Nominated for the Western Australian Export Industry Awards as a finalist in three categories for Kirrikin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"id":"craig-james","title":"Craig James","content":"Craig is married with three children in their early 20s and currently lives in Huntley\u2019s Cove, just to the north of Sydney. Chief interest outside work is Masters athletics, basically sprints.<\/p>\n
His current role is Chief Economist, CommSec, interpreting \u2018big picture\u2019 economic and financial trends for customers, clients and staff.<\/p>\n
CommSec is known for innovative, \u2018user friendly\u2019 reports including State of the States, the CommSec iPhone Index and CommSec Home Size report.<\/p>\n
As well as providing presentations to staff and clients and commentaries on financial and economic trends, Craig appears regularly in the electronic and print media.<\/p>\n
Craig has worked in banking, finance and journalism for around 38 years and holds both Bachelor and Master degrees in Commerce (Economics).<\/p>\n
Both degrees were undertaken at University of NSW.<\/p>\n"},{"id":"bernard-salt","title":"Bernard Salt AM","content":"
Bernard Salt is a social commentator, a newspaper columnist, a business advisor and a published author. He has also been an adjunct professor at the Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Business School since 2012. Bernard is based in Melbourne and built his career as a Partner in corporate advisory by founding KPMG Demographics.<\/p>\n
It is also fair to say that Bernard Salt has popularised \u201cdemography\u201d in Australia and beyond through his columns and media appearances. He has published six popular and best-selling books on social and cultural change starting with The Big Shift: Welcome to the third Australian culture released in 2002.<\/p>\n
For the better part of 20 years Bernard has been a regular on the Australian corporate speaking circuit addressing business groups and others on the implications of social change. He argues that demographic factors set the context for popular and consumer culture.<\/p>\n
He has popularised terms like \u2018seachange\u2019 and \u2018treechange\u2019 as well as \u2018the man drought\u2019 and more recently the term \u2018smashed avocado\u2019 which he made famous, or infamous, globally.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining KPMG in the late 1990s Bernard worked with a predecessor firm of PwC and prior to that he worked with a boutique consulting firm based in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
Bernard Salt is a school teacher (history and geography) by training although he never taught; instead of teaching he completed a Master of Arts degree in geography at Monash University and then went into consulting.<\/p>\n
Bernard was born and raised in the Western Victorian township of Terang. Since retiring from KPMG in 2017 Bernard established The Demographics Group which is a boutique consulting practice servicing the needs of corporate Australia.<\/p>\n
In the 2017 Australia Day honours list, Bernard Salt was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his services to demography. Bernard has been a regular visitor to, speaker for, and supporter of Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ since 2012.<\/p>\n"},{"id":"sharon-warburton","title":"Sharon Warburton","content":"
After an executive career in strategy and finance roles based in Perth, Sydney, London and Abu Dhabi, Sharon is now a full-time Non-Executive Company Director.\u00a0 She is the 2014 WA Telstra Business Woman of the Year and was named in the 2015 Westpac AFR 100 Women of Influence.<\/p>\n
She joined the board of Fortescue Metals Group (FMG, one of Australia\u2019s largest listed companies), in 2013 as a Non-Executive Director.\u00a0 She is now the Co-Deputy Chairman and she also chairs the Fortescue Remuneration & Nominations Committee.\u00a0 She is a Non-Executive Director for ASX Listed WorleyParsons Limited, NEXTDC Limited and Gold Road Resources Limited; as well as a Director of the fund raising NFP Foundation for the Perth Children\u2019s Hospital.\u00a0 She is also a part time member of the Takeovers Panel, a member of the WA Rhodes Scholarship selection panel and the Patron of the Women in MBA Scholarship Programme at Curtin.<\/p>\n
Sharon was the inaugural Chairman of the Federal Government funded Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) in 2016\/17.\u00a0 The NAIF offers up to $5 billion over 5 years in concessional finance to encourage and complement private sector investment in infrastructure that benefits Northern Australia. This may include developments in airports, communications, energy, ports, rail and water.<\/p>\n
Educated in Exmouth and Perth, Sharon holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. \u00a0She is also a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Building.<\/p>\n
Sharon is Mum to 9-year-old Chloe.\u00a0 She champions flexibility, diversity and work life balance and places a high priority on sharing her own experiences.<\/p>\n"}]}]},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/advisory-profile-terry-agnew-129x172-1-5.jpeg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Randall","last_name":"Bak","display_name":"Randall Bak"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3977\/revisions\/5288"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}