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
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 & Past Chair of DuluxGroup Limited
Jac Nasser AO
Past Chair of BHP Billiton Limited
John Shine
Past Chair of CSL Limited
Lindsay Maxsted
Past Chair of 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
Tabcorp Holdings Limited and Past Chair of Healthscope 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
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
Past Chair of Brambles Limited
Allan McCallum
Tassal Group Limited
Greg Martin
Iluka Resources Limited
Graham Bradley AM
Past Chair of GrainCorp Limited & Stockland Corporation Ltd
Robert Johanson
Past Chair of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited
David Haslingden
Past Chair of Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited
Christopher Roberts
Past Chair of 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
Ampol 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
Tony D’Aloisio
Perpetual Limited
Tim Poole
Aurizon
Garry Charny
Centuria
William Hames
Cedar Woods
Steering Committee
The 30% Club is run by a Steering Committee that is made up of senior men and women who volunteer their time and skills.
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
Juliet Bourke
Adjunct Professor
Jane Neale
HattonNeale
Susan Roberts
Carolyn Kay
Non Executive Director
Catriona Noble
ANZ
Joanne Gilroy
Executive 30% Club Australia
AICD
Working groups
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.
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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.
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The mission of the 30% Club Education Committee is to support the Global 30% Club’s mission of “at least 30% representation of all women on all boards and C-Suite globally” by generating, amplifying and disseminating credible and aligned research.
The Education Working Group has driven a number of research projects to drive the gender diversity conversation. These include:
Barriers to progression – Chair and NED reasons for not appointing female directors (2016)
Leading by Example - Interviews with ASX 200 Chairs with 30% females on their boards (2017)
Shaping the boards of the future: Succession planning, board evaluations and term limits (2018)
The Next Generation: Pathways ASX 200 board roles of the 2019 appointments (2018)
Building gender diversity on ASX 300 boards: Seven learnings from the ASX 200 on how to build greater gender diversity on boards (2020)
contact
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:
contact
carolyn@schk.com.au
Events
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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 Manager, Joanne Gilroy at: jgilroy@aicd.com.au
For media enquiries please contact Simrita Virk, Shed Media, at simrita.virk@shedconnect.com