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NIGEL MILAN, AM
Appointed August 2011

JAIME PHILLIPS
Appointed August 2011

PETER PHILLIPS
Appointed August 2011

Now a professional non-executive director,
most of Nigel’s career has been in television and
broadcasting, in the Australian and New Zealand
public and private sectors. Nigel, who has held
numerous non-executive directorships in not for
profit organisations, was a member of the board of
the Fred Hollows Foundation from 1997 to 2007
(Chair from 2002) and National Chief Executive
Officer of the Royal Flying Doctor Service
(RFDS) from October 2006 until October 2010.

Jaime Phillips’ career has taken her to regional
and remote communities across Western
Australia. Working in the private sector, Jaime
develops community strategies for large resource
and infrastructure projects. As a director of
Palea Project Associates, Jaime moves between
corporate offices, construction sites, mines and
remote towns. She is inspired by projects that
create jobs, address disadvantage and capture the
imagination of local and Indigenous people in
the regions.

Peter grew up in Frankston and now lives with
his wife and two young sons, Will and Tom,
in Melbourne.

Jaime has an honours degree in History and
English from the University of Western Australia
and is involved in Perth’s creative sector. She
volunteers on urban design and art groups and
is fascinated by plans to revitalise the cityscape
of Perth.

Peter has a Bachelor of Economics (Hons),
Master of Applied Finance and Master of
Regulatory Studies, and is currently working on
a regulatory history of Victoria for his PhD. He
has a keen interest in Australian history and is
in receipt of a research grant to write a history of
Australia in the First World War.

While Managing Director of the Special
Broadcasting Service (SBS) from 1998 until
2006, SBS television and radio audiences grew
significantly as did the quantity and quality of
Australian (including Indigenous) produced
programs on the network.
In Australia, Nigel had a successful commercial
radio career in CEO and leadership roles in the
Macquarie, Bond Radio and ARN networks.
He was Chief Executive Officer of Radio New
Zealand from 1991-1995.
Currently Nigel is on the Board of the Sydney
Catchment Authority, Chairs the Advisory Board
of The Australian School of Performing Arts and
is Vice Chair of Special Olympics Australia.

Jaime has served on the National Advisory
Council of the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation and the Advisory Committee of the
Western Australian Maritime Museum.

Following university, Peter worked in Canberra as
an economist with the Commonwealth Treasury,
and has maintained an interest in economics
and regulatory policy since then. Peter is the
director of a small regulatory and governance
consultancy, specialising environmental and
regulatory frameworks.

Peter is involved in a number of small community
groups, including his sons’ football team and
various church committees. Peter also serves as a
Justice of the Peace and is a board member for an
organisation working with people with disabilities

He and his wife Judi own a small cattle farm in
the Southern Highlands of NSW. His daughter
Lucy is a teaching musician and singer, she lives
in London.

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