Your Committee
Chris Golis is an alumni of Sidney
Sussex who matriculated in 1964. He read Part I Natural Sciences
and Part II Economics. At Sidney Sussex he gained college colours
at Rugby and won a 5 bump oar. He was President of the Junior
Common Room in his final year. Since leaving Cambridge he has
obtained an MBA (with distinction) in 1973 from the London Business
School and the ASX prize for Course Dux in the Diploma Course of the
Securities Insitute of Australia. He has worked both in the
Information Technology industry (finishing as a divisional general
manager) and in Financial Services (finishing as a venture capitalist
for 23 years). He is now semi-retired and developing a third
career as a speaker and trainer as Australia's expert in practical
Emotional Intelligence based on his published books: Empathy
Selling—New Sales Techniques for the 21st Century
and The Humm Handbook: Lifting
Your Level of Emotional Intelligence. He
has sat on some 30
boards of listed and unlisted companies, is a Fellow of the Australian
Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of
Managment.
Chris was elected Treasurer of the Cambridge Society in 2007 and
Chairman in 2008.
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Administrator: Suzie Ruse
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Vice President: Chris Dawson
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Secretary: Alistair
Newmarch
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Treasurer: Lorna Sproston
- Emily
Baxter
- Gemma
Easter
- Rhys Goodey
- Edward Hossack
- Carole
Jackson
- Charlie Kingdon
- Liza Rybak
In 2005, Dr Rybak
graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy from Cambridge University,
Faculty of Law
(Peterhouse). Her doctoral thesis,
supervised
by Professor Simon Deakin, entitled “Arrow, Sen and Stakeholders:
Towards an Interdisciplinary
Examination of Take-over Regulation”, considers legal and economic
theory, and
more specifically aspects of corporate and administrative law. Her recent publication in an international
peer reviewed journal offers an inter-disciplinary explanation of the
firm: “On the
Logical Difficulties, Philosophy, and
the TCE Explanation of the Firm”, Review of Social Economy (Routledge, London 2009).
Dr Rybak is the inaugural
Director of Research at the Federal Court of Australia.
The Director of Research is
responsible to the Principal Registrar/CEO
and ultimately the Chief Justice for the management of the Federal
Court’s
Research Directorate. The Director is a
member of the Principal Registry’s Senior Management with reporting
responsibility to the Policy and Planning Committee.
The primary role of the Director is to
provide research leadership and management of a team of Research
Assistants, to
support and assist judges nationally so as to enable the earliest
possible
delivery of judgments. This includes
undertaking more complex legal research in the Court’s broad
jurisprudence,
preparing high quality submissions on novel questions of law, and
providing
judgment writing assistance on significant Federal Court cases. Notably, the Director undertakes work for
Federal Court Judges nationally. Her
research
leadership includes designing the Court’s research programme and
developing
highly skilled research teams in specialised areas of Federal Court
jurisprudence.
Previous to her
appointment at the Court, Dr Rybak was an academic at the Department of
Law, Macquarie University, with research and
teaching leadership in Administrative and Constitutional Law,
Competition and
Consumer Protection Law and Contracts. In
addition, Dr Rybak has been an Associate to a Deputy President of the
Commonwealth Administrative Appeal Tribunal.
A Cambridge scholar and
academic, with extensive management experience, Dr Rybak brings a
strong
pedagogical and collegial approach to her work.
- Chandra
Senaratne
- Robert
Wilson
After
graduating in Chemical Engineering from Sydney University, Robert
Wilson undertook a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Cambridge from 1960
to 1963, as a member of Pembroke College. He subsequently
returned to Australia and worked at CSR Limited for 29 years in sugar,
building materials and corporate management. Along the way, he
also acquired an MBA from the University of New South Wales. At
the beginning of 1990, a modest career switch saw Robert take up
the position of Executive Director of Austroads, the Australian and New
Zealand association of road and road transport
authorities, devoted to research, best practice and national and
international harmonisation. Austroads activities are
concerned with the full spectrum of social, economic, environmental and
safety issues in the road and road transport sectors within an overall
sustainable transport, demographic and land use context. Since
retiring from Austroads at the end of 2001, Robert has continued
in a part time capacity as Executive Advisor to the President of the
World Road Association (PIARC) whose activities mirror those of
Austroads on a global scale. As the premier international
association with 110 member countries, PIARC is the principal body for
government to government contact, information transfer and
technological exchange on policy, innovation and best practice in the
full spectrum of road and road transport issues worldwide. Robert
has been a member of the Cambridge Society of NSW for a very long
time. He has been a committee member since 2002 and
was Chairman of the Society for three years from 2003 to 2006.