The General Sir John Monash Awards

The General Sir John Monash Foundation

The Patron-in-Chief of the Foundation is Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.

The Foundation is a charitable organisation formed in Australia as a public company limited by guarantee. It has named status in Australian income tax legislation as a “Deductible Gift Recipient.”

Its purpose is to raise funds for, and to administer, Australia’s most prestigious postgraduate scholarships – the General Sir John Monash Awards - to recognise academic excellence and leadership.

A Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer administer the Foundation. They are currently:

Chairman:		General Peter Cosgrove AC MC (Retd) General Cosgrove is a graduate from the Royal Military College, Duntroon. He was the Chief of the Australian Defence Force from 3 July 2002 until his retirement in July 2005. General Cosgrove was appointed a Companion of the Military Division of the Order of Australia for his role as commander of the international forces in East Timor, ending in 2000. He was awarded the Military Cross during his service in Vietnam. His other awards include the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) and Commander of the United States Legion of Merit. General Cosgrove was Australian of the Year in 2001.

Directors:		Mr David Clarke David Clarke was a 2007 Award Winner. David holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne and he used his Monash Award to gain a Masters of Public Administration at Harvard University. In the lead up to his Award, David acted as a strategic change consultant with CARE International, a leading international humanitarian NGO, and as economic development consultant with the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership. David is currently a project leader with the Boston Consulting Group in Melbourne.

		Mr John M. Green John M. Green is a director, investor and writer. In addition to the General Sir John Monash Foundation, John is also a director of two other not-for-profits, Macquarie Bank Foundation and the Centre for Independent Studies. He is also a director of WorleyParsons Limited. Until August 2006, he was an investment banker at Macquarie Bank, where he was an executive director for 13 years. His professional career before investment banking was 17 years in law, including as a partner in two law firms, Freehills and Dawson Waldron. In past years, he was also a member of the ASX National Listings Committee and held a number of posts in the Securities Institute of Australia (now Finsia).

		Mrs Yolanda Klempfner AO LLB Mrs Yolanda Klempfner is Chair of the Foundation’s National Awards Committee. She is a lawyer in Victoria and is currently Investment Director for Texmond Mgt. Yolanda is a Board Member of Epworth Hospital, RMIT Foundation and RMIT Gallery and is a Trustee of the National Council for Jewish Women and a Member of the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal. She was formerly Chancellor of RMIT.

		Mr Michael Robinson AO LLB Mr Michael Robinson is a Consultant to the law firm, Allens Arthur Robinson. He was the Senior Partner of Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks during 1996-2001 and was its Managing Partner 1980-1988. He was Chairman of TABCORP Holdings Limited and a Director of Clough Limited until November 2007.

		Ms Jillian Segal AM Jillian is a Director of the National Australia Bank and the Australian Securities Exchange Limited, a member of the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council and President of the Administrative Review Council. She is also a member of the Council of the University of New South Wales and involved with a number of other community not-for-profit organisations. Jillian has had a career in law, regulation, governance and policy development. Formally she was Chairman of the Banking and Financial Services Ombudsman Board and a Member of the Audit Standards Oversight Board for PricewaterhouseCoopers. From October 1997 to June 2002, Jillian was a Commissioner of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), being Deputy Chair from November 2000 to June 2002. Prior to joining ASIC, Jillian was a corporate lawyer specialising in corporate and environmental law, having been a partner at Allen Allen & Hemsley (now Allens Arthur Robinson). Jillian is a graduate in arts and law from UNSW and has a Masters of Law from Harvard Law School.

		Dr Peter Shergold AC BA (Hons) MA PhD Peter is the Macquarie Group Foundation Professor at the Centre for Social Impact, a cross-university partnership of the business schools at the University of New South Wales, Melbourne University and Swinburne University of Technology. Peter had been Head of the Department of Economic History at the University of NSW before joining the Australian Public Service. In his 20 years in the Australian Public Service, Peter served as Public Service Commissioner, CEO of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Secretary of the Department of Workplace Relations and Small Business and Secretary of the Department of Education, Science and Training, before serving as Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from February 2003 for five years. Peter is also a non-Executive Director of AMP Ltd and the Chairman of QuintessenceLabs, a venture capital start-up. In the not-for profit arena he is Chairman of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation, a director of the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence.

		Emeritus Professor Deane Terrell AO BEc MEc(Hons) PhD Professor Deane Terrell is an Emeritus Professor at the National Graduate School of Management at The Australian National University (ANU). He is currently Chair of the AARNet Board of Management, Vice President of IDP Education Australia, Chair and Board Member of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), Chair of the Board of the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation and Chair of the Board of Karley Technologies Pty Ltd, and Member of the Canberra School of Music Foundation and the Advisory Board for the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (CAIS). He has held directorships on the Board of the Australian Vice-Chancellor’s Committee, and the Australian Education Office (Washington).

Chief Executive Officer and Company Secretary:		Dr Peter Binks, BSc (Hons)(Tas) DPhil (Oxon) Peter succeeded Ken Crompton as Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation on September 1, 2009. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, submitting a doctoral thesis in Theoretical Physics on modeling of the orbits of stars in normal galaxies. After leaving Oxford, Peter has had a corporate career with consultants McKinsey & Company, resources firm BHP, and telecommunications company Telstra. From 2003 he was Chief Executive Officer of technology firm Nanotechnology Victoria. He is also a Director of Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited.

Members:	Mr James Barry AM MBE RFD ED Mr Michael Bennett Mr Allan Blankfield OAM Mr Graham Brooke AM Mr Wesley Browne OAM Mr David Clarke Mr Peter Clemenger AM Major-General Kevin Cooke, AO RFD ED (Retd) General Peter Cosgrove AC MC (Retd) Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO QC Mr Ken Crompton Professor Peter Darvall AO Mr John Davies The Hon Sir William Deane AC KBE Emeritus Professor Anne R Edwards AO The Hon Tim Fischer Sir James Gobbo AC QC Mr Charles Goode AC Mr John B Gough AO OBE Mr John M. Green Professor John Hay AC The Hon Bill Hayden AC Sir John Holland AC Mr Peter Isaacson AM DFC AFC DFM Mrs Yolanda Klempfner AO Mr Sam Lipski AM Emeritus Professor Anthony Low AO Mr David Lowy AM Mr Hugh Morgan AC Professor Mal Nairn AM Ms Linda Nicholls Dr Helen Nugent AO Ms Lara Olsen Mr Brian Paroissien Mr George Polites AC MBE CMG Mr John Ralph AC Mr Michael Robinson AO Mr Stephen Rothman SC Ms Jillian Segal AM Dr Peter Shergold AC The Hon Warwick Smith AO Rt Honourable Sir Ninian Stephen AK GCMG GCVO KBE Emeritus Professor Deane Terrell AO Professor Mark Wainwright AM

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