Steven Lowy was appointed managing director of Westfield Holdings in 1997 and currently serves as co-chief executive officer. Prior to joining Westfield in 1987, he worked in investment banking in the USA. Mr Lowy is chairman of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute; a director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy; a member of the Prime Minister’s Business–Government Advisory Group on National Security; and chairman of the Board of Management for the Associate Degree of Policing Practice in New South Wales.

Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2006; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2014.

Sandra McPhee has extensive experience as a non-executive director and senior executive in a range of consumer-oriented industries, including utilities, retail, tourism and aviation, most recently with Qantas Airways Limited. Ms McPhee is a director of AGL Energy Limited, Fairfax Media Limited, Westfield Retail Trust and Tourism Australia; a member of the Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan, Mercer, Marsh McLennan Companies and St Vincents and Mater Health; a former deputy chairman of South Australian Water; and a former director of Coles Group Limited, Australia Post, Perpetual Limited, Primelife Corporation and CARE Australia.

Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2004; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2013.

Geoffrey Ainsworth is a director of the Bundanon Trust, a director of Benthic Geotech Pty Ltd, and a former director of Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. He is a member of the Council of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and a patron of a number of cultural and charitable initiatives, including the Asia-Australia Arts Centre, a former member of the Venice Biennale Commissioner’s Council and a former a trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW Foundation. Mr Ainsworth is also an internationally known art collector.

Initial date of appointment 10 Feb 2010; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2015.

David Baffsky is honorary chairman of Accor Asia Pacific, which is the largest hotel management company in the Asia Pacific; chairman and a director of Ariadne Australia Ltd; a director and life member of the Tourism Task Force; a director of the Indigenous Land Corporation, Singapore Airport Terminal Services Pty Ltd and Sydney Olympic Park Authority; and chairman of Investa Property Group. In 2004, Mr Baffsky was appointed to the federal government’s National Tourism Infrastructure Investment Consultative Group and the Business Government Advisory Group on National Security. In 2007, he was appointed to the federal government’s Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce and the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership. In June 2001, he was made an officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. Mr Baffsky was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003 and was the 2004 Asia Pacific Hotelier of the Year.

Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2006; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2014.

Guido Belgiorno-Nettis is the joint managing director of Transfield Holdings Pty Ltd; a non-executive director of Transfield Services Limited; chairman of Novatec Solar GmbH Shareholder Committee and the Australian Chamber Orchestra; a member of the University of NSW Faculty of Business; and an interstate member of the Brisbane Club. In 2005, he was awarded the Australian Graduate School of Management’s Distinguished Alumni Award for leadership and innovation in business services. Mr Belgiorno-Nettis was made a member of the Order of Australia in the General Division on Australia Day, 2007 for service both to the construction industry, particularly through the management of large infrastructure projects, and to the arts in executive and philanthropic roles. In 2008 he was the recipient of the University of NSW Alumni Association Award.

Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2007; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2015.

Lindy Lee is a senior lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. She is also an artist whose works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and the state galleries of New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia, as well as major corporate collections. Dr Lee has featured in many solo exhibitions since 1985, including in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore. Since 1992 she has participated in group exhibitions in Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia and Australia. She is a former board member of Artspace and the Australian Centre of Photography; former president of the Asian Australian Artists Association; and former deputy chair of the Visual Arts and Craft Fund, Australia Council.

Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2006; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2014.

Samantha Meers is executive deputy chairman of the Nelson Meers Group, a property and investment group, and executive director of the Nelson Meers Foundation, a philanthropic foundation dedicated to supporting innovation and engagement in the cultural sector. Ms Meers is currently a director of the State Library of NSW Foundation, a director of The Climate Institute, a member of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation Advisory Council and a member of the Centre for Social Impact Advisory Council (University of New South Wales). Ms Meers has formerly held a wide range of not-for-profit board positions, including as deputy chairman of Philanthropy Australia and of the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA), and as a board member of the Belvoir St Theatre and the Power Institute for Art and Visual Culture (University of Sydney). Previously, Ms Meers practised as a commercial lawyer for many years, subsequently holding senior management positions in the media sector.

Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2011; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2013.

Mark Nelson is a founder and chief investment officer of the Caledonia Investment Group and a director of the Caledonia Foundation. He is a director of Art Exhibitions Australia and Kaldor Public Art Projects; a trustee of the Sydney Australian Football Association; and governor of the Florey Neuroscience Institutes.

Initial date of appointment 10 Feb 2010; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2015.

Ben Quilty is a practising artist and Sydney College of the Arts graduate. He also graduated from the University of Western Sydney School of Design and has completed studies in Aboriginal culture and history through Monash University, Melbourne. His work is held in numerous institutional collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia and Art Gallery of NSW. He has won numerous awards in Australia including the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Redlands Westpac Art Prize, National Self Portrait Prize and Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. Quilty has guest lectured extensively and is a former board member of Artspace in Woolloomooloo.

Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2013; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2015.

Warwick Smith is chairman of the ANZ Banking Group NSW & ACT; chairman of the Advisory Board of Australian Capital Equity, holders of interests in Seven Group Holdings, West Australian News, Coates Hire, WesTrac and Caterpillar industrial services and equipment in Western Australia, New South Wales and North East China; chairman of the Australia–China Council, global trustee of the Asia Society and chairman of the Asia Society in Australia; and chairman of the Flagship Property Group. Formerly, he was chairman of E*TRADE, the Australian Sports Commission and Bundanon Trust; an executive director with Macquarie Bank; and a federal government minister with a parliamentary career spanning 15 years. He was also Australia’s first telecommunications ombudsman and has received a Centenary Medal and an Order of Australia.

Initial date of appointment 1 Jan 2013; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2015.

Eleonora Triguboff established a career as a sculptor in the 1980s, exhibiting in New York, Europe and Japan. In 2003 she became publisher and editor-in-chief of the quarterly publication Art & Australia. In this role, she developed initiatives such as the Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award, the Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Art & Australia Emerging Writers Program, an annual 25/25 magazine with Noise, and the New Word Order writing competition for secondary school students, now Artwrite, with the Art Gallery of NSW. Ms Triguboff set up the Dot Publishing imprint to produce art and design titles, the first of which – Current: contemporary art from Australia and New Zealand – was launched in November 2008. She is a council member of the Animal Protection Institute.

Initial date of appointment 16 Jul 2008; expiry of current term 31 Dec 2013.