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ROHAN MEAD

Rohan Mead was appointed Group Managing Director of Australian Unity Ltd in 2004. He is Chairman of Platypus Asset Management and Business Council of Australia’s Healthy Australia Task Force; Deputy Chair of Acorn Capital; a Director of Seres Asset Management (Hong Kong), the Australian Centre for Health Research, Private Healthcare Australia, and a board member for The Centre for Independent Studies.

Before joining Australian Unity, Rohan was with Perpetual Trustees Australia Ltd (19962003) in a range of senior roles, and headed marketing and communications at Blake Dawson.
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DANIEL MITCHELL

Daniel J. Mitchell is a Senior Fellow at Cato and top expert on tax reform and supply-side tax policy. Daniel is a strong advocate of a flat tax and international tax competition. Prior to joining Cato, Daniel was a senior fellow with The Heritage Foundation, and an economist for Senator Bob Packwood and the Senate Finance Committee.
He also served on the 1988 Bush/Quayle transition team and was Director of Tax and Budget Policy for Citizens for a Sound Economy. His articles can be found in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, and Washington Times. He is a frequent guest on radio and television and a popular speaker on the lecture circuit.
Daniel is joined at Consilium by his partner, Abir Doumit.
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TONY MOORE

Dr Tony Moore is a Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, and was Director of its National Centre for Australian Studies from 2010 to 2013. A cultural historian, Tony’s latest book is the critically acclaimed Dancing with Empty Pockets: Australia’s Bohemians Since 1860 (Pier 9/Allen & Unwin 2012).

Earlier publications include The Barry McKenzie Movies (2005) and Death or Liberty: rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788 – 1868 (2010), now commissioned as an ABC documentary. Tony had prior careers in documentary-making at ABC Television, publishing as Commissioning Editor at Pluto Press and Cambridge University Press, and in policy development and advocacy.
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PETER NOBLE

Peter Noble has recently retired as the Chief Corporate Governance Officer of TAL Dai-ichi Life Australia, Australia’s largest life insurer after seven years in that role. He holds a seat on the board of the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (Principles of Sustainable Insurance).

He is completing the Sustainability Report for TAL as a G4 initiative for 2014. Peter also sits on the board and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee of the Australian Meat Processors Corporation, an industry R&D company. He is an adjunct Professor in Law and Agriculture at UNE. Peter is a lawyer and has practised with international law firms in Australia, the USA and Asia.
Peter is joined at Consilium by his wife, Brigette Noble.
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KELLY O’DWYER MP

Kelly O’Dwyer MP is currently the Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics which has oversight of the Reserve Bank of Australia. She is also the Chairman of the Coalition’s Defence and Veterans’ Affairs Policy Committee and Convenor for the Australia-Americas Parliamentary Network.

Kelly is the founder and Chairman of the Parliamentary Friends of Women in Science, Maths and Engineering, an Ovarian Cancer Ambassador, a Dementia Champion and Patron of the Stonnington City Brass. Kelly is a former board member of Bowls Australia and has been a member of the Victorian Advisory Council of Camp Quality.
Kelly is attending Consilium with her husband, Jonathon Mant. Jonathon, is an Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank, focusing on strategic advice and complex mergers & acquisitions.  Previously, he was a Senior Associate in the corporate and commercial team at the law firm Allens Arthur Robinson and was seconded to the Australian Takeovers Panel.  
Jonathon is Chairman of the Alfred Deakin Lecture Trust and a Director of Big Issue in Australia Limited (which runs several social enterprises).  He is a regular participant in policy conferences and working groups.
Both Kelly & Jon are alumni of the CIS Liberty & Society student program.
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MARY O’KANE

Professor Mary O’Kane is the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer and also a company director and Executive Chairman of O’Kane Associates. She is also Chair of the Development Gateway and Development Gateway International, Chair of the CRC for Spatial Information, Chair of the Space Environment Management CRC and a director of NICTA, Capital Markets CRC and Business Events Sydney.

Mary was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide from 1996-2001. She is a former Chair of the board of the Australian Centre for Renewable Energy, a former member of the Commonwealth’s Review of the National Innovation System, Australian Research Council and the Co-operative Research Centres (CRC) Committee, the board of FH Faulding & Co Ltd and the board of CSIRO. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a Fellow of Engineers Australia.

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RODNEY O’NEIL

Rodney O’Neil is an investor and past Chairman and Joint Managing Director of Hymix Australia Pty Ltd, a family-owned hard rock quarrying and ready-mixed concrete company operating in three states in Australia. The family sold the business in 1999.

Other family business interests include Rollers Australia Pty Ltd, a roller road hire business operating throughout NSW and Queensland. In addition, the O’Neils own and run Gunlake Concrete and Gunlake Quarries, supplying ready-mixed concrete and quarry products in Sydney and the Southern Highlands. This is the third generation of O’Neil’s to be involved in this industry and in separate companies.
Rodney is attending Consilium with his wife, Judith O’Neil.
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