Ross Garnaut - Career History

Career History

Garnaut attended the Australian National University and attained a Bachelor of Arts in 1967 and a PhD in 1972 as a student of Emeritus Professor Peter Drysdale. He has worked in the following positions:

• Senior Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Bob Hawke (1983–85)
• Australia's Ambassador to China (1985–88)
• Chairman, Primary Industry Bank of Australia Ltd (PIBA) (1989–1994)
• Chairman, Bank of Western Australia Ltd (BankWest) (1988–1995)
• First Assistant Secretary (Head of the Division of General Financial and Economic Policy), Papua New Guinea Department of Finance (1975–76)
• Research Director of the ASEAN-Australia Economic Relations Research Project (1981–83)
• Foundation Director, Asia-Pacific School of Economics and Management (1998–2000)

Garnaut is a member of the Trilateral Commission. Garnaut was Chairman of the Papua New Guinea Sustainable Development Program from 2002 to 2012, but resigned after Prime Minister Peter O'Neil's government banned Garnaut from entering Papua New Guinea due to a dispute with BHP Billiton. He was Chairman of Lihir Gold Limited from 1995 until the merger with Newcrest Mining Limited in 2010 and he was the Chairman of the International Food Policy Research Institute from 2006 to 2010.

He is married to Jayne, with sons John (born 1974 - a journalist for Fairfax Media newspapers) and Anthony (1977).