Council membership
Chancellor
Professor the Honourable Gareth Evans AO QC
BA LLB (Hons) (Melb), MA (Oxon), Hon LLD (Melb, Carleton, Syd)
Term of appointment
1 January 2010 to 31 December 2012
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.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2113
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E chancellor@anu.edu.au
Vice-Chancellor
Professor Ian Robert Young
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.
Contact details
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2510
F +61 2 6257 3292
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
6 June 2008 to 30 June 2012
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.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2113
F +61 2 6125 8524
E head.governance@anu.edu.au
Mr Michael Delaney
BA (LaTr)
Term of Appointment
6 June 2008 to 30 June 2012
Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council
Finance Committee (Chair)
Background
Mr Delaney has been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the MTAA Superannuation Fund (Secretariat Co) Pty Ltd since May 2010. He was formerly the Executive Director of the Motor Trades Association of Australia and of the Australian Automobile Dealers Association, positions he held from 1988. This followed an extensive career in the Australian Public Service and the Commonwealth Government. He has been a member of the ANU Council since September 1998 and has served on a range of University committees including the Executive Committee of Council and the Finance Committee. Mr Delaney has been the Chair of the Finance Committee since July 2006.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2113
F +61 2 6125 8524
E head.governance@anu.edu.au
Dr Vince FitzGerald
BEc (Qld and Harv) PhD (Harv), FIPAA, FAICD
Term of Appointment
6 June 2008 to 30 June 2012
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.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2113
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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.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2113
F +61 2 6125 8524
E head.governance@anu.edu.au
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.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2113
F +61 2 6125 8524
E head.governance@anu.edu.au
Mr David Miles AM
LLB (Melb)
Term of Appointment
1 July 2010 to 30 June 2014
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.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2113
F +61 2 6125 8524
E head.governance@anu.edu.au
Mr Graeme Samuel AC
LLB (Melb), LLM (Monash), FAICD
Term of Appointment
1 August 2011 to 31 July 2015
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.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
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E head.governance@anu.edu.au
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 Kiaran Kirk
BSc (Hons) PhD (Syd), MA DPhil (Oxon)
Term of Appointment
30 September 2010 to 29 September 2012
Background
Kiaran Kirk is the Director of the ANU Research School of Biology, having previously been Head of the School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Faculty of Science. Prior to that he held a number of research fellowships and College positions at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Board of Fellows of University House and is currently chair of the Board of Clonakilla, a family-owned winery.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2113
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E Kiaran.Kirk@anu.edu.au
One member of the academic staff of The Faculties elected by the members of that staff
Dr Royston Gustavson
BA Hons (Music) (Qld), MBA PhD (Melb), AFAIM, FAICD
Term of Appointment
30 September 2010 to 29 September 2012
Background
Royston Gustavson is Associate Dean (Education) of the ANU College of Business and Economics and a Bruce Hall Fellow. His teaching and research focus on business ethics, and the interrelationships between business, society, and the natural environment, but he has taught university courses ranging from music notation to corporate strategy, and published in areas ranging from business ethics in Africa, to the 16th century printing industry, to the Australian courts system. He received a 2008 ANU Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2113
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E Royston.Gustavson@anu.edu.au
One member of the academic staff of the Institute of Advanced Studies elected by the members of that staff
Professor Ann McGrath OAM
BA (Hons) (Qld), PhD (LaT), FASSA
Term of Appointment
30 September 2010 to 29 September 2012
Background
Ann McGrath is the Inaugural Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University and was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for service to education. Recently appointed to the Advisory Committee for the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage, she is currently running two large Australian Research Council funded projects, including a Linkage project with parks and national collections institutions. Committed to interdisciplinary research, public and community outreach, she worked on the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and served as an expert witness in a range of court cases and government enquiries pertaining to Indigenous history. Her books, articles and her film on Australian history have won various prizes and honours including the W.K. Hancock Prize, the John Barrett Prize and the Archibald Hanna Jnr Fellowship in American History at Yale University.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
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E Ann.McGrath@anu.edu.au
One member of the general staff of the University elected by members of that staff
Mr Matthew King
Term of Appointment
26 May 2010 to 25 May 2012
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.
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 2113
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E Matthew.King@anu.edu.au
One undergraduate student of the University elected by the undergraduate students of the University
Mr Dallas Proctor
Term of Appointment
15 March 2012 to 30 November 2012
Background
Dallas is the President of ANU Students' Association. After a year at the University of Sydney, he transferred to ANU to study a combined Bachelor of Commerce/Laws. He has lived on campus for two years, and has worked as a Senior Resident at Lena Karmel Lodge. Dallas is a founding Director of Canberra Student Housing Co-operative, and has held multiple leadership roles in extra-curricular groups on Campus, including as the 2011 representative to ANU Grants and Affiliations Committee. He is also a keen trombonist, having previously been a member of Canberra Youth Orchestra.
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
Mr Areti Metuamate
Term of Appointment
12 May 2011 to 12 May 2012
Membership of ANU Committee(s) reporting to Council
Honorary Degrees Committee
Background
Areti is the President of the Postgraduate and Research Students' Association and Deputy Head of Residence at Toad Hall. He is a Freyberg Scholar from New Zealand and currently studying towards a PhD in Pacific Studies. He holds a first class honours degree in politics from Victoria University of Wellington and has 5 years experience working for MPs and Ministers. He is a political commentator in New Zealand with a focus on Maori politics and is an active member of the United Nations Association, the National Maori Youth Council, the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs and the Maori Runanga Katorika. He was formerly the Vice President of the Ship for World Youth Association NZ. Alongside his commitments at ANU, Areti also acts as the Australian Coordinator for the Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND).
Contact details
Governance Office
Chancelry Building 10
The Australian National University ACT 0200
T +61 2 6125 4187
F +61 2 6125 5811
E president.parsa@anu.edu.au
