Mark Johnson
Chairman of the Australian Financial Centre Task Force
Mark is Chairman of the Australian Financial Centre Task Force, an Australian Government initiative directed towards ensuring efficiency and competitiveness in the financial services sector. He has been one of the three Australian representatives on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) since 2002 where he is Chair of the Advisory Group on Financial System Capacity Building.
He is Chairman of Alinta Energy, a Director of Westfield Group and Senior Adviser to Gresham Partners and to Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFG in Australia. He has spent more than forty years in banking and corporate finance and retired as Deputy Chairman of Macquarie Bank in 2007 and as Chairman of Macquarie Infrastructure Group in 2010. He has recently retired as Chairman of AGL Energy and Guinness Peat Group.
He is Chairman of the ASIC External Advisory Panel. He was Chairman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute from 2005 to 2008, and Chairman of ABAC and the APEC Business Summit in Sydney in 2007 and a member of the Chairman’s Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors from 2008-2011. He is a Life Governor of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.
Other current affiliations include: Chairman of the US Study Centre Foundation at Sydney University, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the APEC Study Centre at RMIT University, member of the Board of Governors of the Institute for International Trade at the University of Adelaide, and a member of the Advisory Council of SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong.
He was awarded the Order of Australia (AO) in 2010, and the Order of the Crown (Tonga) in 2008.
