Housing Choices Annual Report 2016-17

SAUL ESLAKE (appointed - November 2016)

MEREDITH SUSSEX (appointed - June 2017)

OWEN DONALD (resigned - January 2017)

Saul is a well-known international and Australian leader and commentator in economics. In addition to a high profile commercial career, he has held numerous high-profile positions including a board directorship at the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), and senior roles at The National Housing Supply Council and the Grattan Institute. He has a Bachelor of Economics (Honours), is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and completed the Senior Executive Program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York.

Meredith Sussex is Chair of the Fishermans Bend Ministerial Advisory Committee in Victoria and a non-executive director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. She has also been a non-executive director of a number of Boards, including the Board of the Port of Melbourne. She lectures in the masters programme on urban governance at the University of New South Wales and provides high- level consulting advice on public policy, planning and management. Meredith has held senior positions in the Victorian Government, including Deputy Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet. From 2002-2006 she led the Office of Commonwealth Games Coordination, for which she was awarded the Order of Australia in 2007.

Owen has wide-ranging experience in housing policy and management. Owen’s career spans roles in the private and public sectors and academia. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has held a variety of governance roles over the past 20 years, including Chair of Barwon Health, Executive Director of AHURI, and Board membership of Southern Health, HomeGround Services, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the Melbourne Port Corporation. He is now the Chief Commissioner and Chairman of the Victorian Building Authority.

FABIENNE MICHAUX (appointed - January 2017)

PETER SMITH (resigned - September 2016)

PETER GALANTE (resigned - June 2017)

Fab has held a variety of executive and non-executive roles in a career spanning 30 years, including 22 years with S&P Global Ratings where she was Australian Country Head and Head of Developed Markets Asia-Pacific. She is principal of Petrichor Consulting Services Pty Ltd, member of the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing, board member and social enterprise advisory committee member of The Song Room, chair of KAGE Physical Theatre Inc., and an advisory board member of Deakin’s School of Business and Law. Fab holds a Bachelor of Business (Economics and Finance) with Distinction from RMIT University, and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Peter retired from ANZ Bank in 2005 after a 41-year career. He has extensive experience in both credit risk management and institutional and commercial banking in Australia and internationally. Senior roles included Assistant General Manager, International Credit Operations, State Manager Credit - Victoria & Tasmania, Chief Credit Executive, Wholesale Credit Operations and Head of Institutional Banking, UK, Europe & Americas (based in London). From 2008 to 2010, Peter returned to ANZ part-time to assist with portfolio assurance.

Peter has an engineering and commerce background. He has 25 years experience in information technology and telecommunication at management level, with the past ten years as CEO and Strategic Planner. He founded and remains a director of Galante Business Solutions, a management services consultancy to the health and aged care industry. He is also founder and director of Mornington Peninsula property development companies, Penplan Pty Ltd and Penplan Construction Pty Ltd.

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