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Chair: Mr Roderick West

Mr West has a distinguished record in education, having retired in 1996 as Headmaster of Trinity Grammar School in Sydney. In his 21 years at the helm of Trinity Mr West presided over the most impressive period of sustained growth that the school has experienced. His leadership qualities are well recognised and have contributed to the school's international recognition and its current position of eminence. He previously taught at The King's School, Parramatta; Timbertop-Geelong Grammar School; Fort Street Boys' High School; Cootamundra High School; and King Edward's School, Witley, Godalming, Surrey, England.

Mr West was Secretary to the Headmasters' Conference of NSW from 1989 to 1993 and President of the Classical Association of NSW from 1991 to 1993. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the Synod of the Diocese of Sydney, a member of the Education Issues Committee of the Anglican Education Commission, and a Trustee of Moore Theological College.

Mr West holds a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the University of London and a Master of Arts in Latin from the University of Sydney. He is a fellow of the Advanced College of Education.

Mr Gary Banks

Mr Banks is Executive Commissioner with the Industry Commission which he joined in 1990. Since then he has completed a dozen major reports on a variety of public policy and regulatory topics, including the Commission's report on Research and Development. He is currently presiding on the Private Health Insurance inquiry, as well as having special responsibility in the area of regulation review.

Mr Banks was born in Melbourne and holds degrees in Economics from Monash University and the Australian National University.

Before joining the Commission, he spent two years with the Centre for International Economics in Canberra, where he managed projects for corporate clients as well as the OECD and the World Bank. In earlier years, Mr Banks was a lecturer at the University of New South Wales and Senior Economist with the GATT Secretariat in Geneva.

Professor Peter Baume AO

Professor Baume is currently Professor of Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales and was Head of School between 1991 and 1995. He is also Chancellor of the Australian National University. Educated in Sydney and trained as a gastroenterologist, he qualified as a physician and held posts in Birmingham, Nashville, Tennessee and the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.

From 1974-91 he was a Senator for New South Wales. He was Government Deputy Whip and Government Whip before becoming Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for Health and then Minister for Education and a Minister in Cabinet. Between 1983 and 1987 he was a Shadow Minister before resigning from the Shadow Cabinet over the issue of equal employment opportunity for women.

Professor Baume is Foundation Chair of the Australian Sports Drug Agency, has been Deputy President of the National Council on AIDS, was President of the New South Wales Branch of the Public Health Association (1992-94), was Chair of the Drug Offensive Council in New South Wales, is a part-time Commissioner of the Law Reform Commission, and holds a number of other positions in the community. With appointment as Chancellor of the ANU he has relinquished the Headship of the School of Community Medicine. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1992.

Professor Lauchlan Chipman

Professor Chipman is Vice Chancellor of the Central Queensland University. Prior to his current appointment in 1996, he held the positions of Deputy Vice Chancellor and Pro Vice Chancellor at Monash University.

Professor Chipman's distinguished academic career spans the fields of philosophy, law and education. He has held academic appointments at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, Wollongong and Sydney, and Harvard and Monash Universities. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Melbourne, Bachelors and Doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford and a Diploma of Education (Tertiary) from the University of New England.

Professor Chipman has been a member of the Board of Governors of Frensham and Gib Gate Schools in Mittagong and Chairman of the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. He has served as Ministerial nominee on the Illawarra Area Health Services Board and is a former member of the SBS Community Advisory Committee. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Education.

Dr Doreen Clark

Dr Clark is Managing Director of Analchem Bioassay Pty Ltd, a firm providing chemical and microbiological testing services to industry, government and the community. She is also a founding director of Organic Crop Protectants Pty Ltd, a firm developing and marketing environmentally friendly agricultural chemicals.

She trained as an organic chemist with an honours degree in science from Sydney University and a doctorate from the University of New South Wales. She founded her business in 1969 and developed it from a home based occupation to a leading Australian commercial laboratory.

In 1992, Dr Clark was appointed a Commissioner of the National Standards Commission and in 1995 she became its Chair. She is one of a handful of women elected to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. In 1994 she was the first woman to be elected National President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. She is a member of the Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council. She is a member of the Council of the University of Technology, Sydney.

Mr Clem Doherty

Clem Doherty is a Board Member(co-opted) of the Australian Coalition of Service Industries, an Advisory Council member of the Media & Telecommunications Policy Group at RMIT and a member of the International Advisory Committee of Vic Multimedia.

Mr Doherty retired as a Director of McKinsey & Company in 1996. At McKinsey he led the Asia-Pacific Telecommunications, Electronics, Media & Multimedia Sector and was co-leader of the Global Telecommunications Sector. He was also a member of the firm's Global Technology Committee. In his seventeen years at McKinsey he worked with leading telecommunications, media and multimedia companies in areas of strategy, tactics, innovation and transformation. He worked in Australia, US, Germany and extensively in Asia, including Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong and India. He has also advised governments on service sector policy.

He is a regular speaker at national and international business forums such as the Royal Institute of International Affairs 1994 Conference on Multimedia & Telecommunications in the 21st Century (London), Committee for the Economic Development of Australia and the Australian Coalition of Service Industries. He chaired the Telecommunication Industry Forum at the Pacific Basin Economics Council meeting in Kuala Lumpur in 1994.

He is a co-author of the upcoming report (1997) "australia.com, Australia's future on-line" for the Australian Coalition of Service Industries.

He was educated in Australia and the USA receiving bachelors degrees in science and electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales and an MBA from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and received the Mason Smith Award in General Management as the outstanding student in business policy.

Professor Kwong Lee Dow AM

Professor Kwong Lee Dow is Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne and is one of the longest serving deans in Australia, having been Dean of Education continuously since 1978.

For six years he was Foundation Chairman of a Victorian Government statutory body established in 1976 to conduct state-wide year 12 examinations and school assessments. Later, for four years he was Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne serving as Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Academic Board. More recently, he has been a member of the Higher Education Council of the National Board of Employment, Education and Training.

His current appointments include member of the Standards Council for the Teaching Profession in Victoria, Chair of the National Asia Education Foundation, and member of the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation, and the Governing Council of the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

He became a member of the Order of Australia for services to education in 1984 and in 1994 received the Sir James Darling Medal from the Australian College of Education.

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