Speakers

7pm District 9705 Ambassador for Operation Cleft

 

 

 

Retired senior Australian Army officer who served as the 26th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 2014 to 2019.  A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, Cosgrove fought in the Vietnam War, receiving the Military Cross in 1971.  Personal friend of club member Bruce Osborn

Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University.  He was previously a Distinguised Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomhy and Astrophysics.  Personal friend of Club member Ray Livingstone.

ppointed Australian Statistician on 11 December 2019.  As Agency Head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, he is accountable for the functions and operations of the Bureau.  David was previously the Deputy Secretary, Economic and Australia's G20 Sherpa at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.  Before joining the Department in September 2014, he was Executive Director of the Macroeconomics Group at the Australian Treasury.  David joined the Treasury in January 2003, before which he was the Head of the Economic Research Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1998 to 2002.