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. |