Presenters 2010

	The Hon Anthony Albanese MP The Hon Anthony Albanese MP is the Federal Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government and the Leader of the House of Representatives. Minister Albanese was first elected to Federal Parliament in 1996 as the Member for Grayndler. He served as a member of the Shadow Ministry from 1998 to 2007 in a number of portfolios including Infrastructure, Water, Environment and Heritage, Employment Services and Training and Ageing and Seniors. He has also served on a number of House of Representatives Committees, including Ageing, Economics, Finance and Public Administration, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Financial Institutions and Public Administration and Communications, and Transport and Microeconomic Reform. He has also held a number of party positions and is currently a member of the ALP National Executive. Minister Albanese has an Economics Degree from Sydney University. His seat of Grayndler is located in Sydney’s inner west, where he has lived all his life.
	Prof Peter McDonald BComm (NSW), PhD (ANU), FASSA, Professor of Demography and Director of the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute.   He is Vice President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) for the years, 2006-2009 and has been elected President of IUSSP for the period, 2010-2013. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council. Prior to his present appointment he was head of research at the Australian Institute of Family Studies for a period of 11 years.   He has also worked at the Demographic Institute of the University of Indonesia, at the World Fertility Survey, London and the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Throughout his career, he has been actively engaged in the teaching and promotion of demography as a discipline while applying interdisciplinary approaches in his research.   He has a PhD degree in Demography from the Australian National University and an Honours degree in Economics Statistics from the University of New South Wales.
USA	Jeremy Harris served for more than ten years as the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, the 12th largest city in the United States.    Since retiring from elected office in January of 2005, he has been a strong international voice for the development of sustainable cities. Over the last three years, the Mayor has served in a number of roles in this regard. In 2005, he was a national director on the board of the American Institute of Architects, and helped create a new AIA program focused on helping American cities become more sustainable. He was also appointed as a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. Mr Harris is currently a member of the Sustainability Roundtable of the National Academy of Science and also serves on the National Academy’s Committee to advise Congress on the future policy and research direction of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 2007, the Mayor served as an expert for the UN Habitat and the Korean government in the development of an International Urban Training Center in Korea. At the request of the Asian Development Bank and the State Department, Mayor Harris delivered a keynote speech on urban energy policy in Manila. Mayor Harris is the co-founder of the Mayor’s Asia-Pacific Environmental Summit (MAPES), a biennial summit conference sponsored by The Sustainable Cities Institute, the Asian Development Bank, the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives as well as other international organizations. This program for urban sustainability has established a network of Asian and Pacific Island mayors and local government leaders. In 2007 he co-chaired a MAPES summit in Melbourne, Australia, in partnership with the Mayor of Melbourne. Through The Sustainable Cities Institute, a non-governmental organization, the Mayor has also provided advice and guidance on issues related to urban sustainable development to organizations around the world.
	Professor Richard Weller Richard Weller is Winthrop Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Western Australia (UWA) where he is renowned for combining teaching, research and practice in a dynamic student-centered environment. He received an excellence in teaching award from the UWA in 2003. In over 20 years of design practice Professor Weller has received a consistent stream of international, design competition awards. His work has been widely exhibited including in a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1998) and at the Venice Biennale (2004). Professor Weller has published over 50 papers and given over 80 invited presentations on contemporary urban design and landscape architecture. His design work has been published as a monograph by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2005 and his planning work concerning the creation of alternative urban growth scenarios for the city of Perth by the year 2050 is the subject of his latest book, ‘Boomtown 2050’: a book acclaimed by Charles Waldheim, Chair  of Landscape architecture at Harvard University, as a ‘must read’ for students of the city world-wide. Professor Weller consults as both a designer and a reviewer of major projects.
	Rod Fehring, Executive General Manager, Australand Limited Mr Fehring joined the executive team of Australand in March 2010. Prior to joining Australand Mr Fehring spent nearly 9 years with Lend Lease in various roles as CEO of its retirement living/aged care business, its Venture Capital business and 6 years as Chief Executive Officer of Delfin Lend Lease. Mr Fehring has 30 years experience in the property industry primarily in the residential development and planning sectors. Mr Fehring is also Chairman of the Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute Ltd, and has held Directorships of the Property Council of Australia and was the immediate past Chairman of the Residential Development Council of Australia.
	Mark Fuller, Managing Principal, AECOM Design + Planning Mark Fuller has over 30 years professional experience, having worked extensively in Australia and the United Kingdom, as well as South East Asia, China, the Middle East and New Zealand. Based in AECOM’s Design + Planning studio in Brisbane, Mark leads the firm’s global design practice. He is a registered landscape architect, a chartered member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a chartered member of the Landscape Institute (UK) and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. Mark’s work has been recognised with a number of industry awards. He is a strong supporter of collaborative teamwork and he leads the firm’s ongoing commitment to high-quality, integrated, multidisciplinary design.
	Mr Jim Murphy, Executive Director, Markets Group, Department of the Treasury Jim is the Executive Director of Markets Group, Treasury. In this position he has responsibility for policy relating to the financial system including prudential and corporate regulation; competition and consumer policy, and foreign investment. Prior to his current appointment with the Treasury, Jim was an Advisor with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC. Jim has broad experience within the Australian Government having held senior positions with the Department of Finance as head of Budget Policy, the Attorney General’s Department as head of the Business Law Division and with the Treasury as Principal Adviser for Corporations Law. In these positions, Jim led major Government policy initiatives including the corporate law economic reform program, new arrangements for the managed funds industry and the inter-governmental agreement for regulation of corporations and financial markets. Jim is a member of the Financial Reporting Council, the Trans Tasman Accounting and Auditing Standards Advisory Group, the Financial Sector Advisory Council, the Council of Financial Regulators and is a Director of Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation. Jim holds degrees in Economics and Law from the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University.