Deputy Chairman
Residence: Canberra, ACT.
Term of Office: Deputy Chairman since December 2007. Director since March 2006.
Current Directorships of other Community CPS Australia Limited related entities: Director of Community CPS Foundation Limited
Current Directorships of non Community CPS Australia Limited related entities: Chairman of Australian Health Management Group Limited; Director of Centre for Customs and Excise Studies Limited; Director of Grinston Pty Limited.
Skills, experience and expertise: Chris is a company director and barrister. He was formerly Chief Executive and Principal Registrar of the High Court of Australia and Secretary of the Council of Chief Justices of Australia and New Zealand. He previously occupied various positions in both the public and private sectors. In the private sector, he was the Managing Partner and Senior Commercial Partner of a prominent law firm and occupied a number of advisory positions in finance, education and health. His previous public sector positions included Deputy Comptroller - General of Customs, Deputy Chief of the Export Inspection Service, Director of Investigations for the Commonwealth Ombudsman and Chairman of Law Courts Limited (a company owned by the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of New South Wales).
Prior to joining the Board, Chris was a Director of CPS Credit Union Co-operative (ACT) Limited and Chairman of that credit union's former Governance Committee and Operations Committee. He has degrees in Administration and Law (Honours), is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a Fellow of the Australasian Mutuals Institute, a past Defence Fellow (as which he wrote a textbook on administrative law) and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Canberra.
Community CPS Australia Limited Board Committee Membership: Chairman of the Board Governance Committee.
Other interests: Over many years, Chris occupied several professional and voluntary community positions including having been Vice President of the Australian Institute of Management, a member of the Board of Management for two hospitals and a member of a charity Board fund-raising for medical research.
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