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Graeme Samuel commenced as head of the
Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission (ACCC) in July 2003. He is also an associate member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Prior to taking up his appointment at the ACCC, he was
president of the National Competition Council, chairman of the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust, a commissioner of the Australian Football League, a member of the Board of the Docklands Authority and a director of Thakral Holdings Limited.
Mr Samuel is past president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a past chairman of Playbox Theatre Company and Opera Australia, a former trustee of the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust and former chairman of the Inner and Eastern Health Care Network.
Until the early 1990s, Mr Samuel pursued a professional career in law and investment banking. He was a partner of the law firm Phillips Fox & Masel from 1972 to 1980, executive director of Hill Samuel Australia Limited (and subsequently Macquarie Bank Limited) from 1981 to 1986 and co-founder of corporate advisors Grant Samuel & Associates in 1988.
In 1995, he was elected a life member of the Australian Football League. In 1998, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia "for service to the community within arts, business, education, health, sport and community organisations".
In 2000, Mr Samuel was awarded an Australian Sports Medal for services to sport. In the same year, he was appointed an honorary fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In 2003, he received a Centenary Medal in recognition of his service as president of the National Competition Council. In the same year, he was appointed an honorary life trustee of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.
Mr Samuel holds a Bachelor of Laws from Melbourne University and a Master of Laws from Monash University. |
