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REGIONS RISING NATIONAL SUMMIT SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Conference – Wednesday 17 March 2021 REGIONS RISING NATIONAL SUMMIT SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Conference – Wednesday 17 March 2021 Dominique As a foreign correspondent for the ABC, Dominique reported from Schwartz more than fifty countries across the globe and was also a primetime TV Associate news presenter and radio current affairs host. Director Communications, Most recently Dominique was the ABC’s national rural and regional Regional correspondent, and she’s delighted that with RAI, she can continue to Australia Institute fight for, and be inspired by, the people and places of regional Master of Australia. Ceremonies Liz Ritchie As the CEO of RAI, Liz’s primary goal is to make a difference through CEO, providing leadership, engagement, and evidence-based knowledge to Regional shape a better Australia. Heralding from country NSW, she Australia Institute understands the issues and opportunities impacting regional Australia and she is dedicated to reforming our regional economies so that more Australians can choose to live, work, and invest in regional Australia. Dr Kim Kim leads the think tank’s policy and research work. He was previously Houghton the Institute’s General Manager Policy and Research, and in both these Chief Economist, roles works to ensure the Institute’s work has practical application that Regional supports a better policy environment and more vibrant regional Australia Institute economies. Having worked on regional economic development in Australia for almost 20 years, Kim has a passion for engaging, motivating, informing, and connecting regional leaders from business, community, and government. The Hon Michael Michael McCormack has lived and worked in the Riverina region all of McCormack MP his life. He was elected as The Nationals’ Member for Riverina in 2010 Deputy Prime and has held the roles of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Minister; Minister Finance, Assistant Minister to Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, for Infrastructure, Assistant Minister for Defence, Minister for Small Business, Minister for Transport and Veterans' Affairs and Defence Personnel and in February 2018 Regional Michael was elected the 14th Leader of The Nationals and was sworn Development in as Australia's 18th Deputy Prime Minister as well as the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development. Prior to entering Parliament, Michael began his professional life as a cadet journalist with The Daily Advertiser newspaper in Wagga Wagga in 1981. He became editor of The Daily Advertiser at the age of 27, making him the youngest person appointed to edit a daily newspaper in Australia at the time. Michael later co-founded a media and publishing small business in Wagga Wagga, which he owned and operated in partnership until he was elected to Parliament. Michael is also a keen sportsman with interests in horse racing, Australian football, Rugby League and cricket, a sport which he still regularly plays – MP commitments permitting – with Wagga Wagga’s St Michael’s Cricket Club. REGIONSRISING.REGIONALAUSTRALIA.ORG.AU The Hon Mark As Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the National Vaile AO Party from 2005 to 2007, Mark established an extensive network of Board Member, contacts throughout Australia and East Asia. His focus at home was with Regional regional Australia and particularly northern NSW. As one of Australia’s Australia Institute longest serving Trade Ministers from 1999 through until 2006, Mark led negotiations which resulted in Free Trade Agreements being concluded with the United States of America, Singapore and Thailand as well as launching negotiations with China, Japan and ASEAN. Importantly, early in his Ministerial career as the Minister for Transport and Regional Services, Mark was instrumental in the establishment of the ARTC which operates the Hunter Valley rail network. Mark brings significant experience as a company director having been Chairman of Aston Resources, CBD Energy Limited and SmartTrans Limited and a former independent Director on the board of Virgin Australia Holdings Limited. Mark is currently a Director of ServCorp Limited which is listed on the ASX (since June 2011), Stamford Land Corp which is listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, a Director Trustee of HostPlus Superfund and Chairman of Palisade Regional Infrastructure Fund. Saul Eslake I went to school in Smithton (in the far north-west of Tasmania) and Economist Hobart, and subsequently gained a First Class Honours degree in Economics from the University of Tasmania. I began my professional career in 1979 at the Australian Treasury in Canberra. In mid-1984 I secured my first position as an economist in the Australian financial markets, with an investment banking joint venture between the National Australia Bank and the Australian subsidiary of Chase Manhattan Bank. In 2009 I joined a then newly-established ‘think tank’, the Grattan Institute, in a part-time role as Director of its Productivity Growth Program, whilst also seeing if it was possible to earn a reasonable living as an independent economist, writing and speaking about a range of contemporary economic issues. I returned to the financial markets towards the end of 2011 as Chief Economist (Australia & New Zealand) for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, one of the world’s largest investment banks. Having fulfilled a long-held ambition of returning to live in Tasmania at the end of 2014, six months later I resigned from that role to re-establish my own business, Corinna Economic Advisory Pty Ltd. In addition to running that business, since April 2016 I’ve had a part-time role as a Vice- Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Tasmania. John O’Duinn John O’Duinn is a Senior Strategist at CivicActions, an agile design and Senior Strategist, software firm with 100+ employees and no office since its founding in CivicActions 2004. John has written code and led engineering teams in companies <Virtual> ranging from four person startups, to non-profits, to multinationals – including in the US Government as part of the U.S. Digital Service in the Obama White House. John has worked in various kinds of distributed companies for 28 years, led distributed teams for 14 years, and provided workshops and mentorship on remote work best practices for 7 years. John is the author of “Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart” – a business management book on the essential practical mechanics of how to work in and run distributed organizations, as well as the wider diversity, environmental, urban planning and community renewal benefits of distributed REGIONSRISING.REGIONALAUSTRALIA.ORG.AU organizations. In the US, he also helped write the State of Vermont’s “Remote Worker” law – a very different approach to Economic Development which was so wildly successful that he is helping draft bills and write policies for multiple other jurisdictions worldwide. Since August 2019, John has been advising California's Dept of General Services on various aspects of effective long-term telework. Gavin Williams Mr Williams was appointed to the Chief Development Officer Regional Chief & Remote in October 2019, bringing more than five years’ experience Development at NBN Co and 25 years within the telecommunication industry across Officer, Regional Australia. and Remote, NBN Co He has held leadership roles that have spanned engineering, product management, marketing and strategy disciplines across consumer, business and wholesale markets. Prior to joining NBN Co, Gavin held positions in Optus, Telstra and was principal of an independent consultancy. He was a Board Director of Southern Cross Cable. Sean McGoldrick Seán is a senior executive in the utility industry, having served at Executive managerial and board level for energy organisations worldwide. He Manager, Major joined the TransGrid Executive Team in 2019 and oversees the Projects, delivery of several major projects across NSW and the ACT. In TransGrid February 2020, Seán also became Acting Executive Manager, Network Planning and Operations, with responsibility for asset management and investment strategies, asset performance, environmental approvals, non-network solutions and system operations. Seán was previously Executive Manager of Asset Management at Western Power, where he was responsible for a $10.2 billion asset. With more than 30 years’ experience working on electrical power systems globally, Seán has acted as consultant on many EU, World Bank and EBRD funded projects. Victoria Victoria heads up the Intergenerational Report (IGR) and Population Anderson, First Division at the Australian Treasury. The division is responsible for the Assistant Government’s Centre for Population and delivery of the next IGR in Secretary, IGR mid-2021. and Population Division, The The Centre for Population was established in 2019 and is the primary Treasury location for population-related issues within the Australian Government. The Centre is working closely with the states and territories, academics and think tanks in order to share data, research, ideas and build expertise on population. The Centre’s analysis, forecasts and projections cover the main elements of population change – net overseas migration, natural increase and at the domestic level, net internal migration. Victoria’s division is also responsible for the IGR. Every five years, the Australian Government produces an IGR that assesses the long-term sustainability of current Government policies and how changes to Australia’s population size and age profile may impact on economic
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