Overview

Gender

male

Geoff Raby was appointed to the Board in May 2014 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Geoff is also a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. Geoff is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Geoff Raby & Associates, a Beijing-based business advisory firm. Geoff is also an Independent Director on the boards of Fortescue Metals Group, OceanaGold and Yancoal Australia.

He is also Co-Chair of Corrs Chambers Westgarth’s China Business Practice, Senior Advisor to Kreab Gavin Anderson, and Vice Chairman of Macquarie Group China. Additionally, Geoff is a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow at Monash University, and a member of the Advance Global Advisory Board and the International Education Advisory Council by the Minister of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

Geoff was formerly Chairman of ASX-listed SmartTrans Holdings Ltd (retired 4 April 2016) and an independent director of YPB Group Limited (retirement effective May 2016). Geoff was the Australian Ambassador to China from February 2007 to August 2011 and Deputy Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade from November 2002 to November 2006. Between 1993 and 1995, Geoff was head of the Trade Policy Issues Division of the OECD, Paris.

Geoff received a Bachelor of Economics (Hons), a Masters of Economics and PhD degrees from La Trobe University.