Now well established, the Chairman’s Panel was designed to build support for both the Foundation and the Great Barrier Reef with the Chief Executives and Chairs of large Australian companies.
While it provides a revenue stream for the Foundation, the experience, which the Chairman’s Panel offers each of its members - to visit the Reef, learn about its complexity, the threats it confronts and how Australian science is responding - has proven to be a great deal more than this. Sharing what we know about the Reef in a structured program of lectures and events is one way in which the Foundation can raise awareness of its fragility and build a network of advocates in Australian business for the preservation of our iconic coral reefs This is all the more important as the threat which climate change in particular presents to the Reef becomes more pressing.
Current Chairman’s Panel members are listed below:
• JOHN SCHUBERT AO, Chairman
• GAVIN BELL, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner, Freehills
• MICHAEL CAMERON, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, The GPT Group
• MEGAN CLARK, Chief Executive, CSIRO
• PETER CROWLEY, Managing Director, GWA Group Limited
• GEOFF DIXON, Chairman, Tourism Australia
• STEPHEN FITZGERALD, Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Partners Australia Pty Ltd
• KERRY GARDNER, Director, Great Barrier Reef Foundation
• PAUL GREENFIELD AO, Vice Chancellor, University of Queensland
• JOHN GRILL, Chief Executive Officer, WorleyParsons
• MATTHEW GROUNDS, Joint Head of Investment Banking Australasia, UBS AG
• CLAIRE HANRATTY, Managing Director, Great Barrier Reef Foundation
• SANDRA HARDING, Vice Chancellor and President, James Cook University
• TIM JACKSON, Managing Director ANZSEA, Booz & Co
• ALAN JOYCE, Chief Executive Officer, Qantas Airways Limited
• GRANT KING, Managing Director, Origin Energy Limited
• GRAEME LIEBELT, Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, Orica
• CHRIS LYNCH, Chief Executive Officer, Transurban Ltd
• SENG-HUANG LEE, Executive Chairman, Mulpha Australia Ltd
• KEN MACKENZIE, Managing Director & CEO, Amcor Limited
• IAN NAREV, Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• JAMES PACKER, Chairman, Consolidated Press Holdings
• MARCUS RANDOLPH, Group Executive & Chief Executive Ferrous and Coal, BHP Billiton
• DOUG RITCHIE, Chief Executive Officer, Rio Tinto Energy
• CHARLIE SARTAIN, Chief Executive Officer, Xstrata Copper
• STEVEN SARGENT, President & CEO, GE Australia and New Zealand
• MICHAEL SMITH OBE, Chief Executive Officer, ANZ Banking Group Limited
• DAVID THODEY, Chief Executive Officer, Telstra Corporation Limited
• KEITH TUFFLEY, Director, Great Barrier Reef Foundation
• DAVID TURNER, Chairman, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• GEOFF WILSON, Chief Executive Officer, KPMG
• PETER YOUNG AM, Chairman, Queensland Investment Corporation
• PAUL ZAHRA, Chief Executive Officer, David Jones Limited