Alumni Lecture Series - Robert Milliner, Senior Adviser, UBS and B20 Sherpa for Australia
Event Details
- Date:
- Thursday, 28 August 2014
- Time:
- 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm
- Room:
- Long Room
- UQ Location:
- Customs House (Customs House)
- URL:
- http://bel.uq.edu.au/robert-milliner
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Ibari Hellmer
- Phone:
- 3346 0634
- Email:
- i.hellmer@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Business, Economics and Law
Event Description
- Full Description:
- About Our Speaker:
Robert Milliner
Senior Adviser at UBS and B20 Sherpa for Australia
Robert Milliner is a Senior Adviser at UBS and the B20 Sherpa for Australia for 2014. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Young Australians and a director of the Australian Charities Fund.
From 2004-2011 he was Chief Executive Partner of Australia’s pre-eminent international law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons) and retired from Mallesons in January 2012 after 28 years as a partner. He led the negotiations for and completion of Mallesons ground-breaking merger with premier Chinese firm, King & Wood in 2011.
In 2012 he was the co-author of an independent review of Commonwealth regulation making practices for the Minister for Finance & Deregulation. The Federal Government agreed to the majority of the review recommendations in December 2012.
Robert was a Director of the Business Council of Australia from 2005-2011, chaired the Business Reform Task Force and was a member of the Global Engagement Task Force. He was a participant in the 1st and 2nd Australia-China CEO Roundtables in Australia in 2010 and China in 2011.
Robert was the inaugural chair of the Large Law Firm Group which represents Australia’s nine largest law firms and is the only law firm member of the Law Council of Australia, and held that role from 2006-2011. He was a member of the International Legal Services Advisory Council (which advises the Federal Attorney-General on the export of legal services) from 2004 -2013, a Director of Asialink – Asia Society Australasia Centre, Australian Business and Community Network and Deputy Chairman of the Mallesons in the Community Board from 2004-2011.
Robert has a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from The University of Queensland and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Australia. In 2010 he attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
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