during the nineteen eighties, she undertook a major successful restructuring of that organisation. She has served as Chair of the Council of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, a director of the Bangarra Dance Company and currently as Chair of Performing Lines.

Robin Hughes

Contact details

Governance Office
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The Australian National University ACT 0200

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Ms Martine Letts

BA (Hons)(ANU)

Term of Appointment

1 July 2010 to 30 June 2014

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Honorary Degrees Committee

Background

Ms Martine Letts is Deputy Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. She was previously the Secretary General (CEO) of Australian Red Cross. This followed a 17-year career with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Ms Letts served as Australian Ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay and as Deputy Head of Mission and Australian Deputy Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. She specialised in arms control and disarmament on postings in Geneva, Vienna and as a policy officer in DFAT. Ms Letts is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.

Martine Letts

Contact details

Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200

T +61 2 6125 2113
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Mr David Miles AM

LLB (Melb)

Term of Appointment

1 July 2010 to 30 June 2014

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Finance Committee

Background

David Miles is a practising lawyer, company director and executive coach. He is a former President of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Law Council of Australia. From 1991 to 1997, he was Chief Executive and national Managing Partner of national law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth. Mr Miles is Chair of Innovation Australia, a member of the Prime Minister's Science Engineering & Innovation Council (PMSEIC), and is Chair of Uniseed Management Pty Limited. He is also Chair of Legal Super Pty Ltd, Chair of the Australian Motor Sports Appeal Court, Chair of the National Stakeholder Steering Committee for the National Smart Electricity Meter Project and a Director of ASC Pty Ltd.

 
David Miles

Contact details

Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200

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Mr Graeme Samuel AC

LLB (Melb), LLM (Monash), FAICD

Term of Appointment

1 August 2011 to 31 July 2015

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Finance Committee (Chair), Audit & Risk Management Committee

Background

Graeme Samuel is a Managing Director of Greenhill Caliburn Pty Ltd, a leading independent investment bank and subsidiary of Greenhill & Co., Inc. He was Chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and an Associate Member of the Australian Communications & Media Authority until 31 July 2011. Graeme Samuel took up the position of Chairman of the ACCC in July 2003. Prior to that, he was President of the National Competition Council, Chairman of the Melbourne & Olympic Parks Trust, a Commissioner of the Australian Football League, a member of the Board of the Docklands Authority, and a Director of Thakral Holdings Limited. He relinquished all these offices to assume his position with the ACCC. Mr Samuel is a past President of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a past Chairman of Playbox Theatre Company and Opera Australia, a former Trustee of the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust and former Chairman of the Inner & Eastern Health Care Network. Until the early 1990s he pursued a professional career in law and investment banking, from which he retired to assume a number of roles in public service and company directorships.

Graeme Samuel

Contact details

Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200

T +61 2 6125 2113
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One person who is either a Dean or the Head of a Research School and is elected, in either case, by the Deans and the Heads of the Research Schools voting together

Professor Andrew MacIntyre

BA(Hons) (ANU), MA (ANU), PhD (ANU), FASSA 

Term of Appointment

30 September 2012 to 29 September 2014

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Academic Board

Background

Andrew MacIntyre is Dean of the Australian National University (ANU) College of Asia and the Pacific and Director of the Research School of Asia & the Pacific. He was previously Director of the ANU Crawford School of Economics and Government and now chairs the Crawford School Advisory Council. Professor MacIntyre was the founder of the Australia-Indonesia Governance Research Partnership, is an active member of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue and sits on the advisory board of the Australian American Education Leadership Foundation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Asia Foundation - Australia, Honorary ACT President of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), a member of the Advisory Board of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, and a member of the Board of the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies. He is also a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He is the recipient of the Japanese Foreign Minister's Commendation for contributions to the promotion of relations between Japan and Australia (2006) and the Presidential Friends of Indonesia award (2010). He has served as a consultant to government institutions and companies in Australia, the United States and China as well as international agencies such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the ASEAN Secretariat.

  
AndrewMacIntyre

Contact details

Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200

T +61 2 6125 2221
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One member of the academic staff of The Faculties elected by the members of that staff

Professor John Close

Term of Appointment

30 September 2012 to 29 September 2014

Background

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Contact details

Governance Office
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One member of the academic staff of the Institute of Advanced Studies elected by the members of that staff

Professor Tim Senden

Term of Appointment

30 September 2012 to 29 September 2014

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Academic Board

Background

 
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Contact details

Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200

T +61 2 6125 2113
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One member of the general staff of the University elected by members of that staff

Mr Matthew King

Term of Appointment

26 May 2012 to 25 May 2014

Background

Matthew is a Technical Officer in the Research School of Biology, specialising in the design, construction and maintenance of electrical and refrigeration research equipment primarily used in Plant Science. He held a similar position at the University of Western Australia for nine years. Matthew comes from a distinguished family of Academics, including tutors, lecturers, professors and two Vice Chancellors, with a long scholarly history in Universities in Victoria and Western Australia. He brings to Council insights stemming from a good understanding of the needs of and the contributions made by a very broad cross section of the University community.

Matthew King

Contact details

Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200

T +61 2 6125 2113
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One undergraduate student of the University elected by the undergraduate students of the University

Ms Aleksandra Sladojevic

Term of Appointment

1 December 2012 to 30 November 2013

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Honorary Degrees Committee, Academic Board

Background

Aleks Sladojevic is the President of the ANU Students Association. Born in Sydney, her family moved to Adelaide in 1997 where she completed her schooling at Walford Anglican School for Girls. In 2009, Aleks was awarded Adelaide City Council's Young Citizen of the Year. The same year, Aleks moved to the ANU to study a Bachelor of Economics/Laws. Throughout her studies, she has maintained continual involvement in extra-curricular groups on campus, including UN Youth, the ANU Students Association Disputes Committee, and the International Law Society. She has also volunteered for the ACT Migrant and Refugee Settlement Services, tutoring high school students who have recently migrated to Australia. Following her undergraduate studies, Aleks plans to complete a Masters in Public Policy or International Relations.

AleksSladojevic

Contact details

Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200

T +61 2 6125 2444
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E sa.president@anu.edu.au

One postgraduate student of the University elected by the postgraduate students of the University

Ms Julie Melrose

BIntStud (USyd) 

Term of Appointment

25 May 2012 to 16 May 2013

Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council

Academic Board

Background

Julie Melrose is the President of the Postgraduate and Research Students' Association (PARSA) and a final year Juris Doctor student at the ANU College of Law. She completed a Bachelor of International Studies (Government and International Relations) from the University of Sydney in 2008. Julie is a passionate environment and human rights campaigner and has been working in the NGO sector in various roles for the last 6 years. She is currently Assistant Director at the Conservation Council ACT and the Greens candidate for the seat of Canberra in the upcoming federal election 2013. She has previously worked in project and campaign management roles for UN Women, WWF, The Carter Center, Migrant and Refugee Settlement Services and the Climate Action Network International. Having particular interest in international environmental law, Julie has taken part in several UN environment conferences, and in 2012 was the Director of the ANU Rio+20 Project that saw a large group of ANU students take part in the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil. Julie's next goal is to work on the Sustainable Development Goals that are set to replace the Millennium Development Goals in 2015.

 

 
Julie Melrose

Contact details

Governance Office
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