Professor Fred Hilmer AO

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Professor Frederick G Hilmer AO (LLB Syd, LLM Pennsylvania, MBA Wharton)

July 25, 2012

11.30am - 1.30pm

“Let’s stop pretending – a realistic vision for Australian universities”

National Gallery of AustraliaDue to renovations this event will be held at Gandel hall at the National Gallery of Australia DIRECTIONS FROM PRESS CLUB HERE
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Professor Fred Hilmer was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales on 19 June 2006. Prior to taking up this position, Professor Hilmer was Chief Executive Officer, John Fairfax Holdings Limited from 1998 - 2005. Before joining Fairfax he was Dean and Director of the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) in the University of New South Wales and a Director of Port Jackson Partners Limited. Prior to joining the AGSM, Professor Hilmer was a director of McKinsey & Company-responsible for managing the Australian practice. He holds a degree in law from the University of Sydney, an LLM from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of Finance where he was appointed a Joseph Wharton Fellow. In 1991 the Australian Institute of Management awarded him a special John Storey medal for distinguished contribution to the advancement of management thinking in Australia. Professor Hilmer was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1998 for his service to management education, competition policy, and workplace reform.

Earlier in his career Professor Hilmer was a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and he also practised law in Australia. He served on the Committee of Inquiry into Management Education during 1981 and 1982. He was a member of the Commonwealth Higher Education Council and Chairman of the Business Council of Australia's Employee Relations Study Group. In 1992 and 1993 he chaired the National Competition Policy Review Committee. He is a Director of Westfield Holdings Limited. He previously served as Chairman of Pacific Power, Deputy Chairman of Foster's Brewing Group Limited and as a Director of a number of other Australian companies. In 2010 Professor Hilmer was made a Fellow Honorary Member of CPA Australia.

He has written extensively on strategy, organisation and economic reform and is the author of a number of books, including: When The Luck Runs Out, New Games/New Rules, co-authored Strictly Boardroom, Working Relations and Management Redeemed, and, most recently, The Fairfax Experience -- What The Management Texts Didn't Teach Me.

Fred Hilmer served as Convenor of the New South Wales Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (NSWVCC) from 2009 to 2011. He was appointed Chair of the Group of Eight (Go8) in December of 2011.

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