Gary Neat

Gary Francis Neat (born 27 October 1948) is an Australian business leader and company director. He is a former journalist and senior political figure.

Career

Neat is chair of the ADSHAN Group[1] and the former national president of the Australian Institute of Management.[2]

He was a Chevening Scholar[3] at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and has a master's degree in management from the Norwegian School of Management. Attended Newcastle Boys' High School.

He is a life fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and was a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors,[4] the Institute of Public Administration Australia (Vic) and the Australian Marketing Institute. Neat has been awarded 5 Australian Marketing Awards and was chairman of the Australian Marketing Industry Review.[5]

Among some 20 directorships, he was formerly a director of Greening Australia, a director of the Adult Community & Further Education Board,[6] a director of the Joint Accreditation System for Australia & New Zealand and a vice president of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in Victoria.[7] He was also Australia's representative on Asia's major business forum – AAMO.

Neat was state director of the Liberal Party in Queensland for 7 years and directed more than 20 election campaigns. He was a member of the Liberal Party's Federal Executive and ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1987.[8] He published "The New Politics" in 1987.[7]

Neat was a senior journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for 16 years, including assignments as a foreign correspondent in Asia during the 1970s in Indochina, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Philippines.[9] He was a Political Correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation[10][11] and a producer with the BBC in London.

References

  1. ↑ "ADSHAN Consulting Group - Gary Neat". adshan.com.au.
  2. ↑ http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/author/. Retrieved 23 September 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "Welcome to Chevening". chevening.org.
  4. ↑ "Our Fellows - IPAA Victoria". ipaa.org.au.
  5. ↑ Smeaton, Kirra, ed. (2012). Who's who in Business in Australia 2012-2013. Crown Content. p. 863. ISBN 978-1-74095-182-1.
  6. ↑ Adult, Community and Further Education Board Annual Report
  7. 1 2 "Annual Report 2013/2014" (PDF). Australian Institute of International Affairs Victoria. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Journalists in Parliament - Crikey". crikey.com.au.
  9. ↑ "Papers of Gary Neat, [manuscript]. - Version details - Trove". nla.gov.au.
  10. ↑ Anderson, Fay; Trembath, Richard (1 April 2011). Witnesses To War: The History Of Australian Conflict Reporting. Melbourne Univ. Publishing. pp. 427–. ISBN 978-0-522-86022-1.
  11. ↑ "Search". awm.gov.au.


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