• Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of New South Wales, Australia
• Honourable Kristina Keneally MP, Premier of New South Wales, Australia
• Honourable Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales, Australia
• Honourable Eric Roozendaal, MLC, Treasurer of NSW, Special Minister of State, Minister for State and Regional Development, Minister for Ports and Waterways and Minister for the Illawarra.
• Stanley Hartt, Chairman, Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd
• Honourable John Manley, President and CEO, Canadian Council  of Chief Executives
• Peter Anderson, Chief Executive, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Claude Morin, Vice President, Global Sales, Air Canada
• Brian Kingston, Managing Director and CEO, Prime Infrastructure
• Gary Halverson, President, Australia-Pacific, Barrick Gold Corporation 
• Pat Fiore, President and CEO, Bauxite and Alumina, Rio Tinto Alcan
• Dr Malcolm Cook, Program Director (East Asia), Lowy Institute for International Policy
• Nicholas Moore, CEO Macquarie Group
• Brian Hansen, Managing Principal and Practice Coordinator of the Asia Pacific Group of Stikeman Elliott
• Nicholas Curtis, Executive Chairman, Lynas Corporation
• Bob Onyschuk, Senior Partner, Gowlings Lafleur Henderson LLB
• Larry Blain, Chair, Board of Directors, Partnerships British Columbia
• John O'Rourke, Principal, Plenary Group
• Peter Salisbury, Senior Advisor, Alberta Investment Management Corporation
• David Emerson, Former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
• Peter Gallagher, Trade & Public Policy Consultant
• John W.H. Denton, Partner & CEO of Corrs Chambers Westgarth
• Jeffrey Simpson, National Affairs Columnist,  The Globe and Mail
• Professor Ian O’Connor, Vice Chancellor and President of Griffith University
• Adele Beachley, Managing Director, Australia & New Zealand Research in Motion (RIM)
• Rodney Bloom, General Manager, Business Development and International, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
• Dr Robin Batterham, President Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• Dr Janice Stein, Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
• Paul Kelly, editor-at-large, The Australian
• Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor of The Australian
• David Murray, Chairman, Future Fund Board
• Mitchell Hooke, Chief Executive Officer, Minerals Council of Australia
• The H.E. Mr. Justin Brown, Australian High Commissioner to Canada

16-18 November 2010

Held at Government House and

Sheraton on the Park, Sydney Australia

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES 

Peter Anderson 
Peter Anderson is Chief Executive of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 
During his 26 years of professional employment, he has spent 19 years in the private sector and 7 years with government. He has professional expertise in public policy, employment law, industrial relations, federalism, constitutional law and administrative law. 
In 2002 he became Director of Workplace Policy at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He was appointed Chief Executive of ACCI in January 2008. 
Mr. Anderson holds statutory and ministerial appointments to a wide-range of national bodies. He is also the leading representative of Australian business organisations at an international chamber of commerce and employer level, including a member of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation. 
He holds an Honours Degree of Bachelor of Laws from the University of Adelaide and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice. 

Professor Robin J Batterham, AO, BE, PhD, LLD (Hon. Melb), DSc (Hon. UTS), FAA, FTSE, FREng, FNAE, FSATW, FAusIMM, FIChemE, FISS, FAIM, FAICD, FIEAust, CE, CPE, CSci, 
AMusA, Hon.MWIF 
Professor Batterham is Kernot Professor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He is also President of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and until recently was Group Chief Scientist, Rio Tinto Limited. He has had a distinguished career in research and technology, in the public and private sectors in areas such as mining, mineral processing, mineral agglomeration processes, and iron making. 
Professor Robin Batterham was Chief Scientist to the Australian Federal Government from 1999 to 2005 and remains on the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council. He has been President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the International Network for Acid Prevention and is President of the International Mineral Processing Congress. 

Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO 
Professor Marie Roslyn Bashir is the Governor of New South Wales and also the Chancellor of the University of Sydney. Born in Narrandera, New South Wales, the Governor graduated from the University of Sydney in 1956 and held various medical positions, with a particular emphasis in psychiatry. In 1993 the Governor was appointed as the Clinical Director of Mental Health Services for the Central Sydney Area, which she held until she was appointed as Governor in March 2001. She was further appointed in June 2007 as Chancellor of the University of Sydney. 

Adele Beachley, Managing Director Australia & New Zealand, Research in Motion 
(RIM) - BlackBerry 
In the capacity of Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, Research In Motion (RIM), Adele is responsible for RIM’s independent carrier partners in the region. A key focus in this role is to drive RIM’s world-class customer and partner focused initiatives to increase penetration of BlackBerry® in the region. 
Since joining RIM in 2002, Adele has led RIM’s carrier partner footprint expansion across Asia Pacific and EMEA. Based in Sydney, Australia, Adele concentrates her extensive experience on the APAC region solely, with a particular focus on Australia and New Zealand. 
Prior to joining RIM Adele undertook a number of senior positions based in the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. 
Adele is fluent in five languages and holds a strong interest in diversity and cross cultural relations. Her professional career has focused on breaking new ground and implementing the market entry strategy for RIM across all carriers in India, South Korea and Taiwan. 

Larry Blain 
Larry Blain is Chair of Partnerships BC Board of Directors. Prior to his appointment as Chair, Mr. Blain served as President and CEO of Partnerships BC from January 2003 to October 2010. Under Mr. Blain’s leadership, Partnerships BC has participated in more than 35 partnership projects with an investment value of $12 billion, of which $4.5 billion is private capital. 
Before joining Partnerships BC, Mr. Blain was an investment banker with Pemberton Securities, which was acquired by RBC Dominion Securities, which then became RBC Capital Markets. Over a 20 year period, he was responsible for senior coverage of major corporations and governments in western Canada, with specialization in public finance, utilities and infrastructure finance. 
Previously, Mr. Blain was an economist with the Bank of Canada and Director of Central Borrowing with the B.C. Ministry of Finance. 

Rodney Bloom 
Rodney Bloom is the General Manager, Business Development & International with CSIRO. He sits on the CSIRO Commercial Executive and oversees large enterprise relationships and commercial engagements. Rodney leads the facilitation of large enterprise relationships with Industry and Government both in Australia and in international markets, building and catalysing the organisation’s pipeline of opportunities to 2020 and beyond. He is also focussed on building the research and analytics capability towards having a clearer picture of current opportunities and where CSIRO should be placing their science investment in the future. 
Prior to this role, Rodney was the Managing Director of the Deloitte Innovation Academy, which is a forum for business, government, public and leading thinkers and researchers to progress new ideas towards delivering economic growth. 

The Honourable Bob Carr, Forum Co-Chair 
Bob Carr is the longest continuously serving Premier in New South Wales’ history. He retired from politics in 2005 after over 10 years as Premier. 
During these 10 years the State Government set new records for spending on infrastructure, became the first government in the State’s history to retire debt, hosted the world’s best Olympics in 2000 and achieved the nation’s best school literacy levels. 
As Premier he introduced the world’s first carbon trading scheme and curbed the clearing of native vegetation as anti-greenhouse measures. In 2003 he was made a life member of the Wilderness Society. He has also received the World Conservation Union International Parks Merit Award for creating 350 new national parks. 
Bob Carr has received the Fulbright Distinguished Fellow Award Scholarship. He has served as Honorary Scholar of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. He is the author of Thoughtlines (2002), What Australia Means to Me (2003), and My Reading Life (2008). 

Malcolm Cook 
Malcolm Cook is the happy carrier of both an Australian and a Canadian passport. Malcolm has been Program Director, East Asia at the Lowy Institute for International Policy since the Institute was launched in November 2003. He has a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University. He also holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the International University of Japan and an honours degree from McGill University. Before moving to Australia in 2000, Malcolm lived and worked in the Philippines, South Korea and Japan and spent much time in Singapore and Malaysia. Before joining the Institute in November 2003, he ran his own consulting practice on East Asian political and economic risk analysis. 
Next year, Malcolm will be leaving the Lowy Institute to become the Dean of the School of International Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide. 


Nicholas Curtis 
Mr. Curtis is the Executive Chairman of Lynas Corporation. He is also Chairman of Forge Resources Limited, a Non-Executive Director of Conquest Mining Limited, Chairman of the private corporate advisory firm, Sino Resources Capital Pty Ltd, Chairman of Faces in the Street Urban Mental Health Research Institute at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, a Director of St Vincent’s Health Australia Ltd and a Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. From August 2004 to October 2009 Mr. Curtis served as Chairman of the Board of St Vincents & Mater Health Sydney Limited. His background is in resources, banking and financing based on more than 25 years as a professional in the futures, commodities and stock broking industries. 

John W.H. Denton 
John Denton is Partner & Chief Executive Officer of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, one of Australia’s leading national law firms. As a former diplomat with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, John has extensive international negotiating expertise. 
John is one of three Prime Ministerial representatives on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), Chair of ABAC’s Sustainable Development Working Group, board member of the Business Council of Australia and Chair of its Global Engagement Taskforce. 
John was also appointed by the Prime Minister and Treasurer as one of two Australian delegates to the newly formed B20, a business reference group as part of the G20. He is a board member on the Commonwealth Business Council and plays an instrumental role in the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. 
John is Chairman of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Australia and Deputy Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts. 

The Honourable David L. Emerson P.C., PhD 
David Emerson has a doctorate in Economics from Queen’s University. He served as Canada’s Minister of Industry, Minister of International Trade and Minister of Foreign Affairs following a public service career in the Province of British Columbia and a business career that included CEO positions in banking, airports and forest products. He is presently Chair of the Energy Policy Institute of Canada, Chair of the Economic Strategy Council for the Premier of Alberta, and Co Chair of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on the public service. He is an active corporate director and serves on the boards of a number of public and private companies. 

Pat Fiore 
Pat Fiore is the president and chief executive officer of Rio Tinto Alcan ’s Bauxite & Alumina (B&A) business unit based in Brisbane, Australia. 
Rio Tinto Alcan’s B&A business unit operates and/or owns four bauxite mines and five smelter grade alumina refineries in Australia, Canada, Brazil and Guinea. 
Pat Fiore has been with Rio Tinto for 28 years where he has acquired a vast experience in technology and operations of mining and processing. 
In 2008 Pat was appointed COO of B&A Atlantic Operations, Rio Tinto Alcan. Prior to this Pat was Global Practice Leader Processing for Technology & Innovation in London and held that position for two years. Before his London posting, Pat was President of QIT in Sorel for five years. 

Peter Gallagher 
Peter Gallagher is a leading independent trade and public policy analyst. He is the author of a number of books on the WTO system published by WTO and has advised many governments and business organizations in Asia, Africa and the Pacific on the development of trade policies and trade agreements. Peter was a senior Australian trade negotiator in GATT through the 1980s and 1990s and held diplomatic posts in Brussels and Washington before leaving government to head the Australian dairy industry’s national council. Formerly at the University of Melbourne, he now teaches Masters courses on trade and development, part-time, at the University of Adelaide. 

Gary Halverson 
In December 2008, Gary Halverson was appointed president of Barrick’s Australia Pacific region, which includes eight mines in Australia and the Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea. In 2010, the region is expected to produce up to two million ounces of gold, or roughly 25 per cent of Barrick’s total production for the year. 
Gary brings 30 years of international mining and management experience to his role as regional president. Previously he managed a number of mines across Canada and the US with major companies, including Placer Dome, Falconbridge and Kinross. 

Brian Hansen 
Brian Hansen has been a partner of Stikeman Elliott for over 25 years and is Managing Principal and Practice Co-ordinator for the firm’s Asia Pacific practice. After graduation from New Zealand and Canadian universities, he taught at Canadian universities before commencing private practice in Calgary in 1979 and joined Stikeman Elliott when it opened its first office in the Asia / Pacific region in Hong Kong in 1981. Since then he has opened offices and developed new practice areas for Stikeman Elliott throughout the world with a constant focus on the Asia Pacific region. He has undertaken inbound Asian work and significant infrastructure and financing transactions in the region. His outbound work from the Asia Pacific region to Canada has concentrated on capital markets and debt sectors and cross border M&A with a particular emphasis on Australia/Canada and PRC SOE/Canada transactions in the natural resources and mining sectors. 

Stanley Hartt, Forum Co – Chair 
Stanley is Chairman of Macquarie Capital Markets Canada, having joined Macquarie Capital Advisers in 2009. Stanley was called to the Quebec Bar in 1965 and worked for the law firm Stikeman Elliott for twenty years. From 1985 to 1988, he was Deputy Minister of the Department of Finance, under Hon. Michael Wilson. From 1989 to 1990, he was Chief of Staff in the Office of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. From 1990 to 1996, he was Chairman, President and CEO of Campeau Corporation, a real estate and retailing enterprise. In 1996, he became Chairman of Salomon Brothers Canada Inc., later renamed Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc., a post he held until December 2008. 

Paul Kelly 
Paul Kelly is Editor-at-Large on The Australian. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of the paper. 
Paul has covered Australian governments from Gough Whitlam to Julia Gillard and is a regular television commentator. He is the author of seven books including The Hawke Ascendancy, The End of Certainty and November 1975. His most recent book, The March of Patriots offers a re-interpretation of Paul Keating and John Howard in office. 
Paul was Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year (1990) and was Weary Dunlop medallist for 2005. He holds a Doctor of Letters from Melbourne University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and is currently, in addition to his journalistic role, a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has been a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a visiting lecturer at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. 


The Honourable Kristina Keneally, MP NSW Premier and Minister for Redfern Waterloo. 
Premier Keneally has previously held the portfolios of Planning, Infrastructure, Ageing and Disability Services and was the Government spokesperson for World Youth Day 2008. 
Kristina’s three passions in life are social justice, the importance of community and living life with energy and enthusiasm. Before entering Parliament, Kristina was active in several community organisations in the South Sydney and Botany Bay area. She has worked as the State Youth Coordinator for the NSW Society of St. Vincent de Paul and also taught primary school in a ‘teacher shortage area’ in rural New Mexico. 

Brian Kingston 
Brian is the Chief Executive Officer of Prime Infrastructure and a Senior Managing Partner of its parent company, Brookfield Asset Management, with overall responsibility for Brookfield’s activities in Australia. From 2007 to 2010, he was Chief Financial and Investment Officer of Brookfield Multiplex, an Australian property and funds management business with more than 1.3 million sqm. of premier commercial office and retail properties under management. 
Brian joined Brookfield in 2001 and has held various senior management positions within the company and its affiliates, including mergers and acquisitions, merchant banking and real estate advisory services. 

The Honourable John Manley, P.C., O.C. 
The Honourable John Manley, was appointed President and Chief Executive of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) effective January 1, 2010. 
Mr. Manley is a former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. He was first elected to Parliament in 1988, and re-elected three times. From 1993 to 2003 he was a Minister in the governments of Jean Chrétien, serving in the portfolios of Industry, Foreign Affairs and Finance, in addition to being Deputy Prime Minister. 
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Mr. Manley was named Chair of a Cabinet Committee on Public Security and Anti-terrorism. In recognition of the role he played following 9/11, TIME Canada named him “2001 Newsmaker of the Year”. 
After a 16-year career in politics, Mr. Manley returned to the private sector in 2004. From 2004 to 2009 he served as Counsel to McCarthy Tétrault LLP, a leading Canadian law firm. 

Nicholas Moore 
Nicholas Moore was appointed CEO of Macquarie Group in May 2008. 
Macquarie is an international provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services, with more than 70 office locations in 28 countries and $A317 billion in assets under management at 30 September 2010. 
Nicholas joined Macquarie in 1986 and led the development of its investment banking division. He is now leading the continued global growth of Macquarie as it builds on its position as one of Asia-Pacific’s leading financial services providers. 
Nicholas completed his Bachelor of Commerce at the University of NSW in 1980 and his Bachelor of Laws in 1981. He was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW in 1982 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. 
Nicholas is Chairman of Police and Community Youth Clubs NSW, Chairman of the UNSW Business School Advisory Council and a Director of the Centre for Independent Studies.
 
Professor Ian O’Connor 
Professor Ian O’Connor was appointed Vice Chancellor and President of Griffith University in January 2005, taking the helm of one of Australia’s largest and most innovative tertiary institutions. Now home to more than 43,000 students from more than 131 countries, the University under his leadership has become one of the Asia-Pacific region’s most influential universities with research strengths in areas that address the key issues of our time. Griffith has strong Canadian links with nearly one thousand Canadian students. 
Professor O’Connor has served as a consultant to, or as a member of, various Government and non-Government bodies. Professor O’Connor is currently a board member of the Queensland Theatre Company, a board member of the Australian Universities Quality Agency, and a foundation board member of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. 

Claude Morin 

Claude Morin was appointed Vice President, Global Sales in September 2008. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of sales and product distribution for Air Canada on a global basis. Claude was previously responsible for the airline’s cargo activities as President & CEO, Air Canada Cargo, a limited partnership. Since joining Air Canada in 1985, he has held a number of senior management positions in Sales, including General Manager, France, responsible for passenger sales and operations, as well as Senior Director, Passenger Sales, responsible for all sales generated through the agency distribution network in North America.

Bob Onyschuk 
Partner of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP. Recognized by the U.K. Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, and The Best Lawyers in Canada, as one of the leading real estate and urban development practitioners. 
He has acted for many municipalities/largest development companies in Canada; member of the firm’s Infrastructure Industry Group, one of the largest in Canada, and which acts for major infrastructure companies/funds in Canada; counsel to the Province of Ontario on (1) urban economic development tools; (2) the Ontario Municipal Economic Infrastructure Finance Authority on structuring the $1bn Ontario Opportunity tax-exempt infrastructure bonds; (3) development of the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, recipient of a number of international awards; author of Smart Growth in North America, 2001. 
Chair of Canadian Australian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Chapter; immediate Past Chairman of the Canadian Urban Institute; member of the Toronto Board of Trade Economic Development Committee. 

John O’Rourke 
John O’Rourke is the founding Principal of Plenary Group, a property and infrastructure investment company, specialising in public private partnerships. 
Plenary Group has over $5.7 billion of PPP projects under development and operations across Australia and Canada. These include the Melbourne Convention Centre Development, one of the Victorian Government’s largest PPP, business tourism, and urban renewal projects undertaken and the Commonwealth Government Single LEAP project; a $300 million rollout of on-base single living accommodation for Defence Force personnel. 
In Canada, Plenary has been awarded 10 projects since opening its Vancouver and Toronto offices in 2006, including five major tertiary hospital developments. 
Prior to establishing Plenary Group in 2004, John spent 10 years leading the Melbourne based Infrastructure Capital business of ABN AMRO (formerly BZW), recognized at that time as the market leader in the PPP sector, successfully delivering a range of facilities across healthcare, education and justice portfolios. 

The Honourable Eric Roozendaal, MLC 
Treasurer of NSW, Special Minister of State, Minister for State and Regional Development, Minister for Ports and Waterways and Minister for the Illawarra. 
Mr Roozendaal was appointed Treasurer on 8 September, 2008 after serving as the NSW Minister for Roads and the Minister for Commerce. As Special Minister of State, he has responsibility for the delivery of the Nation Building and Jobs Plan Stimulus Package. He was first appointed to the Cabinet in August 2005. 
Since being sworn into the NSW Legislative Council in June 2004, Mr Roozendaal also held the posts of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Ports, Minister for Roads, Minister for Economic Reform and the Hunter. He was also Chair of the Standing Committee on State Development. 

Peter Salisbury 
Peter’s new business assists foreign investors (including AIMCO) coming into Australia. 
Peter joined Macquarie in 1990 and was one of the original founders of the Australian infrastructure business. In 1998 Peter moved to Toronto, Canada (as CEO) to establish Macquarie’s infrastructure business in North America. Whilst in Toronto until 2003, Peter was a director of the Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships and specialised in dealing with the large Canadian pension plans – to date they have invested A$ 12 billion into Macquarie deals and funds. 
Peter also spent a year as Managing Director with Deutsche Bank in London, UK as well as setting up a boutique infrastructure fund manager. 
Prior to Macquarie, Peter spent eight years in accounting and six years in project finance lending. 

Greg Sheridan 
Greg Sheridan is Foreign Editor of The Australian newspaper. 
Mr Sheridan is among the most influential foreign affairs analysts in Australian journalism. He began journalism in the late 1970s and his first trips into Asia were to cover the Vietnamese refugee stories in the early 1980s. In 1984 he joined The Australian as an editorial writer. In 1985 he was appointed Beijing correspondent, and in 1986 and 1987 was Washington correspondent. He was appointed chief editorial writer in 1988. He has been the foreign editor since 1992. He is a frequent foreign affairs commentator on radio and television. 


Jeffrey Simpson 
Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mail’s national affairs columnist, has won all three of Canada’s leading literary prizes -- the Governor-General’s award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing (twice). He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism. In January, 2000, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada. 
Born in New York, Mr. Simpson moved to Canada when he was 10 years old and studied at the University of Toronto Schools, Queen’s University and the London School of Economics.  Mr. Simpson published eight books between 1980 and 2007 and has written numerous magazine articles. He has taught at the Queen’s Institute of Policy Studies and The University of Ottawa Law School. He is now senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. 

Janice Gross Stein 
Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. 
Her most recent publications include Networks of Knowledge: Innovation in International Learning (2000); The Cult of Efficiency (2001); and Street Protests and Fantasy Parks (2001). She is a contributor to Canada by Picasso (2006) and the co-author of The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar (2007). 
She is an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Alberta, the University of Cape Breton and McMaster University. 

David Murray
David Murray joined the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 1966, was appointed Chief Executive Officer in June 1992, and retired in 2005. In his 13 years as Chief Executive, The Commonwealth Bank has transformed from a partly privatised government-owned bank to an integrated financial services company. In November 2005 the Australian Government announced that Mr Murray would be Chairman of the Future Fund. The Fund's objective is to invest budget surpluses to meet the long term pension liabilities of government employees and take the pressure off the budget from aging of the population.Mr Murray is the inaugural Chair of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds.In 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal for service to Australian Society in banking and corporate governance and in 2007 he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for his service to the finance sector both domestically and globally and service to the community.

Mitchell H Hooke
Mitchell H Hooke (Mitch) has been Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) since June 2002.  Before joining the MCA, he served as inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Food and Grocery Council and, prior to that, he was Executive Director of the Grains Council of Australia. Mr Hooke began his career as an agricultural adviser on Queensland’s Darling Downs where he pioneered zero-tillage ecological farming systems. He has been an active player in the Australian public policy debate particularly on trade and climate change issues.  He is currently a member of the Full Council of the International Council of Mining and Metals and its Executive Working Group. He is also a Director of Elgin National Industries, a Chicago-based private equity company of a global group of companies.

H.E. Mr Justin Brown - Australian High Commissioner to Canada
Mr Brown is a career foreign service officer. Among the positions he has held during his career are Ambassador for the Environment and chief trade negotiator.  He has served as Deputy at the Australian Mission to the European Union in Brussels and Consul General in Los Angeles. Prior to taking up his appointment in Ottawa, he was head of the secretariat for a review of Australia’s export policies and programs and before that, he was a member of the secretariat for a Prime Ministerial task group on emissions trading.