Governance
In 1984, the New South Wales Parliament passed the Garvan Institute of Medical Research Act that incorporated Garvan as an autonomous, non-profit research institute. Garvan's affairs are overseen by two Boards of Directors: the Garvan Institute and the Garvan Research Foundation Boards
The Garvan Institute Board is empowered to determine policy and control the affairs of the Institute as laid down in the NSW Parliament Garvan Institute of Medical Research Act 1984. The Board approves and supervises the delegation of authority to committees. Garvan’s Board meets quarterly and comprises 15 members, nominated by Garvan's various stakeholders and appointed by the Governor of New South Wales and the Executive Director of the Institute, who is also appointed by the Board.
The Garvan Research Foundation Board was established in 1981 to assist and support the newly-formed Garvan Research Foundation. The Foundation provides the Institute with an additional source of research funds by attracting financial support from companies and individuals. Over the years, the Foundation has evolved to become Garvan's marketing and fundraising arm. The Garvan Research Foundation Board is subject to the ultimate direction of the Garvan Institute Board.
Mr Nicholas Curtis has a background in investment
banking and the resources industry. He is Executive Chairman of Lynas
Corporation Limited, an Australian public company specialising in Rare
Earths. Mr Curtis served as Chairman of the Board of St Vincents &
Mater Health Sydney from August 2004 to October 2009 and is a Director
of St Vincent's Health Australia Ltd and St Vincent's Healthcare
Ltd.
Mr Geoff Dixon held the position of Managing
Director and Chief Executive of Qantas Airways Limited from 2000-2008.
After joining Qantas in 1994 he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive in
1998 and then to the Board of Directors in 2000.
Professor John Horvath was the Australian
Government Chief Medical Officer from 2003- 2009. He is currently
continuing to advise the Department of Health & Ageing and the
School of Medicine, University of Sydney, and holds the position of
Honorary Professor of Medicine. Professor Horvath is currently a member
of Council of the NHMRC and Chairman of the Healthcare Committee. He is
a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and is a
distinguished practitioner, researcher and teacher. Professor Horvath
was previously Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Sydney
and a specialist renal physician at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
(RPAH), and Area Director of Renal Services for the RPAH and Concord
Repatriation General Hospitals. He is also known as a leader in a range
of medical training and workforce organisations. He is also a former
President of the Australian Medical Council and the NSW Medical
Board.
Ms Anne Keating is a company director and holds
board positions in a range of industries including advertising,
banking, and property. She is on the boards of the Goodman Group
Limited, Ardent Leisure Group Limited and STW Communications Group
Limited. Ms Keating is also a member of the Advisory Council of RBS
Group (Australia), Governor of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and
Trustee of the Centennial Parklands and Moore Park Trust. Her former
boards include Insurance Australia Group Limited, NRMA Limited, the
WorkCover Authority of NSW, the Tourism Task Force and was an inaugural
Director at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. Ms Keating was
the General Manager, Australia for United Airlines from
1993-2001.
Dr Lisa McIntyre is a partner with the strategy
consulting firm LEK Consulting and head of LEK's Asia Pacific Life
Sciences and Health Care practice. She has over 18 years consulting
experience for the biotechnology and healthcare sector and has worked
with over 100 different biotechnology and life sciences and healthcare
clients. Dr McIntyre relocated to Sydney in 2002 after nine years in
the United States co-heading LEK's Life Sciences practice where she
advised many of the world's leading biotechnology and speciality
pharmaceutical companies.
Mr Greg Paramor is a founding Partner of Equity
Real Estate Partners. Greg has been involved in the real estate and
funds management industry for more than 35 years, and was the
co-founder of Growth Equities Mutual, Paladin Australia and the James
Fielding Group. Greg was the CEO of Mirvac between 2004 and 2008. Greg
is a past President of the Property Council of Australia and past
President of Investment Funds Association, a Fellow of the Australian
Property Institute and The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Greg
is a director of a number of not-for-profit organisations and is also a
board member of the Sydney Swans and LJ Hooker.
Annette attended St Vincent’s College Potts
Point before becoming a Sister of Charity. She completed a BSc
(UNSW), Diploma of Education (UNE), Master of Education (Hons) (UNSW)
and PhD (Griffith), meanwhile teaching in Secondary Colleges in various
States, then holding the position of Senior Lecturer at Australian
Catholic University. From 1996 to 2002 and since 2002 Annette has
been Leader of the Sisters of Charity of Australia. She has held
the positions of President of CLRI (NSW) and Inaugural Chair of the
Stewardship Board of Catholic Health Australia and served on a number
of incorporated Boards.
Steven Rubic was appointed CEO of St Vincents &
Mater Health Sydney (SV&MHS) in April 2008. Prior to this he was
Executive Director of St Vincent's Private Hospital a position he held
since 1997. He is currently a Board Member of SV&MHS, the Health
Industry (Superannuation) Plan, the Garvan Research Foundation, a
member of Australian Commission on Safety and Quality Health Care
(Private Hospital Sector Committee) and is a past Chairman of the NSW
Private Hospitals Association. He has completed an MBA and is a Fellow
of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Mr Warren Scott is the General Counsel of the
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and a former Director and
the General Counsel of Citigroup in Australia. He was formerly the
Chairman of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, as well as a
delegate to the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. He is a member
of the Law Society of New South Wales, the American Bar Association,
the New York Bar Association and the California Bar Association. Warren
is admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales and as a lawyer in New
York and California.
Ms Jillian Segal is a Director of the National
Australia Bank and the Australian Securities Exchange Limited. She is
also Deputy Chancellor of the UNSW and involved with a number of other
community not-for-profit organisations, including the General Sir John
Monash Foundation. Ms Segal has had a career in law, regulation,
governance and policy development. Formally she was President of the
Administrative Review Council and Chair of the Banking and Financial
Services Ombudsman Board. From 1997-2002, Ms Segal was a Commissioner
of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), being
Deputy Chair from 2000-2002. Prior to joining ASIC, Ms Segal was a
corporate lawyer specialising in corporate and environmental law,
having been a partner at Allen Allen & Hemsley.
Professor John Shine is Executive Director of the
Garvan Institute of Medical Research and a board member of the Garvan
Research Foundation. He is Professor of Molecular Biology and Professor
of Medicine at the UNSW, and a director of many scientific, research
and medical bodies throughout Australia, including the recent ex-
Chairman of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
and until 2006 a member of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering
& Innovation Council (PMSEIC).
Professor Peter Smith is Dean, Faculty of Medicine,
UNSW. He specialised in cancer medicine and research following study in
Australia, USA and Germany. He has held senior hospital management
posts in Brisbane and Melbourne, and senior academic appointments at
the Universities of Queensland, Melbourne and Auckland. He has served
in a consulting role to Government, including as Chairman of the recent
Inquiry into Vietnam Veterans Cancer Incidence and Mortality. Professor
Smith is currently a Director of SV&MHS, NewSouth Innovations, and
a number of other research centres and institutes.
Associate Professor Bernadette Tobin is
Director of the Plunkett Centre for Ethics at St Vincent's Hospital,
Sydney, and Reader in Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University.
Dr Tobin is Honorary Ethicist at the Children's Hospital at Westmead,
Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the
University of Sydney, and Conjoint Associate Professor in the School of
Medicine at UNSW. She served for three triennia on the Australian
Health Ethics Committee, a principal committee of the NHMRC. She also
chaired the drafting group, which prepared the first Code of Ethics for
Catholic Health and Aged Care Services in Australia.
Ms Jane Allen is a Partner in Egon Zehnder
International's (EZI) Sydney office, where she focuses on chief
executive officer and board appointments. Ms Allen has been at Egon
Zehnder International for 10 years and has consulted with corporate
boards and companies of all sizes. In addition to a number of speaking
engagements, Ms Allen has had a number of articles published on CEO
Succession and diversity at the executive and board level. In addition,
she currently leads a number of global strategy initiatives roles for
one of the firm's core client practices. Previously she has been
Managing Partner of the Sydney office and co-leader of the Australian
Practice as well as Head of the Consumer Products Practice Group for
Asia Pacific. She is currently a member of Chief Executive Women, a
small active network of Australia's top women leaders. Prior to joining
Egon Zehnder International she worked at Procter & Gamble in sales
and then marketing in both the US and Australia. Ms Allen has an MBA
from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College.
Ms Allen joined the Foundation Board in 2007.
Ms Melinda Conrad is a consultant and company
director for a range of business, health, and community organisations.
In addition to the Garvan, she serves as a non-executive director for
the Australia New Zealand Breast Cancer Trial Group and the Australian
Brandenburg Orchestra. Ms Conrad has extensive experience in strategy,
marketing and business development. In her previous executive career,
she founded and ran the retail store chain, Conrads Warehouse, and held
management roles at Harvard Business School and Colgate-Palmolive. Ms
Conrad joined the Foundation Board in September 2003.
Mr Gabriel Farago is a company director and
consultant advising corporations on litigation management. Prior to
establishing his consultancy, he practised as a solicitor and barrister
for over 30 years, specialising in commercial disputes both in
Australia and overseas. Mr Farago has extensive business interests, and
has been involved in property development for more than 20 years. A
passion for philanthropic and charitable causes also reaches back many
years, and in 1984 he was made a member of the Knightly Order of Vitez.
Mr Farago joined the Foundation Board in 2008.
Ms Lyn Gearing was appointed to the Foundation
Board as a representative of the Sisters of Charity. Ms Gearing was a
Director of Stockland Corporation Limited up until December 2008 and is
currently a Director of Queensland Investment Corporation Limited,
Hancock Natural Resource Group Australasia Pty Limited, IMB Limited and
two other not for profit organisations. Ms Gearing was the Chief
Executive Officer of the NSW State Superannuation schemes from
1997-2002, and has substantial experience in superannuation, funds
management, corporate finance and management consulting. Ms Gearing
joined the Foundation Board in 2005.
Mr Loftus Harris is a non-executive director
on various boards in NSW, Victoria and Queensland, a national chairman
of the Australian Institute of Export, and holds the appointment of
Special Trade Representative to the Middle East and India for the
Queensland Government. He previously held chief executive positions in
the NSW and Queensland public sectors with responsibility for
whole-of-Government activities including international trade,
investment, innovation, business, and regional development. He also
served extensively overseas as an Australian Trade Commissioner. Mr
Harris joined the Foundation Board in 2008.
Mr John Landerer is a Solicitor specialising
in corporate advisory work and is also a professional company director.
He is currently Chairman of Goldsearch Limited and other private
companies. He has served as Chairman of the Home Purchase
Assistance Authority and is on the Board of Life Education Australia
and the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children as well as on the
Boards of various charitable institutions. Mr Landerer was appointed a
Visiting Professor at Macquarie University in Business and Commercial
Law and holds an honorary doctorate from that University.
Mr Simon Mordant is a co-founder and joint chief
executive of Caliburn Partnership, a leading independent corporate
advisory firm specialising in advising major corporates on their merger
and acquisition and capital markets strategies. He is a chartered
accountant and is Chair of the Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation
and a director of the Sydney Theatre Company. Mr Mordant joined the
Foundation Board in 2009.
Sister Paulina has a broad
background in health policy formation, having been a member of the
Hospitals and Health Services Commission (Sax Commission) and Assistant
Director General, Nursing Branch, Federal Department of Health. Sister
Paulina resigned from the Garvan Institute Board in February 2000 and
has been a member of the Foundation Board since 1994. 
Mr Brad Rees is involved in a number of charitable,
arts and educational interests and is a director of a private
investment company. Until 2007, he was a Managing Director and Equity
Partner of the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs JBWere. Mr Rees
was with the firm for 23 years and worked in the Melbourne, Sydney and
London offices providing financial and investment banking advice to
corporations and governments in Australia and overseas. Mr Rees joined
the Foundation Board in 2008.
Mr Karim Temsamani manages Google's domestic
business and strategic partnerships in Australia and New Zealand. Karim
joined Google from Fairfax Media, where he was most recently Group
Director, Fairfax General Magazines (responsible for growing the
profile and advertising revenue of Fairfax's suite of inserted
magazines) and Commercial Director for Newspapers (responsible for
agency and group sales, trade marketing and business development).
Prior to this he was the publisher and Vice President of Who Weekly at
Time Inc South Pacific from 1999-2002. He has previously served in a
variety of senior capacities with Hachette, including the positions of
Regional Business Publisher in Hong Kong (1995-96), Associate Publisher
for Korea in Seoul (1996-97), and Managing Director for Hachette in
Sydney (1997-99). Mr Temsamani joined the Foundation Board in 2008.