Board of Advisors
Mr. Dennis Richardson
Dennis Richardson was appointed as Ambassador of Australia to the United States in June 2005.
He has been a career public servant since 1969 when he joined Australia's Foreign Service. He has served in Nairobi, Port Moresby and Jakarta. From October 1996 until his appointment to Washington he served as Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. Prior to that he was Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (1993-1996). Mr Richardson has served in various senior public service roles in the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Foreign Affairs and Trade and Immigration. He was Head of the Review of the Intelligence Community post Cold War in 1992 and Principal Adviser to the Prime Minister from 1990 to 1991. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2003.
Dr. Roy Ferguson
Roy Ferguson is the Ambassador of New Zealand to the United States. Roy Ferguson has been Director of the Americas Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the last four years and was on the Board of the New Zealand-United States Council, Fulbright New Zealand and the Ian Axford Fellowships. He previously served in Washington as Deputy Chief of Mission between 1991 and 1995. From 1999-2002 he served as New Zealand Ambassador to South Korea, and has also served in Manila and Canberra.
Ambassador Ferguson was educated at the University of Canterbury, the University of Pennsylvania, and more recently at the Harvard Business School where he completed the Advanced Management Programme.
Dr. Carol Lancaster
Carol Lancaster is Interim Dean of the School of Foreign Service. She is also a professor of politics in the School of Foreign Service with a joint appointment in the Department of Government.
She has published numerous books and articles on the politics of foreign aid, the politics of development and development in Africa. Her newest book is George Bush's Foreign Aid: Transformation or Chaos? by the Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C. 2008. Her recent books include Foreign Aid: Diplomacy, Development, Domestic Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Organizing US Aid for the 21st Century (with Ann Van Dusen, published by the Brookings Institution, 2006) and Foreign Aid and Private Sector Development (with Kwaku Nuamah, Matthew Lieber and Todd Johnson published by the Watson Institute at Brown University, 2006).
She has been a Carnegie Fellow and a recipient of a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. She has also been a Congressional Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow and a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics and (currently) the Center for Global Development.
Dr. Lancaster has also had an extensive career in government. She was the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1993 to 1996. She worked at the U.S. State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1980-81 and for the Policy Planning Staff from 1977-80. In addition, she has been a Congressional Fellow and worked for the Office of Management and Budget.
She has been a consultant for the United Nations, the World Bank and numerous other organizations. She serves on the board of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Vital Voices, the Society for International Development and the advisory board for Center for Global Development.
She is currently working on a book entitled Evangelicals and World Poverty.
Dr. Alan Tidwell
Alan C. Tidwell is currently the Director of the Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies located in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
From 2001 through 2004 he was a program officer with the United States Institute of Peace, where he focused on conflict resolution and education. His area of specialization includes work on conflict in the Australasian region. Prior to joining the Institute in 2001, he was a senior lecturer in management at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia, where he taught courses in conflict resolution and negotiation. Tidwell served for several years as director (1995-97) and deputy director (1992-94) of the Centre for Conflict Resolution at Macquarie University and as acting executive director and research director (1994-95) of the Australian Centre for American Studies at Sydney University. In 1999, he was honored by Macquarie University with an Outstanding Teaching Award. Tidwell holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England, a master of professional ethics from the University of New South Wales, and an M.S. in conflict resolution from George Mason University.
Mr. Bob Carr
Bob Carr was Premier of New South Wales from 1995 through to his retirement from politics in 2005. During his Premiership the New South Wales State Government set new records for spending on infrastructure, became the first government in the State's history to retire debt, hosted the world's best Olympics, achieved the nation's best school literacy levels, and Forbes magazine called Bob Carr a "dragon slayer" for his landmark tort law reforms.
He has received wide international recognition including the Fulbright Distinguished Fellow Award Scholarship and World Conservation Union International Parks Merit Award. He has served as Honorary Scholar of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. He is also Chair of the Board of the Asbestos Diseases Research Foundation; a member of the Board of the Dymocks Group of Companies, a member of the Council of Global Network Partners and a member of the India Council for Sustainable Development.
Mr. Graeme Wheeler
Mr. Graeme Wheeler is Managing Director, Operations, at the World Bank Group, responsible for several networks ― Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Financial and Private Sector Development, Human Development, and Sustainable Development ― the World Bank Institute, and the General Services Department.
Mr. Wheeler previously held the position of Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank from August 2001. He joined the World Bank in 1997 as Director of the Financial Products and Services Department. For the previous four years, he was the Treasurer of the New Zealand Debt Management Office and a Deputy Secretary to the New Zealand Treasury. Prior to this, he was Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Forecasting in the New Zealand Treasury. During the second half of the 1980s, Mr. Wheeler was the Economic Counselor for the New Zealand Delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.
Mr. Wheeler is the author of a book on Sound Practice in Government Debt Management, and a recipient of a Best Manager Award in the World Bank.
Rev. Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J.
In July 2004, Rev. Jeffrey von Arx, S.J., assumed the presidency of Fairfield University. A historian by discipline, Fr. von Arx began his academic career at Georgetown University, where he taught in the History Department from 1982 to 1998 and was its chair from 1991 to 1997. While at Georgetown he was a founding Director of the Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies in the School of Foreign Service. He then moved into administration at Fordham University, serving as Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill from 1998 until his selection as president by the Fairfield University Board of Trustees in 2004./p>
Fr. von Arx graduated from Princeton University in 1969 and entered the Society of Jesus that summer. He subsequently earned an M.A. and M.Phil. in history at Yale University, and completed his Ph.D. there in 1980. A year later, Fr. von Arx received an M.Div. from the Weston School of Theology and was ordained a priest.
Mr. John Denton
John Denton is Partner and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Corrs, Chambers, Westgarth, in Sydney, Australia. His area of specialization is labor law, and his clients include major companies across a range of industries including mining, aviation, finance, telecommunications, hospitality, retail and food processing. Prior to joining Corrs, Chambers, Westgarth in 1990 he served in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for seven years. During his diplomatic service he was Counsellor and Charge d' Affaires - Australian Embassy, Baghdad and from 1989 - 1990 he was the Deputy Head of Mission and First Secretary, Australian High Commission, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
He is a graduate of Harvard Business School, and the University of Melbourne. He sits on numerous boards and committees including the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Global Foundation, Business Council of Australia, Centre of Labour and Employment Law, and the Australia Asia Young Leaders Program. He has been an active member of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue since 2001.
Ms. Kim McKay
A multi award-winning visionary marketer and communications professional with more than 25 years experience, Kim has recently returned from the United States after working for two of the world's leading documentary cable television channels -- National Geographic Channels International, where she was a Senior Vice President and Discovery Channel.
Kim co-founded the highly acclaimed Clean Up Australia and Clean Up the World campaigns, devised the national and international public communications and corporate support programs and forged the long-term relationship with the United Nations Environment Program. Kim is Deputy Chair of both organizations. Kim is a board member of the Business Leader's Forum on Sustainable Development; and is on the advisory board of the RANZCO Eye Foundation; and the advisory board for the Center for Australian Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. She graduated with a BA (Communications) from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a fellow of the Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA). Kim is a sought-after public speaker and appears regularly at marketing, communications and sponsorship conference.
Dr. Richard F. Southby
Dr. Richard Southby is Executive Dean and Distinguished Professor of Global Health in the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Health Affairs at The George Washington University Medical Center. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.
Dean Southby joined The George Washington University faculty in 1979. Prior to his initial academic appointment at GW, Dean Southby served as Director of Health Services Research and Teaching in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at The University of Sydney, Australia. Additionally, he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Monash University for ten years and served as a full time Commissioner on the Australian Hospitals and Health Services Commission. Dean Southby is a Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK; an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine; and an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health, Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom. He is presently an Honorary Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. Dean Southby received a B.Com. degree from The University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1965, an M.P.A. degree from Cornell University, New York, in 1967, and a Ph.D. degree from Monash University, Australia, in 1973.
Mr. Malcolm Binks
Malcolm Binks has been Chairman of the American Australian Association since 1999. From 1961 to 1975 he was an executive with The British Petroleum Company and from 1975-1977 was financial advisor to the Canadian Arctic Gas Pipeline project. In 1978, Malcolm joined Merrill Lynch in New York as a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division, working principally on Australasian and Asia Pacific business. From 1991, he was located in Japan and Hong Kong and was responsible for Merrill Lynch's Investment Banking activities in Japan and the Asia-Pacific Region. In 1995 Malcolm returned to New York as Senior Vice President, Merrill Lynch International with responsibilities for business development in the Asia Pacific Region. He originated Merrill Lynch's acquisition of McIntosh Securities in Australia. He retired from Merrill Lynch in 1999. He is a director of The United States - New Zealand Council and the India-American Chamber of Commerce (NY) Inc. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Korea Economic Institute of America. He has also established a financial advisory consulting business, focusing primarily on Australia and New Zealand.
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Mrs. Diana Hannes
Diana Hannes has a strong background in strategic marketing and advertising. She has held senior positions in publishing, advertising and banking industries in Australia and worked for large international organizations such as News Corporation, Westpac Bank and Meredith Corporation. Diana was responsible for a number of successful new product launches, including the introduction of electronic banking and EFPOS at Westpac and was part of the team that launched Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens in the Australian market. She was Managing Editor of the successful travel magazine, Australian Traveller in the early 1990's.
Subsequently, Diana Hannes spent time as a senior banker and credit analyst and led in the establishment of state of the art electronic banking systems for prime corporate banking customers. During her career, Diana has received professional awards and achieved recognition for her work in charity organizations. She has been in particular very involved in the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, advising the foundation on both marketing and strategic fundraising issues. Since moving to the U.S., Diana has become a major shareholder and board member of NGB Software Technologies, chaired charity fundraising events and is currently committee chairman for Harvard Business School's Global Leadership Forum to be held in Washington D.C. in June of 2006 Diana is a graduate of New South Wales University in Sydney, and holds a Degree in Arts (with majors in Economics and Psychology) and Master of Commerce in Finance and Marketing.
Dr. Thomas J. Schneider
Dr. Thomas J. Schneider is the Chairman and CEO of Schneider (Australia) Consulting and President, CEO and Founder of Restructuring Associates Inc., a consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. He is Of-Counsel to the law firm of O'Connor & Hannan in Washington, D.C. Dr. Schneider is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), and the Venter Institute.
Over the past 30 years, Dr. Schneider has advised companies of all sizes, including numerous Fortune 200 companies, on corporate strategic planning, union-management partnerships, and the design of high performance organisations. He has published and lectured around the world on high performance organisations, union-management partnerships, and biotechnology. Dr. Schneider received his A.B., magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard University, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Oxford University in industrial and organizational sociology. In 1999 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Deakin University in Australia "for the leadership in the restructuring of industrial relations in the United States of America."
