Mr Paul McClintock AO (Chairman)

Mr Paul McClintock is Chairman of the COAG Reform Council, Medibank Private Limited, Thales Australia, I-MED Network and the Institute of Virology. He is also a Director of Perpetual Limited.

From July 2000 to March 2003 he was Secretary to Cabinet and Head of the Cabinet Policy Unit in the Australian Government, reporting directly to the Prime Minister as Chairman of Cabinet with responsibility for supervising Cabinet processes. As Head of the Cabinet Policy Unit, Mr McClintock was the Prime Minister’s most senior personal adviser on strategic directions in policy formulation.

Mr McClintock’s former positions include Chairman of Intoll Management Limited, the Expert Panel of the Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund, Symbion Health, Affinity Health, Ashton Mining, Plutonic Resources and the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. He was also a Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a Commissioner of the Health Insurance Commission and a member of the Australia–Malaysia Institute Executive Committee.

Mr McClintock graduated in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney and is an honorary fellow of the Faculty of Medicine of that University, and a Life Governor of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research.