UTS Book Launch Speakers Biographies

BOOK LAUNCH SPEAKERS Wednesday 5 December 2007 6pm-8pm

JANE BRIDGE

Jane Bridge is one of Australia's foremost authorities on the development of company directors. Formerly she was Director of Personnel Policy for the New South Wales Premier's Department, becoming the Director General of the New South Wales Department for Women from 1992-95. She was a Partner of Pro-Ned Ltd the non-executive director search firm from 1996-99, before launching Boardroom Partners a consultancy which advises boards and their directors on how to improve performance. She works with the boards of publicly listed companies, private companies, advisory boards, and government boards at both state and federal level, with a focus on director recruitment and performance and board operations.

Jane is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Chief Executive Women.

Jane is Chair of the Chief Executive Women's Committee on CEO Kit for Attracting and Retaining Female Talent, and is a Member of the Advisory Board of the UTS Centre for Corporate Governance.

IAN DUNLOP

Ian Dunlop has enjoyed a distinguished international business career. As an executive in the resources industries, he worked for Shell International Petroleum in the UK, Netherlands, Turkey, and Nigeria for ten years, before becoming responsible for coal for Shell Australia in the late 1970s. Subsequently he was Managing Director of Austen and Butta Ltd and of Bellambi Coal. He was Chairman of the Australian Coal Association in 1998 and earlier of the New South Wales Coal Association.

In 1998 he was appointed Chairman of the Experts Group on Emissions Trading by the Australian Greenhouse Office, and after his long experience in the resources business, since 2001 has become an International Consultant on Governance and Sustainability, and published a series of passionate articles on Responsibility and Trust: Corporations, Society and the Common Good (2006); The Sustainability Tipping Point (2006); and Climate Change and Peak Oil: An Integrated Policy (2007).

Ian graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge. From 1997 to 2001 Ian was the Chief Executive of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Presently he is Chairman of the Australian National Wildlife Collection Foundation of the CSIRO.