FRIDAY 28 JULY

Woodward Conference Centre Level 10, Law Building

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Faculty of Business and Economics Future Leaders Forum 2017

REFLECTIONS ON LEADERSHIP

Ms Mariam IssaFuture Leaders Forum 2016

Future Leaders Forum 2017

The Forum aims to provide students with practical perspectives on leadership, drawing on the experiences of leaders from a variety of fields. Many students will spend a large part of their working life in business or government, and are likely to achieve a position where they will be expected to play a leadership role. This may take some time, or it may happen straight away. This year, our outstanding group of invited speakers will talk about their own path to leadership, perspectives on leadership and important issues for today’s leaders.

By showing ways in which their knowledge of the world of commerce can be applied outside the classroom, the Future Leaders Forum contributes to students’ understanding of the importance and relevance of commerce studies. The event provides a range of rich opportunities for meeting and networking with business and community leaders and other high-achieving students.

The Faculty of Business and Economics’ annual Future Leaders Forum is an event dedicated to enriching the learning experiences of 120 of our most talented students.

Ms Rosemary AddisFuture Leaders Forum 2016

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THE PROGRAM

TIME ACTIVITY SPEAKERS

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 9:10 Official Opening Professor Jeff Borland, Faculty of Business and Economics

Professor Paul Jensen, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics

9:10 - 10:00 Session One Keynote address

Mr Alberto Calderon, Managing Director and CEO, Orica Limited

Facilitator: Ms Stephanie Shannon, Analyst, Goldman Sachs

10:00 - 11:00 Session Two Ms Claire Rogers, CEO, World Vision Australia

Facilitator: Ms Emma Poole

11:00 - 11:30 Morning tea

11:30 - 12:30 Session Three The Right Hon the Lord Mayor Robert Doyle AC, Lord Mayor, City of Melbourne

Facilitator: Mr Omar Hassoun

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch with corporate table hosts Ms Melanie Alforque, President, Faculty Young Alumni Committee

2:30 - 4:00 Session Four Ms Abigail Forsyth, Managing Director and Co-Founder, KeepCup

Mr Roshan Ghadamian, Founder, The Baby Club

Ms Morgan Koegel, CEO, One Girl

Facilitator: Ms Leanne Wang

4:00 - 4:20 Close of event Mr Will Broughton, Executive Director, Goldman Sachs

Professor Jeff Borland

4:20 - 5:00 Closing Networking Reception Hosted by Goldman Sachs

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

ALBERTO CALDERON

Alberto was appointed Managing Director and CEO of Orica in May 2015. He has been a Board member of the company since 2013.

Alberto’s executive experience includes leadership roles across the mining, petroleum, energy and electricity sectors. Prior to joining the Orica Board, Alberto was an executive with the world’s leading diversified mining company, BHP Billiton. During his time with BHP Billiton, Alberto held a number of key leadership positions, including Group Executive and Chief Executive Aluminium, Nickel and Corporate Development (2011 – 2013), Group Executive and Chief Commercial Officer (2007 – 2011, with responsibility for acquisitions and divestments, marketing, supply and information management) and President Diamonds and Specialty Products (2006 – 2007).

Alberto was also Chief Executive Officer at Cerrejón Coal Company, an integrated thermal coal mine in his home country of Colombia (2002 – 2006), and at the Colombian oil company, Ecopetrol (1999 – 2002).

Prior to this, Alberto held senior leadership positions in the International Monetary Fund and the Colombian government, and has been a Board member of a range of private, public and non-government organisations.

Alberto holds a PhD in Economics, a Master of Philosophy in Economics and a Master of Economics from Yale University, a Juris Doctor in Law and Bachelor of Economics from Andes University in Colombia.

Alberto was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. He has two children.

CLAIRE ROGERS

World Vision Australia CEO Claire Rogers is a social innovator with a proven track record of strategising and delivering major change initiatives, helping organisations adapt to the tech-disrupted economy, and aligning physical and digital execution to maximise opportunities.

In her previous role as head of ANZ Australia’s digital banking, Claire spearheaded the bank’s digital channels transformation, and is recognised for her capacity to grow customer facing business across both physical and digital channels.

Chair of Ridley Theological College for the past eight years, Claire has long had a passion for equal opportunity for all, and understands the challenges facing not-for-profits as they adapt to the new economy.

Claire is passionate about creative and agile engagement with World Vision supporters. She sees the digital revolution as an exciting opportunity to reach new generations who want to fight global poverty as well as lifting the experience for existing donors.

Claire is a member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) Board. She has also volunteered as a mentor for Springboard Enterprises, supporting women entrepreneurs as they take concepts to market in the technology and digital sectors.

Claire received an MBA in General Management, International Studies, Leadership from the University of Melbourne - Melbourne Business School in 1995, and earned her BA in English Literature, Mathematics and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.

Claire is married with two children, and lives in Melbourne.

LORD MAYOR ROBERT DOYLE AC

Robert Doyle AC was elected in 2008, 2012 and 2016 and is the longest serving Lord Mayor of Melbourne.

Robert Doyle is a Principal at The Nous Group, a management consultancy business based in Melbourne and since 2007 has been Chairman of Melbourne Health (The Royal Melbourne Hospital).

Robert is President of the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, Chairman of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Foundation and a Trustee of the Shrine of Remembrance. Robert is also an Ambassador for Odyssey House, an Ambassador for SecondBite, an event champion for Field of Women, an Ambassador for the White Ribbon Day Foundation, an Ambassador for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foun-dation and an ex-officio Board mem-ber of the Cancer Council Victoria, ex-officio Co-Vice President of the Royal Humane Society of Australia and an ex-officio member of the Melbourne Art Trust, while also including Honorary President of the Melbourne Region of the Scout Association and a Board member of the Plumbing Industry Climate Action Centre (PICAC) Ltd.

In 2010 Robert was made a Fellow of Monash University and in 2016 was conferred with an Honorary Doctor of Laws, also from Monash University.

The 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours List saw Robert awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).

Robert is a committee member of the United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities (UNACLA). Robert is an Advisory Board Member of the World Economic Forum (Davos).

A Member of Victoria’s Parliament for 14 years, Robert was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Liberal Party for four years.

ABIGAIL FORSYTH

Abigail’s entrepreneurial spirit was kick started as an eleven-year-old, selling sandwiches in the business park where her father worked. Following a successful career as a solicitor, that spirit resurfaced when Abigail and her brother Jamie started a cafe chain in Melbourne. Alarmed by the amount of disposable packaging being wasted, Abigail developed KeepCup, the world’s first barista-standard reusable cup.

Today, more than 5 million people around the world are KeepCup converts, helping to divert more than 3.5 billion disposable cups from landfill. Abigail has opened offices and warehouses in London (UK) and Los Angeles (USA) to service growing consumer demand in over 65 countries around the world, but the business has stayed loyal to its roots. KeepCup’s HQ is located in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, where Abigail lives with her husband and children.

ROSHAN GHADAMIAN

Roshan Ghadamian is an experienced entrepreneur who firmly believes that entrepreneurship and leadership are qualities that can be learned and are requisite skillsets to building something of enduring value. He co-founded Rozibaby, an online re-configurable and customisable stroller business in 2012 which sold in 6 countries, went on to win Product of the Year and feature on prime time TV shows. Rozibaby pioneered a self-funded business model in the baby industry growing at 10% month on month before quality issues forced its closure in 2015.

Rosh has since completed a Masters of Entrepreneurship at the Wade Institute in 2016 on scholarship where he has been working with a team to bootstrap the concept again as TheBabyClub on a global scale and pursue other opportunities. Apart from this venture, Rosh has also been giving back as a member of the Alumni Council for the Faculty of Business and Economics and is passionate about innovation and business.

MORGAN KOEGEL

At the age of 25, Morgan Koegel is not only the youngest member of the One Girl team, but also its CEO. One Girl is an organisation committed to educating girls across Sierra Leone and Uganda through programs that target gender inequality and factors that keep women out of the classroom. Previously Morgan has been the Sector Development Manager of Prison Legal Education and Assistance (PLEA) where she worked in prisons across Victoria, and CEO of Engage Education, a not-for-profit keeping Australian students from low socio-economic backgrounds in school. She is a passionate believer in the power of education and the capacity for young people to do anything they set their mind to. Morgan studied her Bachelor in Arts and the Juris Doctor (Law) at the University of Melbourne.

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES continued

PROFESSOR PAUL JENSEN

Paul Jensen was appointed as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics on 1 October 2016. He leads curriculum, program development, student support, knowledge transfer and collaboration with other faculties. He is responsible for Faculty academic staff matters.

Paul’s current research interests are innovation, science policy, and technology markets. Much of his research has a strong public policy focus, and has been published in leading international journals such as RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, National Tax Journal, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law & Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Economics Letters, Health Economics, and Industrial and Corporate Change. He has undertaken commissioned research for IBM, the OECD, the European Commission, Asialink and the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.

PROFESSOR JEFF BORLAND

Jeff Borland is Truby Williams Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne where he has worked since 1988. He has a BA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in Economics from Yale University.

In 2010 he was visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University. Jeff has been co-organiser of the Future Leaders Forum since its inception in 2007.

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“The Forum was very insightful and inspiring. Being able to hear from other great leaders gave

me a broader understanding about leadership and how

I could adopt leadership practices in the future”.

Student participant, 2016 Future Leaders Forum

“It was great to hear about leadership from a wide range of speakers, this allowed us to see how leadership can be applied in different settings”.

Student participant, 2016 Future Leaders Forum

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