The 30% Club Australia launched in May 2015 with the primary objective of campaigning for 30 per cent women on ASX 200 boards by the end 2018. Nicola Wakefield-Evans is the Country Lead and is working closely with the Steering Committee, our Ambassador Chairs and a number of Working Groups and valued supporters from around the country in promoting the benefits of diversity at all levels of business. In March 2019 the 30% Club announced a new objective for 30 per cent women on ASX 300 boards by the end of 2021. The 30% Club will continue to focus on the boards of ASX 200 companies that have not reached the 30 per cent target.

Please click here to download a copy of the Australian 30% Club Information Booklet.

Members

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Michael Chaney AO

Wesfarmers Ltd & Past Chair of National Australia Bank Limited & Woodside Petroleum Limited
David Kirk

Kathmandu Holdings Limited & Trade Me Group Limited
John Mulcahy

Mirvac Limited
Raphael Geminder

Pact Group Holdings (Australia) Pty Limited
Jerry Maycock

Past Chair of AGL Energy Limited & Arrium Limited
Trevor Gerber

Sydney Airport Holdings Limited & Vicinity Centres RE Limited
Paul Brasher

Past Chair of Incitec Pivot Limited
John Prescott AC

Past Chair of Aurizon Holdings Limited
Craig Farrow

Past Chair of M2 Group Limited
Neil Chatfield

Costa Group Holdings Limited & Aristocrat Limited & Past Chair of SEEK Limited
Neil Hamilton

Past Chair of OZ Minerals Limited
Dr Helen Nugent AO

Past Chair of Veda Group Limited

Dr Ziggy Switkowski AO

Past Chair of Suncorp Group Limited
Brian Schwartz AM

Scentre Group & Past Chair of Insurance Australia Group Limited
David Gonski AC

ANZ Banking Group Ltd & Past Chair of Coca-Cola Amatil Limited
David Turner

Past Chair of Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Kevin McCann AM

Past Chair of Macquarie Group Limited
Gordon Cairns

Origin Energy Ltd & Woolworths Limited
Graeme Liebelt

Amcor Limited & DuluxGroup Limited
Jac Nasser AO

Past Chair of BHP Billiton Limited
John Shine

Past Chair of CSL Limited
Lindsay Maxsted

Westpac Banking Corporation & Transurban Limited
Peter Hay

Newcrest Mining Ltd & Past Chair of Vicinity Centres RE Limited
Leigh Clifford AO

Past Chair of QANTAS Airways Limited
Rick Lee AM

Oil Search Limited
Simon McKeon AO

Past Chair of AMP Limited
Catherine Livingstone AO

Commonwealth Bank of Australia & Past Chair of Telstra Corporation Limited
Diane Smith-Gander

Past Chair of Broadspectrum Limited
Margaret Jackson AC

Past Chair of Spotless Group Holdings Limited
Paula Dwyer

Healthscope Limited & Tabcorp Holdings Limited
David Crawford AO

Past Chair of Lend Lease Group & South32 Limited
Graham Kraehe AO

Past Chair of Bluescope Steel Limited
Dr Bob Every AO

Past Chair of Boral Limited & Wesfarmers Limited
Philip Clark AM

SCA Property Group Limited
Douglas Halley

Past Chair of Duet Group
Kate Spargo

UGL Limited
Leslie Hosking

Past Chair of Adelaide Brighton Limited
Andrew Forrest

Fortescue Metals Group Limited
Harvey Collins

Past Chair of Navitas Limited
David Blight

Chair of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee Japara Healthcare Limited
Geoffrey Brunsdon

Sims Metal Management Limited & APN Industria REIT
Peter Scott

Past Chair of Perpetual Limited
Rick Holliday-Smith

ASX Limited & Cochlear Limited
John O'Neill AO

The Star Entertainment Group Limited
Jim McKerlie

Drillsearch Energy Limited
Jeremy Sutcliffe

Past Chair of CSR Limited
Richard Fisher AM

Past Chair of InvoCare Limited
Jack Cowin

Domino's Pizza Enterprises Limited
Robert Wright

Past Chair of Super Retail Group Limited
Dr Roger Sexton AM

Past Chair of IOOF Holdings Limited
Richard Sheppard

DEXUS Property Group
Stephen Johns

Brambles Limited
Allan McCallum

Tassal Group Limited
Greg Martin

Iluka Resources Limited
Graham Bradley AM

GrainCorp Limited & Past Chair of Stockland Corporation Ltd
Robert Johanson

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited
David Haslingden

Past Chair of Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited
Christopher Roberts

Orora Limited
Robert Mactier

STW Communications Group Limited
Bruce Brook

Programmed Maintenance Services Limited
Mark Johnson

G8 Education
Peter Robinson

Past Chair of Australian Pharmaceuticals Industries (api) Limited
Peter Bush

Southern Cross Media Group Limited & Inghams Group Limited
Dr Kenneth Henry AC

Past Chair of National Australia Bank Limited
Geoff Tomlinson

Growthpoint Properties Australia Limited
Sir Ralph Norris

Past Chair of Fletcher Building Limited
David Clarke

Charter Hall Group
Sam Weiss

Altium Limited
Louis Carroll

Cover-More Group Limited
David Gordon

Accent Group Limited & Past Chair of Ten Network Holdings Limited
Stuart James

Greencross Limited
Simon Jones

Computershare Limited
Peter Warne

Macquarie Group Ltd & Past Chair of OzForex Ltd
Donald Taylor

Past Chair of GrainCorp Limited
Catherine Brenner

Past Chair of AMP Limited
Justin Milne

MYOB Group Limited
Greig Gailey

Past Chair of Caltex Australia Limited
Derek La Ferla

Sandfire Resources NL
Rob Ferguson

Past Chair of The GPT Group
Ian MacDonald

Genworth Mortgage Insurance Australia Limited
Dr Doug McTaggart

Spark Infrastructure Trust
Glenn Davis

Beach Energy Limited
Glenn Barnes

Past Chair of Ansell Limited
Rebecca McGrath

Oz Minerals Limited
Tracey Horton AO

Navitas Limited
Ilana Atlas

Coca-Cola Amatil Limited
John Mullen

Telstra Corporation Limited
Mike Hutchinson

Past Chair of Infigen Energy Limited
Tom Pockett

Stockland Limited
John Thame

Past Chair of Abacus Property Group
Ken MacKenzie

BHP Billiton Limited
George Venardos

Past Chair of IOOF Holdings Limited
Graeme Hunt

AGL Energy Limited
Steven Crane

nib holdings Limited (nib)
Harry Boon

Asaleo Care Limited
Bart Vogel

InvoCare Limited
Kathryn Fagg

Boral Limited
Graham Goldsmith

SEEK Limited
Allan Griffiths

IOOF Holdings Limited
Michael Coleman

Bingo Industries Limited
Christine McLoughlin

Suncorp Group Limited
Vickki McFadden

GPT Group Limited
Dr Sally Pitkin

Super Retail Group Limited
Roger Sharp

Webjet Limited
Michael Fraser

APA Group
Steven Gregg

Caltex Australia Limited
Tony Kiernan

Pilbara Minerals & Saracen Mineral Holdings Limited
Karen Wood

South32
Philippa Kelly

Lifestyle Communities Limited
Jim Hazel

Ingenia Communities Group Limited
Gina Anderson

GDI Property Group
Jacqueline Hey

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited
Steven Sargent

OFX Group Limited
Rob Campbell

SkyCity Entertainment Group Ltd

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The 30% Club is run by a Steering Committee that is made up of senior men and women who volunteer their time and skills.

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Nicola Wakefield Evans

Chair 30% Club Australia

Lend Lease
Patricia Cross

Macquarie Group Limited
Jillian Segal AM

The Observerships Program
Cathy Walter AM

Australian Foundation Investment Company Limited
Susan Oliver

Simonds Homes Ltd
Carmel Mortell

KPMG
Elizabeth Shaw

KPMG
Melanie Willis

Non Executive Director
Jane Neale

HattonNeale
Rhian Richardson

Executive 30% Club Australia

AICD
Susan Roberts
Carolyn Kay

Non Executive Director

Catriona Noble

ANZ

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Executive Search

Main aims

The executive search group is focused on how executive search consultants (ESCs) can promote emerging and current female directors and develop the systems, practices and processes that enable women to be appointed to boards. Individual members ensure diverse candidates are included on the long and shortlists provided to the chairs of the board and remuneration and nominations committees. The group is also committed to working with chairs and boards on succession planning and developing their network of female board aspirants.

Please read our 2019 publication: Recruiting for Success: Diversity in the Boardroom.

contact

Jane Neale
Investors

Main aims

The purpose of the Investors Group is to help coordinate the investment community’s approach to gender diversity. In particular, to explain the investment case for more diverse boards; to encourage all investors to engage on the issue of board diversity with chairs and management teams and to consider diversity when voting on the Report & Accounts and the appointment and re-election of board members.

Whilst we are strongly supportive of voluntary targets over quotas, we believe that it is important that investors actively oversee companies’ actions. We encourage investors to engage directly with companies in the first instance. However, we believe that, over time, this should extend to AGM voting in the event of inadequate board leadership.

We are calling for the investment community to follow the principles of the statement of intent and to use to investor toolkit in their conversations with Boards and CEOs.

1. Statement of Intent for Investors: which outlines the beliefs and objectives that the members of the 30% Club Investors Working Group have agreed to. We invite other fund managers and asset owners to pledge support to the principles in this Statement;

2. Investor toolkit for engaging board on diversity: this toolkit has been provided to help investors, and those representing them, more effectively engage with boards of directors on this important issue.

2018 Investor Annual Report: An update on the activities of 10 of the investors signed up to our Statement of Intent.

contact

susan.roberts1970@icloud.com

Susan Roberts
Education
Main aims

The aim of the education working group is to influence and support ASX 200 chairs and non-executive directors through:
- the provision of resources that present the business case for board diversity,
- highlighting board practices that promote and misguided thinking that acts as a barrier to increasing the number of women on boards, and
- recommending ways of improving the rate of appointment of female directors.
Please read our latest publication: The Next Generation: Pathways to ASX 200 board roles of the 2018 appointees

Please read our 2018 publication: Shaping the boards of the future: Succession planning, board evaluations and term limits

Please read our 2017 publication: Leading by Example: Insights on board diversity from ASX 200 chairs that have 30 per cent women on their boards.

Please read our 2016 publication: Barriers to Progression: The reasons Chairs and Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) use as to why they can't or won't appoint female directors to their boards.

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melaniew@bigpond.net.au
Melanie Willis
Chair's Liaison

Main aims

Members of the Chair’s liaison group actively engage with ASX 200 chairs to increase the number of women on their boards. They seek to positively influence the chairs by promoting the benefits of board diversity and the actions and ownership chairs’ need to take to ensure the successful appointment of female directors.

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Investment Banking & Private Equity
Main aims

The Investment Banking & Private Equity (IB&PE) group are focused on having an impact in ensuring female representation in the IPO space and on ASX boards generally, particularly in the following areas:
- Creating an appetite within the investment banking, private equity and professional services community for listing boards with at least one independent female non-executive director (i.e. not the founder/s and investors);
- Working with the Executive Search working group to identify emerging female directors and creating networks linked to the investment banking, private equity and professional services communities for these directors;
- Working with the Investor working group on approaching boards with low female director representation to advocate for change;
- Advising clients and people within investment banking, private equity and professional services organisations on their commitment to ensuring at least 30% female directors on the boards of the listed companies they are connected with.
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Carolyn Kay

20 May 2019
New Target Launch

Herbert Smith Freehills: Level 42, 101 Collins Street Melbourne

The Australian chapter of the 30% Club is celebrating the significant progress that has been made during the past three years towards the achievement of the 30 per cent target. Although the target of 30 per cent female directors on ASX 200 boards was not reached by the end of 2018, we are within reach.

The 30% Club Australian chapter are launching a new target of 30 per cent female directors on ASX 300 boards by the end of 2021. There are currently 19.7% female directors on ASX 201-300 boards, so committed effort is required to achieve the target.

Panellists at the event will discuss the ASX 300 target, the establishment of a new Investment Banking & Private Equity working group, the stakeholders that need to be engaged in this space and the successes of the ASX 200 campaign.

Please email Rhian Richardson at rrichardson@aicd.com.au to enquire about attending the event.

Contact

The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) is coordinating the Working Groups of the 30% Club and answering enquiries. Please contact the Board Diversity Executive, Melissa Powell at: mpowell@aicd.com.au

For media enquiries please contact Simrita Virk, Shed Media, at simrita.virk@shedconnect.com

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Australia

Executive Search

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Jane Neale

Investors

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Susan Roberts

Education

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Melanie Willis

Chair's Liaison

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Investment Banking & Private Equity

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Carolyn Kay

New Target Launch