Aid Advisory Council Members

Mr Kim Bredhauer

Mr Kim Bredhauer is Managing Director of GRM International Pty Ltd.

Mr Bredhauerhas gained extensive experience as a manager and director of development assistance projects since joining GRM International in 1982 as an Agricultural Economist. His positions have included Asian Regional Business Development Manager, GRM International Manila; and Project Director, GRM International Brisbane.

Mr Bredhauer was Director, Landmark Limited - International Land Management Research Centre, an Asia-Pacific centre for research and training in land management and sustainable development in 1997-1998. He is affiliated with the Society for International Development and the Australian Agribusiness Association.

Mr Bredhauer has experience in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, India, Indonesia, Samoa, Vanuatu, Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Oman, Egypt, Ethiopia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Mr Tim Costello

Tim Costello is one of the nation's leading campaigners on social justice issues. He commenced as Chief Executive of World Vision Australia in March 2004. In July, Tim was awarded 'Victorian of the Year 2004', by the Victoria Day Award for Public and Community Service.

After studying law and education at Monash University and obtaining his Masters in Theology at the Melbourne College of Divinity, Tim was ordained a Baptist Minister in 1986. He established a vibrant and socially active ministry at St Kilda Baptist Church between 1986 -1994 and was elected Mayor of St Kilda in 1993. In 1995 Tim was appointed Minister of Collins Street Baptist Church and Executive Director of Urban Seed, a Christian not-for-profit organisation that provides outreach services and hospitality to the urban poor. He held this position until his move to World Vision.

Tim is recognised for articulating the social conscience of many Australians on tough domestic issues such urban poverty, homelessness, problem gambling, reconciliation and substance abuse. For nine years he was the spokesperson for the Interchurch Gambling Taskforce and a member of the National Advisory Body on Gambling. He is the former national president of the Baptist Union of Australia. Tim is currently Chairman of the National Australia Bank external Stakeholder forum, a member of the AMP Sustainable Funds Committee and a member of the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation.

Tim's passion for justice has compelled him to experience the lives of the poor in the Sudan, Philippines, Cambodia, Brazil, Indonesia and East Timor. What he saw and felt on these trips compelled him to challenge global poverty in the name of his fellow Australians. He has also written several books including : Streets of Hope: Finding God in St Kilda; Tips from a Travelling Soul Searcher and Wanna Bet? Winners and Losers in Gambling's Luck Myth, which was co-written by Royce Millar. Tim and his wife of 25 years, Merridie have three adult children, Claire, Elliot and Martin.

Professor Ron Duncan

Professor Ron Duncan is Executive Director, Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji Islands, and Professor Emeritus, School of Economics, The Australian National University.

Until September, 2002, Professor Duncan was Director of the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management at The Australian National University. He was also Executive Director of the National Centre for Development Studies at ANU (since 1994).

Professor Duncan was employed by the World Bank (1980-93) as Chief of the International Commodity Markets Division, and then Chief, International Trade Division. Prior to that he worked in the Australian Government's Industries Assistance Commission and the New South Wales Department of Agriculture.

Professor Duncan's interests are in development economics, agricultural and trade policy, competition policy, and management of natural resources. He has been a consultant to AusAID, the Asian Development Bank, ESCAP, and the World Bank. His primary developing country interests are in countries of he South Pacific and East Asia. He is a member of the Asian Development Bank Institute Advisory Council.

Professor Duncan was awarded a Centenary Medal for Services to Australian Society through Economics.

Mr John Eales

As the most capped Wallaby captain, John participated in two successful World Cup campaigns; captained the Wallabies in victories including the 1999 World Cup; led Australia through four successive years of Bledisloe Cup wins and two successful seasons of Tri-Nations. John has and continues to be a great ambassador for rugby following his retirement in September 2001.

Following retirement, John transferred his leadership skills to the corporate world. He has developed the John Eales 5 brand which deals in corporate hospitality. John is also an executive of the BT Financial Group and an Ambassador of the Australian Rugby Union.

John has recently undertaken a role with the Mettle Group and sits on the Board. With Mettle, he has been building a series of leadership and team development tools designed for corporations and sporting organisations.

Mr Tony Eggleton

Mr Tony Eggleton is Chairman of CARE Australia and is Australia's representative on the board of CARE International. He is also Chairman of CARE International's Strategic Planning Committee and the Governance and Nominations Committee.

Before joining the CARE Australia Board in 1996 he had served both as Secretary-General of CARE International in Brussels from 1991-95 and as Chief Executive of CARE Australia from 1995-96.

Mr Eggleton is currently also the Chair of the Asia Pacific Democrat Union and Vice-Chair of the International Democrat Union, a Board Member of the National Stroke Foundation and a Member of the Foreign Affairs Editorial Advisory Board.

From 1997 - 2002, Mr Eggleton was a member of the National Council for the Centenary of Federation and the Council's Chief Executive Officer. From 1976 -1983 he served as an Advisor to the Australian Government on matters relating to the Commonwealth of Nations. Mr Eggleton was Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia, and national campaign director, from 1975 - 1990.

Mr Jack de Groot

Jack de Groot has been the CEO of Caritas Australia since August 2000. Caritas Australia is the official international aid and development agency of the Catholic Church. Since joining Caritas Australia, Jack has gained first hand experience of Caritas Australia funded programs with Australia's indigenous communities, in many parts of Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and Africa.

Jack was the founding Executive Officer of the Melbourne Archdiocese's Catholic Commission for Justice, Development and Peace from 1993 to 1997.

Jack has assisted the work of Caritas Australia in both Melbourne and Perth since 1993. He has also served as a member of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council and on the Council of Uniya and Catholic Social Services in Melbourne.

Ms Gaye Hart, AM

Ms Gaye Hart is Director of TAFE NSW - Hunter Institute. She is President of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and a Director of the Newcastle Port Corporation.

Ms Hart is the former Executive Director of the Australian National Committee for UNICEF. She has made a significant contribution to Australia's overseas aid program, serving on several non-government and Government consultative bodies. From 1998-2001 she was Chair of the ACFID Code of Conduct Committee. She was also a member of the 1997 Simons Committee to Review Australia's Overseas Aid Program.

Gaye was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1989 received a Centenary Medal in 2003. She holds a Doctorate in Education (honoris causa) and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Education and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Professor Rob Moodie

Professor Rob Moodie is currently the Chief Executive Officer of VicHealth, the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation. He is editor of the Australian Health Promotion Journal, and has Professorial appointments in public health at the University of Melbourne and Monash University.

Professor Moodie graduated in Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1976 and later trained in Tropical Medicine at Paris University and Public Health at Harvard University. He is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

Dr Moodie was a Founding Board Member of Medicin Sans Frontieres Australia, and was Co-Chair of the 6^th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, held in Melbourne in October 2001. He was the inaugural Director of Country Support for the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS (UNAIDS) at the World Health Organisation headquarters in Geneva, and was responsible for setting up UNAIDS country programs in over 100 countries. Dr Moodie was the founding Director of the International Health Unit at the MacFarlane Burnet Centre and was co-editor with Tamar Kwarteng of the book: Community Action on HIV.

He is currently Vice-President, International Union of Health Promotion and Education and is Co-chair of the World Conference on Health Promotion to be held in Melbourne in 2004. He is Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on AIDS and Related Diseases, and is a member of the Premiers Drug Prevention Council, and the Victorian Strategic Health Research Investment Committee. He is currently editing a new publication: Hands on Health Promotion.

Mr Alan Morris

Mr Morris is the part time Chairperson of the Commonwealth Grants Commission. Prior to this he was the Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He has extensive experience in the public sector and in advising on economic issues in Australia, PNG and the Pacific.

Mr Paul O'Callaghan

Paul O'Callaghan joined ACFID in 2005 after four years as Senior Adviser to the National Industry Association for Disability Services (ACROD), where he played a major role in shaping the national disability employment reform agenda.

Mr O'Callaghan served as Australia's High Commissioner in Samoa and representative to the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme (1998-2000) and had previous diplomatic appointments in Malaysia and Thailand, as well as an assignment with the Australian Trade Commission in Canberra. He served as trade adviser to the Parliamentary Secretary for Trade and Primary Industry in 1996-97.

Mr O'Callaghan has degrees from ANU and the London School of Economics and completed the Benevolent Society's Sydney Leadership program in 2002. He has served on the boards of a number of non-profit organizations and is active in the St Vincent de Paul Society at a local level. He is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and is on the board of the Australian Society for Association Executives (ACT chapter).

Ms Meryl Williams

Dr Williams is the Chair of ACIAR and the inaugural Executive Officer of the Future Harvest Alliance Office, formed in 2004 by the 15 international agricultural research centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. She has an eminent record in fisheries and has held a number of senior positions in Australia and overseas, including as Director General of the WorldFish Centre for 10 years.