Catherine Livingstone

Catherine Brighid Livingstone, AO FAA FTSE, (born 17 September 1955)[1] is an Australian businesswoman who has held positions in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, CSIRO, Macquarie Bank and Telstra.

Catherine Livingstone
Born (1955-09-17) 17 September 1955
Nairobi, Kenya
Alma materMacquarie University
OccupationChairwoman

Professional

After finishing her degree in 1977, Livingstone joined the accountancy firm of Price Waterhouse, working in both Sydney and London. She then held several accounting and management roles at Nucleus Ltd, finally reaching the position of Chief Executive, Finance, before being made the CEO of one of its subsidiaries, Cochlear Limited, in 1994.[2] A year later she floated the company for $125m on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Livingstone has been an independent voting director of the Macquarie Bank and the Macquarie Group and a director of Future Directions International. She remains a non-executive director of WorleyParsons and a member of the Business/Industry/Higher Education Collaboration Committee.[3]

Previously, she was the CSIRO chair from 2001 to 2006, director of the Sydney Institute from 1998 to 2005, director of the Rural Press Foundation, chair and director of the Australian Business Foundation from 2000 to 2005, and the chair of Telstra from 2009 to 2016.[4]

On 22 January 2008, it was announced that Livingstone would be a member of the panel conducting the review of Australia's national innovation system.[5][6]

In March 2014, she was elected president of the Business Council of Australia for a two-year term, replacing Tony Shepherd.[7] She was succeeded by Grant King in November, 2016.[8]

In 2014, she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA).[9]

In December 2015, Livingstone was announced as the successor to Professor Vicki Sara as the Chancellor of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She officially became the Chancellor of UTS on 1 December 2016.

Livingstone replaced David Turner as chairman of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in January 2017.[10]

Awards

Livingstone was awarded the title of the Eisenhower Exchange Foundation Fellow for Australia in 1999.[11]

She became an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2008, "for service to the development of Australian science, technology and innovation policies, to the business sector through leadership and management roles and as a contributor to professional organisations".[12]

References
  1. Korporaal, Glenda; Urban, Rebecca (31 October 2009). "Big task for Telstra chair". The Australian. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  2. Cochlear Pty LimitedArchived 16 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Board of Worley Parsons". Workley Parsons. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  4. "John Mullen slides into Telstra chair as Catherine Livingstone leaves". The Australian. 26 April 2016.
  5. Review of Australia's national innovation system Archived 9 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine, www.innovation.gov.au
  6. "Government Announces Review of National Innovation System" Archived 22 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, innovation.gov.au, February 2008
  7. Michael Smith (28 March 2014). "Australia has 'lost pioneering spirit' : outgoing BCA president". Business Weekly Review. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
  8. Michael Janda (7 November 2016). "Business Council of Australia appoints Grant King as next president". ABC News.
  9. Ms Catherine Brighid Livingstone, Elected 2014, Australian Academy of Science.
  10. "Commonwealth Bank announces appointment of new Chairman". Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  11. Eisenhower Exchange Foundation Fellow Archived 15 August 2007 at archive.today, eisenhowerfellowships.org
  12. Officer of the Order of Australia Archived 14 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, It’s An Honour, www.itsanhonour.gov.au, accessed 24-03-08
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