Bhoocha-Oom Areepong, Deputy Director, General Electricity Generating Company, Thailand

Peter Batchelor, MP Minister for Transport Government of Victoria

Amy Auster, Tasman Asia Pacific

Mark Baird, Team Leader ADB-JBIC-World Bank East Asia and Pacific Infrastructure Study
After a brief spell in the New Zealand Treasury, Mark joined the World Bank as a Young Professional in 1974. He has worked as a country economist for India, Tanzania, Uganda and Indonesia, including two resident assignments in New Delhi (1976-79) and Jakarta (1986-89). In 1989 Mark took two years leave from the World Bank to work as Economic Advisor to the New Zealand Treasury.
Returning to the Bank in 1991, he was appointed as Division Chief for Country Policy, Industry and Finance in the Operations Evaluation Department and was promoted as Director of Development Policy in 1993 and Vice President of Strategy and Resource Management in 1997.
Mark was appointed as the World Bank’s Country Director for Indonesia in April 1999. He lived in Jakarta through September 2002, when he retired from the World Bank. He continues to work as an economic consultant on development policy issues, and is currently leading the ADB-JBIC-World Bank study on infrastructure in East Asia and the Pacific. Mark holds a Master of Arts Degree (First Class Honours) from the University of Canterbury.

Jim Betts, Deputy Director, PTD, DOI Government of Victoria

Mick Bourke, CEO & Chairman, Environmental Protection Agency

Shane Breheny, CEO, Powercor

Lachlan Bruce, Director, Infrastructure and Development, DIIRD Government of Victoria

John Brumby, MP Treasurer, Minister for Innovation, Minister for State & Regional Development Government of Victoria

Satish Chand Fellow, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government Australia National University

Peter Cullen
Professor Peter Cullen, AO, FTSE is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Canberra and was the former Chief Executive Officer of the Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology. He is a Director of Landcare Australia, Land and Water Australia and the CRC for Irrigation Futures. He is a member of the Natural Heritage Trust Advisory Council, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Lake Eyre Basin Ministerial Forum and Deputy Chair, Science & Information Board, NSW Department of Planning, Infrastructure and Natural Resources.


Bruce Davis, Director General, AusAID

Christian Delvoie, Director, Infrastructure Unit, EAP World Bank

David Downie, Partner, Deacons

Kim Edwards, CEO, Transurban

John Feil, Executive Director, National Competition Council

Alan Fels, Dean, Australian New Zealand School of Government

John Fitzgerald, Partnerships Victoria, Government of Victoria

Jim Gallaugher

Hubert Guyot, CEO, Yarra City Trams

David Hawes, Project Leader, TAMF III, AusAID AusAID

Tim Holding, MP Minister for Manufacturing and Export and Minister for Financial Services Industry, Victoria Government of Victoria

Tony Kelly, Managing Director, Yarra Valley Water

Grant King, CEO, Origin Energy

Martin Locke, Director, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Charlie Macauley, General Manager Development and Strategy, NEMMCO

Rohan Madders, Partner, Freehills

Ian McCubbin, Partner, Deacons

Jim McMeckan Executive Director (past), Public Franchise Review, Victoria Government of Victoria

Chloe Munro, Director, Telstra

Brad Page, Executive Director, ESAA

Thakoor Persaud, Country Sector Coordinator and Lead Infrastructure Specialist, World Bank
Thakoor Persaud is the Country Sector Coordinator and Lead Infrastructure Specialist in the Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea & Pacific Islands Division of the East Asia Region of the World Bank. He is currently based in the Bank's Sydney office and has worked in several sectors and regions in the Bank in a wide variety of tasks including tourism, housing, urban development, emergency and disaster reconstruction, municipal finance and urban transport projects. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Texas Tech University.

Michael Porter, Chairman, Tasman Asia Pacific

Chalermchai Ratnarak, President, EGCO (Thailand)

Graeme Samual, Chairman, ACCC

Alf Smith, Deputy Secretary, DOI, Government of Victoria

Michael Sonnenberg, Consultant, Freehills

Alan Stockdale, Global Head Investor and External Relations, Macquarie Bank Ltd

John Tamblyn, Chairman, Essential Services Commission

Rod Touzel, Director, Business Review Weekly

James Van Smeerdijk, CEO, The Allen Consulting Group

Ed Willett, Commissioner, ACCC

Xian Zhu, County Director, World Bank
Xian Zhu, a Chinese national, has been the World Bank Country Director for the Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands Country Management Unit based in Sydney, Australia since November 2002. During the 1980s, Mr. Zhu worked for the Ministry of Finance in Beijing, China. He was appointed as the Advisor to the Executive Director for China at the World Bank in Washington in 1989. In 1992, Mr. Zhu returned to Beijing and worked in the World Bank Department of the Ministry of Finance. In 1996, he became the Acting Director of the World Bank Department and in 1998 was promoted to Director General of the International Department in the Ministry of Finance.
In 1999, Mr. Zhu took over the role as Executive Director for China at the World Bank in Washington. After serving his term as Executive Director, Mr. Zhu worked for the Asian Development Bank from 2001 to 2002 in the Infrastructure, Energy & Financial Sector Department followed by the Office of Cofinancing Operations. In late 2002, Mr. Zhu re-joined the World Bank. Mr. Zhu has studied Western languages and literature as well as economics in China and the US.



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