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Before that Judy was the Chief Executive Officer of Lonely Planet Publications for six years. Lonely Planet is the world's leading travel publisher with around 400 staff and 350 freelance travel writers. In her last year, Judy supported the sale of Lonely Planet to BBC Worldwide.

Before joining Lonely Planet Judy worked with a Silicon Valley start up to launch in Australia. She did this for 18 months while waiting until 'the right job came along' after she left Telstra. At Telstra Judy was the Chief of Consumer Sales responsible for over 6 million customers, over $4 billion in turnover and 5,000 staff. Judy was with Telstra for eight years starting in the International Division and was instrumental in the development of the FOXTEL partnership.

Judy has also worked in the Australian government across a number of portfolios :Industrial Relations, Transport and Communications, Finance, Child Care and Social Security, including advising Ministers. She is also a keen cyclist and took a gap year when she cycled 6,000 kilometres from Greece to Norway.

Judy has an MBA from Sydney University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Canberra. She also attended a six week executive MBA at Stanford University while at Telstra.

Jonathan has been at Investa for over 8 years where he has held a number of roles, including the role of Group General Counsel.

Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons), a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Masters of Applied Finance.

Ralph, who has worked with Munich Re since 1987, held various management roles including Casualty Underwriting, Customised Portfolio Solutions and Risk Management. In his previous position he headed an international department which is responsible for the planning and performance monitoring for the group’s reinsurance business in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Australasia.

Paul was previously CEO of Group Consumer, where he was responsible for SingTel’s Consumer businesses including the wholly owned operations in Singapore and Australia, as well as SingTel's investments in Thailand, India, Africa, Philippines and Indonesia. Over the past several months Paul has been based in Australia, where he juggled the dual responsibilities of CEO, Group Consumer with the extra duties of CEO, Consumer Australia.

Paul was CEO of Optus from September 2004 to March 2012 and has previously held management positions within Optus including Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Optus Mobile. He has also worked in various international management roles at the Colonial Group and the Royal Dutch Shell Group in Canada, the Middle East, Australia and the United Kingdom.

Paul serves on the Board of Commissioners of Telkomsel.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts (Mod) Economics from Trinity College, University of Dublin and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of Harvard University, US.

Prior to joining Westpac, Brian spent three years in the UK as CEO for Retail, Wealth and Ulster Bank at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Prior to that, he spent ten years with Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) in Australia in a variety of roles, including his final role as CEO, Australia and Global Segment Lead for Retail and Wealth. 

Before joining ANZ, Brian spent ten years as a financial services consultant in New York, San Francisco, and Melbourne. 

Brian graduated from Princeton University with a degree in European History and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. 

“Our work to support customers and communities after recent natural disasters has really highlighted to me the economic and social challenges they face, in many cases long after the event itself. I am pleased to be involved in this Roundtable to support action from business, community and government to prevent and reduce the impacts of natural disasters and build safer communities”