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JOCK LAURIE

Jock Laurie was appointed as New South Wales first Land and Water Commissioner in December 2012. Jock served as President of the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) from 2010 to 2013. He was also President of the NSW Farmers’ Association from 2005 to 2009.

Jock has served as Chair of the Rural Mental Health Network and on the Agricultural Ministerial Advisory Council, the Natural Resources Advisory Council, the NSW Workplace Health & Safety Strategy Review Committee, the AgStart Ministerial Advisory Board, and the Noxious Weeds Advisory Council.
Jock and his family run fine wool sheep, cross-bred lambs and cattle at their property near Walcha.
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JOHN LEE

Dr John Lee is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Sydney and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC. He is also an adjunct fellow at CIS and senior visiting fellow at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.

He is one of the foremost experts in the Chinese political-economy and the foreign policies of states in East and Southeast Asia, the U.S. and Australia, while recent work also looks at strategic and economic futures and defence planning. His opinion pieces and articles have been published in over 50 leading newspapers around the world and in leading international policy and academic journals. He received his doctorate from University of Oxford.
John’s wife, Dr Lavina Lee, is also speaking at Consilium.
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LAVINA LEE

Dr Lavina Lee is an academic at Macquarie University. She was previously a consultant with Control Risks Group, and held a research position with Chatham House, London. She is an expert in the role of culture and norms in international relations, international law on the use of force, international security, and nuclear non-proliferation issues. Her recent work also focuses on U.S., Indian and Russian foreign policy and developments in South and Central Asia.

She has a combined law and commerce degree from the University of NSW, a Master of Arts with distinction from King's College, University of London, and a doctorate in international relations from the University of Sydney. She is the author of US Hegemony and Legitimacy: Norms, Power and Followership in the Wars on Iraq."

Lavina’s husband, Dr John Lee, is also speaking at Consilium.

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ANDREW LEIGH MP

The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP, is the Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Federal Member for Fraser in the ACT. Prior to being elected in 2010, Andrew was a professor of economics at the Australian National University.

He has previously worked as a lawyer and as a principal adviser to the Australian Treasury. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, the only parliamentarian to be a fellow of one of the four national academies. In 2011, he received the 'Young Economist Award', a prize given every two years by the Economics Society of Australia to the best Australian economist under 40. His books include Disconnected (2010), Battlers and Billionaires (2013) and The Economics of Just About Everything (2014).
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DAVID LIBLING

David Libling was on the Executive Committee of Exxon (before it was ExxonMobil) in Australia. David has been a director or chairman of subsidiaries of National Mutual, Rothschilds Australia, Bank of America and Westpac Banking Corporation. For a decade he was director of the Sydney Grammar Foundation. He has also been an honorary consultant to the UK Law Reform Commission on Foreign Money.

Except for legacy assets, last year, David brought to an end his 29 years of family history and 15 years as the managing director of a private industrial property investment fund and became CEO of Pipeclay Lawson Ltd, a licensed custodian and industrial property asset manager.
David is attending Consilium with his wife, Sandy Libling. Sandy was one of the first female CEOs of an Australian listed company. She has worked as an executive producer in the Australian television industry. After having her second child, Sandy left full-time employment and consulted on the Australian film industry & investments to, among others, Rothschild Australia, Bank of NZ and NZ Insurance.
Sandy is a director of Lou’s Place and a number of investment companies in which she has been a key participant in risk analysis, project selection and strategic growth of the business and has had the carriage of a number of development & building projects. 
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GREG LINDSAY AO

Greg Lindsay AO is the Founder and Executive Director of The Centre for Independent Studies. While studying Philosophy at Macquarie University in the early 1970s, Greg became interested in the ideas underpinning a free and open society. A maths teacher by training, Greg taught for some years at Richmond High School in Western Sydney, and founded the Centre in 1976. Since then, he has overseen the development of the CIS into one of Australia’s most influential organisations covering three major policy areas – economic, social and international.

Greg has been active in the international liberal movement and is a former President of the Mont Pelerin Society.
Greg’s wife, Jenny Lindsay, is also attending Consilium.
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JENNY LINDSAY

Jenny Lindsay is a Board Member and General Manager of The Centre for Independent Studies and coordinates the Liberty & Society student conference program. Before joining the Centre for Independent Studies, she had worked in management in the retail industry; ran a retail training consultancy; and owned and managed Commentary Books, a specialised mail-order book business.

Jenny’s husband is Greg Lindsay AO, the Centre for Independent Studies’ Executive Director.
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