AIEF AMBASSADORS

Alan Kohler AM

Editor-in-Chief of InvestSMART

Editor-in-Chief of InvestSMART

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Eureka Report; Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Business Spectator; Finance presenter on ABC News


Former Business Editor of The 7.30 Report; and former roles at The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Alan Joyce AC

CEO and Managing Director of Qantas Airways Limited

CEO and Managing Director
of Qantas Airways Limited; Director of the International Air Transport
Association; Director of the Business Council of Australia; and Member of the
Male Champions of Change.

Former Chairman of the
International Air Transport Association; former Chairman of The Ireland Funds Australia; former CEO of Jetstar Airways; and former
leadership positions with Qantas Airways Limited, Ansett Australia and Aer
Lingus Group.

Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Janie Forrest

Chair of Coolaroo Foundation

Chair of Coolaroo Foundation, Managing Director of Alpaca International Australia and Councillor of Royal Agricultural Society NSW

John Hartigan AO

Former Chairman and CEO of News Corp Australia (formerly News Limited)

Former Chairman and CEO of News Corp Australia (formerly News Limited); Director of Australian Paralympic Committee;and Trustee of the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust.

Former Chairman of Destination NSW; former Chairman of Prime Media Group; former Chairman of Australian News Channel; former Director of the American Australian Association; and former Director of Foxtel.

Caroline Gurney

Chief Executive Officer of Future Generation Investment Company

Chief Executive Officer of Future Generation Investment Company

Former Managing Director, Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications, Australasia and Deputy Chief Communication Officer, Asia Pacific at UBS

Adriana Gardos

Director of the Tenix Foundation

Director of the Tenix Foundation.

John Eales AM

Founder of the Mettle Group, now part of Chandler Macleod

Founder of the Mettle Group, now part of Chandler Macleod; Director of Flight Centre Travel Group; Director of Magellan Financial Group; Director of FujiXerox DMS Asia Pacific; Director of the Australian Rugby Union; Director of Palladium Group.

Former Captain of the Australian Wallabies.

Geoff Dixon

Former Director of Crown Resorts Limited

Former Director of Crown Resorts Limited; Former Director of the Australian Museum of Contemporary Art.

Former Chairman of the Garvan Medical Research Foundation; Former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Qantas Airways Limited and former Chairman of Tourism Australia.

Tony Cripps

Managing Director at Saudi British Bank (SABB)

Managing Director at Saudi British Bank (SABB)

Former Chief Executive Officer for HSBC Bank Singapore Limited; Former Chief Executive Officer at HSBC Bank Australia, former Head of Foreign Exchange and Rates Strategy at HSBC Asia Pacific; former Head of e-Commerce, Global Banking and Markets at HSBC Group; former Head of Global Markets and Global Banking and Markets at HSBC Bank Australia; and former President and Chief Executive Officer at HSBC Philippines.

Former Chairman of HSBC Savings Bank and HSBC Insurance Brokers Inc.; former Chairman and Trustee of HSBC Retirement Trust Fund Inc.; and former Director of OCLP Holdings, Inc.

Bruce Corlett AM

Director of Buildcorp Foundation

Director of Buildcorp Foundation. Co-Patron of Sydney Boys High School Old Boys Union.


Former Chairman of many companies/organisations including Servcorp; The Trust Company Ltd; Adsteam Marine Ltd; Fortius Funds Management; Lifestart; Microsearch Foundation of Australia; Australian Maritime Safety Authority.


Former Director of many companies including TNT Ltd; Stockland Trust Group; Advance Bank.


Former Senate Fellow, University of Sydney; former Chairman of the Advisory Board, Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Sydney.

Brett Clegg

Founding Partner of Citadel-MAGNUS

Founding Partner of Citadel-MAGNUS and Chairman, Sydney Dance Company

Founding Partner of Cato & Clegg; former Director of hipages; former Council Member of the University of Technology Sydney; former Managing Director, Publishing at News Corp Australia; former Director of Committee for Sydney; former CEO and Publisher of the Australian Financial Review Group; and former Deputy Editor and Deputy CEO of The Australian.

Kerry Chikarovski AM

Founder and Director, Chikarovski & Associates

Founder and Director, Chikarovski & Associates

Director of Tender Loving Cuisine; Director of NSW Waratahs; Director of Our Watch; Chair of Road Safety Education; Director of NSW Rugby Union; Director of Adopt Change; Chair of NSW Women’s Rugby Union; and Director of the Humpty Dumpty Foundation

Former Parliamentary Member
of the Liberal Party of NSW; former Leader of New
South Wales Parliamentary Liberal Party; former Member for Lane
Cove; former Leader of the
Opposition of NSW; former Minister for
Consumer Affairs; former Assistant Minister
for Education; former Minister for
Industrial Relations and Employment; and former Minister for The
Status of Women.

Author of ‘Chika’ (2004)

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