Mark Johnson, AO

Chairman of the Australian Financial Centre Task Force


Mark Johnson, AO is Co-Chair of the US Studies Centre Council of Advisors.

He is former Chairman of AGL Energy and of Macquarie Infrastructure Group.

He is Chairman of the Australian Financial Centre Task Force, an Australian Government initiative directed towards ensuring efficiency and competitiveness in the financial services sector.

He retired as Deputy Chairman of Macquarie Bank in July 2007, after a career of more than forty years in banking and corporate finance.

He is one of the three Australian members of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) since 2002, and he was Chairman of ABAC and the APEC Business Summit in Sydney in 2008. He was Chairman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute from 2005 to 2008.

He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Institute for International Trade at the University of Adelaide, and a Life Governor of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.