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Committee for Melbourne appoints new Chief Executive Officer
Melbourne, 23rd December, 2009 - The Committee for Melbourne has announced today, the appointment of Mr Andrew MacLeod as its Chief Executive Officer, commencing January 2010.
In taking the role, Mr MacLeod said, “I am pleased to be joining the Committee for Melbourne. I am excited by the challenge of working with the Committee’s broad and influential membership to improve our business sector, and ensure the city’s global relevance and liveability. I look forward to using my experiences and knowledge gained in Australia and overseas. This is a wonderful opportunity to contribute back to the city which made me and to use my strengths to make a positive contribution to Melbourne.”
The Chairman of the Committee for Melbourne, Mr. George Pappas, said Mr MacLeod’s appointment is a real win for the Committee for Melbourne.
“The level of interest in the position of CEO for the Committee for Melbourne was unprecedented, with a very large number of well qualified applicants contacting us directly as well as nominations being put to us by various community leaders. Andrew was selected by a very thorough process, involving nearly all Board members, from a shortlist of highly competent candidates.” Mr Pappas said.
“We were greatly impressed by a number of Andrew’s attributes. Among them, is a demonstrated track record of being able to engage stakeholders to achieve difficult, complex and significant outcomes,” he said.
“With Andrew at the helm, the Committee has an opportunity to move up another step, just as Sally Capp helped us to do, because, like his predecessor when she took on the job, Andrew is a person who is on the rise,” he said.
Mr MacLeod has had a diverse and rewarding career, enjoying leadership roles within large and small business environments in the private and public sector. After holding positions with the Australian Army and Dunhill Madden Butler in Melbourne, he accepted a role in the International Committee at the Red Cross working in countries such as former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
In 1999, Mr MacLeod moved back to Melbourne to focus on consulting and entering politics. Andrew accepted a role from Deputy Premier John Thwaites as Senior Political and Policy Adviser and remained there for a year until January 2003. At this point, he decided that he wanted to return to his international activities and successfully applied to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva. For eight months in 2003, he held a number of positions there until October 2005 when the UN sent him to Pakistan to co-ordinate the massive earthquake relief in Kashmir. Between October 2005 and May 2008, he was based in Pakistan and, from May last year to May this year, in The Philippines, dealing with typhoon relief and recovery.
Andrew MacLeod was born in November 1966 in Melbourne. He completed his first degree at the University of Tasmania, graduating in 1992 with a double degree in Arts/Law.
Mr MacLeod is a silver medallist in 200m Butterfly at the 2002 World Masters Games, a former state medallist in surf-lifesaving, and achieved fourth place in debating at the World Championships.
Background information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_MacLeod
