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B Eng (University of Western Australia), BA (Oxon). Age 54.
Appointment and election: Director of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited in June 2006. Michael will stand for election in 2007 (notes a, c and e).
Skills and experience: Michael recently sold his interest in, and ceased to be a director of, Hastings Funds Management Ltd., the pioneering infrastructure asset management company which he founded in 1994. He is Chairman of the Victorian Funds Management Corporation, which manages funds on behalf of the State of Victoria, and of Treasury Group Limited, an incubator of fund management companies. He is a commissioner of the Australian Football League having previously played the game professionally, and is a former chairman of the Australian Sports Commission.
External appointments (current and recent):
Managing Director of Hastings Funds Management Ltd from 1994 to 2006.
Chairman of the Victorian Funds Management Corporation since 2006.
Chairman of Treasury Group Limited since 2005.
Director of Pacific Hydro Limited from 1996 to 2004.
Director of Australian Infrastructure Fund Limited from 1994 to 2005.
Director of the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research since 2001. | 