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Professor John Hewson, OA is an economic and financial expert with vast experience in academia, business, government, media, the financial system and is also actively involved in many charitable organisations.
John Hewson has worked as an economist for the Australian Treasury and the Reserve Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and consulted extensively internationally and nationally to organizations, associations and financial institutions including the ADB and UNESCAP.
John Hewson's political career included seven years as a ministerial advisor and a further eight years as the Member for Wentworth in the Federal Parliament. He was Shadow Finance Minister, Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Industry and Commerce and Leader of the Liberal Party and the Federal Coalition in Opposition for four years.
With an impressive and extensive academia background Professor Hewson was Professor of Economics at UNSW for 11 years (1978-87) and Head of the School of Economics for nearly 5 years. During that time he launched Executive Programs in Financial Markets, in the US, Europe and Asia taking more than 300 executives from Australia and NZ, on 13 trips, to study in the world’s financial centres. He was also a Director of The Japanese Economic Management Studies Centre, a Research Associate and Member of the Management Committee, Centre for Applied Economic Research, and a Member, Advisory Board, Industrial Relations Research Centre and NSW Institute of Languages and was a Visiting Professor, Keio University, Japan and Institute of South East Asian Studies, Singapore. Professor Hewson was also Professor of Management and Dean, Macquarie Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University for nearly 2 1/2 years,
An accomplished writer, John Hewson has written two books on international finance and international banking, and innumerable articles on the subject in professional journals, speeches, lectures, memorial addresses and articles in newspapers and magazines.
In 2001 John Hewson was awarded the Member in the Order of Australia for service to business and economics, to the Australian Parliament and politics, and to the community.
Other activities that Mr Hewson is actively involved in includes:
Government- Consultant.
• Australian Financial System Inquiry (Campbell Committee)
• Member, Fraser Government Task Force on Final Report of The Australian Financial System Inquiry, to assess and advise on the implementation of the Report
• Member and Consultant, NSW Government’s Whitlam Committee on Offshore Banking
• Adviser to Tasmanian Government on banking, finance and related matters
• Tasmanian Representative on Treasurer Keating’s Officials Committee on Offshore Banking
• Member, Kyoto Protocol Ratification Advisory Group (formed by NSW, Victorian and South Australian Governments, 02/03)
Sporting –Member:
• Bid Team for Melbourne and Sydney Olympic bids
• Olympic Attaché- Netherlands Olympic Team Sydney 2000 Games
• Chairman, Sydney United Soccer Club
• Chairman, Investment Advisory Committee, Australian Olympic Foundation.
• Patron, Australian Corporate Games
Other-
• Chairman, National Business Leaders’ Forum on Sustainable Development (6 years)-currently on Steering Committee
• Director, The Asia-Australia Institute, UNSW
• Member, Australian Davos Connection Foundation Council
• Member, National Advisory Board of Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (AIESEC)
• Member, External Advisory Group, Group Training Australia
• Hon. Trustee, Committee of Economic Development of Australia (CEDA)
• Member, Advisory Group, Australia Worldwide, Solutions for a Sustainable Future
• Member and Signatory, The Australian Multicultural Foundation
• Chairman, Positive Ageing Foundation
• Chairman, The Leadership Foundation
• Chairman, Foundation for the New England Regional Art Museum
• Chairman, RepuTex Advisory Committee
• Chairman, Carbon Economy Task Force 2009
• Patron, Australians For Just Refugee Programs
• Director, The Southern Highlands Foundation
• International- Member, Asia-Pacific Business Forum
• Member, Eminent Persons Group on Current and Prospective Economic and Social Performance in the UNESCAP Region
• Member, UNESCAP Expert Group on Development Issues and Policies: Infrastructure Development
• The Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of the United Nations and the Executive secretary on Infrastructure Financing, UNESCAP
• Member, The Trilateral Commission
Charities:
• Chairman of Osteoporosis Australia
• Chairman of KidsXpress
• Chairman of The Arthritis Research Taskforce.
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