Fellow of Senate

Alan Cameron AM

BA LLM Syd
Fellow of Senate, 2004 -
Chair, Audit and Risk Management Committee, 2006 -
Deputy Chancellor, 2008 -

Alan Cameron is a graduate of the University of Sydney (BA 1967, LLB 1971, LLM 1977) and has been Fellow of Senate of the University appointed by the Minister for Education and Training (on the nomination of Senate) since February 2004. His current term commenced on 1 January 2006 and concludes on 31 December 2009.

Mr Cameron is currently Deputy Chancellor (elected by Senate on 4 February 2008, for a two year term of office) and Chair of Senate's Audit and Risk Management Committee. As Deputy Chancellor, he is an ex-officio member of Senate's Advisory Committee for Honorary Awards, Chair Appointments Committee, Nominations Committee, Remuneration and Benefits Committee and Senate/Student Associations Liaison Committee. He was formerly a member of the Senate/SRC and Senate/SUPRA Liaison Committees.

Alan was Principal Solicitor of the New South Wales Aboriginal Legal Service from 1973 to 1975, and taught law at the University of North Sumatra in Indonesia from 1975 to 1977, before joining the law firm now known as Blake Dawson Waldron. He was a partner from 1979 until 1991, Sydney managing partner from 1982 until 1985, and national managing partner from February 1989 until March 1991. During that time, he was also a judicial member of the New South Wales Equal Opportunity Tribunal, and Chairman of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.

In April 1991 he was appointed Commonwealth Ombudsman. He relinquished that position at the end of 1992 to become chairman of the Australian Securities Commission (ASC) and was chairman of the ASC and its successor, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), from January 1993 to November 2000.

His directorships and consultancies include being

• chair of Westpac Funds Management Limited and Westpac's life and general insurance companies
• chairman of Reliance Rail group, a public private partnership responsible for building and operating Sydney's new suburban train fleet
• chair of Cameron Ralph Pty Limited, a board performance assessment business,
• director of Audit Quality Review Board Limited
• consultant to Blake Dawson, lawyers and
• membership of the NSW Judicial Commission.

He conducts the corporate governance component of the Advanced Courses for the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and is a program leader for the Toronto International Leadership Centre for Financial Sector Supervision.

Honorary roles include being

• a member of the International Advisory Council of the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission
• a director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre
• chair of the Sydney Peace Foundation, a foundation of the University in partnership with business and the community