Committee for Melbourne appoints new Chief Executive Officer [23.12.2009]
Chairman's Message
I am pleased to announce that we have appointed Mr Andrew MacLeod as our Chief Executive Officer, commencing January 2010.
Andrew’s appointment is a real win for the Committee for Melbourne. The level of interest in the position of CEO for the Committee for Melbourne was unprecedented, with a very large number of well qualified applicants contacting us directly as well as nominations being put to us by various community leaders. Andrew was selected by a very thorough process, involving nearly all Board members, from a shortlist of highly competent candidates.
We were greatly impressed by a number of Andrew’s attributes. Among them, is a demonstrated track record of being able to engage stakeholders to achieve difficult, complex and significant outcomes.
With Andrew at the helm, the Committee has an opportunity to move up another step, just as Sally Capp helped us to do, because, like his predecessor when she took on the job, Andrew is a person who is on the rise.
Andrew has had a diverse and rewarding career, enjoying leadership roles within large and small business environments in the private and public sector. After holding positions with the Australian Army and Dunhill Madden Butler in Melbourne, he accepted a role in the International Committee at the Red Cross working in countries such as former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
In 1999, Andrew moved back to Melbourne to focus on consulting and entering politics. Andrew accepted a role from Deputy Premier John Thwaites as Senior Political and Policy Adviser and remained there for a year until January 2003. At this point, he decided that he wanted to return to his international activities and successfully applied to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva. For eight months in 2003, he held a number of positions there until October 2005 when the UN sent him to Pakistan to co-ordinate the massive earthquake relief in Kashmir. Between October 2005 and May 2008, he was based in Pakistan and, from May last year to May this year, in The Philippines, dealing with typhoon relief and recovery.
Andrew was born in November 1966 in Melbourne. He completed his first degree at the University of Tasmania, graduating in 1992 with a double degree in Arts/Law.
Andrew is a silver medallist in 200m Butterfly at the 2002 World Masters Games, a former state medallist in surf-lifesaving, and achieved fourth place in debating at the World Championships.
I’m really looking forward to working with Andrew in moving the Committee’s agenda into 2010.
Wishing you a Festive Season and Happy New Year.
Sincerely,
George Pappas