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Home > Forum Program > Keynote Speakers Keynote Speakers
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Mr Graham Kraehe AO
Chairman of the Australian Future Directions Forum
Graham Kraehe is one of Australia’s most experienced company directors. He is Chairman of Bluescope Steel Ltd, a position he has held since its public listing in July 2002. He is also a non executive Director of Brambles and Djerriwarh Investments. He recently retired as Chairman and Director of National Australia Bank and was previously a Director of News Corporation. He has an extensive background in manufacturing and the wine industry and was Chief Executive of Southcorp from 1994 till his retirement in February 2001. He was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2002 for services to industry and the environment.
The Hon. John Brumby MP
Treasurer
Minister for State and Regional Development
Minister for Innovation
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The Hon. Marilyn Warren AC
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Opening Keynote Address: Australia, Values and the Future: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Chief Justice Warren was appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria in November 2003. She is the first woman to have been appointed to this office in Australia. She is a graduate of Monash University. The Chief Justice commenced her legal career in the Victorian Public Service and was admitted to practice in 1975. She was employed in various government legal offices including as a senior legal policy adviser to three Attorneys-General, the Hon. Haddon Storey QC, the Hon. John Cain and the Hon. James Kennan SC. She was later appointed an assistant chief parliamentary counsel. Her Honour signed the Roll of the Victorian Bar in 1985 and practised predominantly in the areas of administrative law, commercial law and town planning. She served as a member of the Bar Council's Law Reform Committee for eight years from 1986 to 1994. In 1997 she was appointed Queen's Counsel. In 1998 she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria and presided in all jurisdictions, in particular, the Corporations List and the Commercial List of which she was the judge in charge. Her Honour was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) by Monash University in 2004. In June 2005, the Chief Justice was one of seven people to receive the highest Australian award in the Queen's birthday honours list, receiving a Companion in the Order of Australia (AC) for her services to the judiciary and legal profession in delivery and administration of law in Victoria; to social and economic conditions of women; and to forensic medicine internationally.
The Chief Justice has sat in a number of significant trials and appeals, including the Computershare cases, the Ansett Superannuation and Distronics cases and the Popovic , Elliott, Debs and Roberts and Esso appeals. Her Honour continues to sit in all jurisdictions in her capacity as Chief Justice. Her Honour has also delivered a number of speeches and papers since her appointment some of which are available on the Supreme Court website: www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au.
The Chief Justice is President of the Victorian Law Foundation, Chair of the Judicial College of Victoria, Chair of the Council of Legal Education and Chair of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine. Her Honour is also the patron of Victorian Women Lawyers. She will assume the role of Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria on 7 April 2006.
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Professor Ian Lowe AO
Emeritus Professor, School of Science, Griffith University
President, Australian Conservation Foundation
Forum Keynote Address: Shaping Sustainable Futures
Professor Ian Lowe AO is emeritus professor of science, technology and society at Griffith University in Brisbane, an adjunct professor at Sunshine Coast University and an honorary research fellow at the University of Adelaide.
Professor Lowe was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2001 for services to science and technology, especially in the area of environmental studies. In 2002 he was awarded a Centenary Medal for contributions to environmental science and won the Eureka Prize for promotion of science. His contributions have also been recognised by the Prime Minister's Environment Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement, the Queensland Premier's Millennium Award for Excellence in Science and the University of NSW Alumni Award for achievement in science. Professor Lowe is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and was named Humanist of the Year in 1988.
Professor Lowe studied engineering and science at the University of NSW and earned his doctorate in physics from the University of York. He is the author or co-author of 10 Open University books, 8 other books, 50 book chapters and over 500 other publications or conference papers.
From 1983 to 1989 Professor Lowe was a member of the National Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Council, chairing its standing committee on social, economic and environmental issues. He was Director of the Commission for the Future in 1988, and chaired the advisory council that produced the first independent national report on the state of the environment in 1996. He is a member of the Environmental Health Council and the Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council. He is a member of the Sydney Olympic Park advisory committee and chairs the Queensland Government task force implementing the reform of science education. He is deputy chair of the Queensland Sustainable Energy Innovation Group, which advises the State government on energy innovations. He is a member of the National Commission for UNESCO and has conducted consultancies for all three levels of government as well as companies and peak organisations in the private sector.
Professor Lowe has been a referee for the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, attended the Geneva and Kyoto conferences of the parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change and was a member of the Australian delegation to the 1999 UNESCO World Conference on Science. He was on the steering group for the UNEP project Global Environmental Outlook, an invited participant in the 2000 workshop on Sustainability Science and a referee for both the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program's 2004 book on planetary science and the 2005 Millennium Assessment Report.
Professor Lowe has made countless contributions to newspapers, radio, television and periodicals since 1991. He gave the ABC's Boyer Lectures in 1991 and was a member of the advisory group for Brisbane's Ideas at the Powerhouse for the four years of that event. He is a member of the board of Major Brisbane Festivals Ltd and former President of Queensland Academy of the Arts and Sciences.
In 2004, Professor Lowe was elected ACF President. He has spent his time as head of ACF using his status as one of the world's foremost climate change scientists to promote awareness of climate change in Australia and the world.
In his spare time, Professor Lowe plays cricket, as probably the oldest serious outswing bowler in Queensland club cricket, sings tenor in choral groups, walks in the Australian bush and overseas mountains, reads voraciously, watches films and is trying to improve his golf game. He lives on the Sunshine Coast with his partner, Patricia Kelly. Between them they have three adult sons.
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Mr Allan Gyngell
Executive Director, Lowy Institute for International Policy
Forum Keynote Address:
Australia & the World
Mr Allan Gyngell, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, has a wide background in international policymaking in Australia. He joined the then Department of External Affairs in 1969 and had postings to Rangoon, Singapore and Washington. He then spent a number of years working for the Office of National Assessments, Australia's national intelligence analysis organisation. He also headed the International Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, from where he was appointed in 1993 as foreign policy adviser to the Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating.
He has worked as a consultant to a number of Australian companies. His book Making Australian Foreign Policy, co-written with Michael Wesley, was published by Cambridge University Press in July 2003. He is a member of the Australian Government's Foreign Affairs Council.
He was educated in history and political science at Melbourne University.
Research interests:
Australian foreign policy; Intelligence policy; Diplomacy and policymaking
Publications:
(with Michael Wesley), Making Australian Foreign Policy, Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Mr Bernard Salt
Partner, KPMG
Forum Keynote Address:
The Big Shift - Business Implications of Demographic Change in Australia
Please note that this is a Microsoft Powerpoint document (4MB)
Mr Bernard Salt is a Partner with KPMG Australia heading Property Advisory Services based in Melbourne. Bernard holds Bachelor of Education and Master of Arts degrees and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Bernard has established an enviable reputation as an advisor to leading property investors and developers on matters relating to market demand. Bernard's client list reads like a Who's Who of Australian business: AMP Capital Investors, Macquarie Bank, Gandel Group, Australand, Delfin, Consolidated Properties, Sunland, MAB Corporation, VicUrban and others.
Bernard is, however, best known to Australian business for his commentary in the media on the business implications of demographic and social change. He is a columnist with The Australian, MELBOURNE magazine and Property Australia and is the author of the popular best-selling book The Big Shift: Welcome to the Third Australian Culture.
Bernard has appeared on television programs such as Sunday, The Today Show, A Current Affair, Today Tonight and Healthy, Wealthy & Wise.
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Mr Graham Kraehe AO
Chairman of the Australian Future Directions Forum
Graham Kraehe is one of Australia’s most experienced company directors. He is Chairman of Bluescope Steel Ltd, a position he has held since its public listing in July 2002. He is also a non executive Director of Brambles and Djerriwarh Investments. He recently retired as Chairman and Director of National Australia Bank and was previously a Director of News Corporation. He has an extensive background in manufacturing and the wine industry and was Chief Executive of Southcorp from 1994 till his retirement in February 2001. He was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2002 for services to industry and the environment.
