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Western Sydney meets East London North & South of the Thames Steering Committee and delegate bios W: westernsydney.org.au | A: PO Box 3201 North Parramatta NSW 1750 Australia September 2019 | Page 1 Western Sydney meets East London North & South of the Thames Study tour Steering Committee - bios Christopher Brown AM Chairman and Founder, Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue Christopher retired as Pro Chancellor of Western Sydney University after eight years as a Trustee and Director, in mid-2019. He continues to serve on the boards of the Western Sydney University Academy and External Affairs Committee. Having served on dozens of government boards over 30 years, he was a member of the Federal/State commission that chose the Badgerys Creek Airport site and then devised an advocacy campaign to secure Cabinet support. He served on the NSW Transport & Planning Blueprint Panel that first recognised Parramatta as Sydney’s second CBD and advises News Corp’s ‘Go West/Project Sydney’ editorial campaign. Christopher chaired the WestLine Partnership, which secured a light rail connection in the Olympic Corridor, and the Western Sydney Rail Alliance, which secured $5+ billion to build north/south rail connections to Badgerys Creek. He was founding Convenor of the Parramatta Partnership Forum and the Committee for Liverpool, and now manages the Canterbury-Bankstown Forum and Advance Blacktown civic leadership forums. He chairs the South Western Sydney Local Health Advisory Board and served as an adviser to the Western Sydney Parklands. Raised and educated in Parramatta, he was awarded Australian Honours for services to industry and community in 2014. Leanne Bloch-Jorgensen Head of Thought Leadership and Insights, Corporate and Institutional Bank, National Australia Bank Leanne has spent more than 25 years in the banking and finance sector, having held a variety of strategic and transactional roles in both major domestic and boutique investment banks. She joined NAB in 2010 where her roles have spanned portfolio investment, new product and channel development in Islamic finance, impact investing and infrastructure, and strategy. More recently, she has held the position of Head of Thought Leadership and Insights, delivering macro thematic and segment specific content to NAB’s Corporate and Institutional clients. The role is focussed on building customer strength, success and resilience through insight into some of the big trends and issues on the horizon. A key focus is ESG, sustainability and the creation of shared value. Prior to NAB, Leanne spent a number of years at a boutique investment bank delivering debt solutions for global wholesale and listed property funds in Australia, the US and Europe. Leanne began her career at ANZ where she joined as a Graduate after completing a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of New South Wales. During her 9 years at ANZ, she worked across the breadth of debt capital markets including loan syndications, bond origination and securitisation. Leanne’s experience includes a non-executive directorship of a non-profit organisation based in Western Sydney and an advisory committee member role of a philanthropic foundation. She currently holds a board position on a NAB subsidiary board. W: westernsydney.org.au | A: PO Box 3201 North Parramatta NSW 1750 Australia September 2019 | Page 2 Western Sydney meets East London North & South of the Thames Study tour Steering Committee - bios John Burton OBE Managing Director, Urban Regeneration, Lendlease John joined Lendlease as Managing Director, Urban Regeneration in July 2018 with over 30 years of industry experience in Australian and global real estate. In this role, he oversees Australia’s Urban Regeneration business. Renowned for its major mixed-used urbanisation projects, Lendlease has more than $13 billion worth of major urbanisation projects in four targeted gateway cities across Australia. Prior to joining Lendlease, John was Head of Development for Westfield in the UK and Europe. He has strong negotiation and delivery capability skills having managed primarily retail led mixed-use regeneration of urban precincts in and adjacent to core areas of economic activity. This includes leading the development of Westfield Stratford City, the company’s largest single development as well as its first major development in continental Europe in Milan. In 2013, John was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to urban regeneration and the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games. He was previously a director of the Australian/UK Chamber of Commerce in London. Professor Barney Glover AO Vice-Chancellor and President, Western Sydney University Professor Barney Glover AO assumed his position at Western Sydney University in January 2014. Professor Glover is currently the President of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Trust and the Australian Government representative on the University of the South Pacific Grants Committee. He is also a Board Member of the Australian American Fulbright Commission, and the Committee for Sydney, and, Member of the NSW Innovation and Productivity Council and the NSW Arts and Culture Advisory Committee. Professor Glover is an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW (FRSN), and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD). Professor Glover’s esteemed career includes significant expertise and experience at the most senior levels of university management and substantial business leadership credentials. He has also served on the boards of a range of corporate organisations and several state and national centres covering areas such as health and medical research, energy, mineral exploration, and telecommunications. W: westernsydney.org.au | A: PO Box 3201 North Parramatta NSW 1750 Australia September 2019 | Page 3 Western Sydney meets East London North & South of the Thames Study tour Steering Committee - bios Dr Sarah Hill RPIA (Fellow)* Chief Executive Officer, Greater Sydney Commission Sarah commenced as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Sydney Commission in January 2016. Following extensive engagement with the community, Sarah led the organisation in developing the Commission’s vision for ‘a metropolis of three cities’ into the Greater Sydney Region Plan and five District Plans adopted by the NSW Government in March 2018. She has prior experience in the UK working on affordable housing strategies and the creation of a new planning authority known as the London Olympic and Paralympic Joint Planning Authority responsible for the master-planning and approvals for the London 2012 Olympic Games and its Legacy. A past-President of the NSW Division of the Planning Institute of Australia, 2016-17 PIA Planner of the Year and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Sarah has received two international planning awards including the Mayor of London’s Award for Excellence and the Royal Town Planning Institute Award for Planning. Sarah is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and in 2018 completed her Doctoral thesis on the economics of planning in NSW. * Due to Parliamentary Committee duties, Sarah Hill and Jon Lamonte will not be joining the delegation in London, but have been significant contributors to the tour’s Steering Committee. Dr Jon Lamonte* Chief Executive, Sydney Metro, Transport for NSW Jon Lamonte joined Sydney Metro as Chief Executive in November 2018, relocating to Sydney from his role as CEO of Transport for Greater Manchester. His portfolio in Manchester covered rail, bus, tram, highways, cycling and other forms of active transport; in this role he was responsible for delivering the largest transport capital program outside of London, including expanding the public transport network, smart ticketing solutions and a range of new interchanges. Prior to this, Jon was the CEO of Tube Lines from 2011 – 12, where, as part of Transport for London, he was responsible for the maintenance, renewal and upgrade of the underground infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines. Jon joined from the Royal Air Force (RAF) where he fulfilled a number of senior operational roles and led major project delivery. His final role was Chief of Staff, Strategy, Policy and Plans, which included co-leading the Strategic Defence and Security Review into the maritime programme for the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Other senior roles included Director-General Finance for Defence Equipment and Support, the MoD’s £17bn a year procurement and logistics organisation, and running the RAF’s largest base, Brize Norton, with over 4,500 people and three fleets of transport and air-to-air refuelling aircraft. He served in the Falklands, Iraq and the former Yugoslavia. An active member of the Institute of Directors, Jon has strong experience in leading change, driving efficiency and motivating large workforces. He achieved a PhD in History from Birmingham University in 2011. W: westernsydney.org.au | A: PO Box 3201 North Parramatta NSW 1750 Australia September 2019 | Page 4 Western Sydney meets East London North & South of the Thames Study tour Steering Committee - bios Amanda Larkin Chief Executive Officer, South Western Sydney Local Health District Amanda Larkin leads more than 12,000 staff at the South Western Sydney Local Health District as the Chief Executive. As part