HON RICHARD COURT AC

Chairman, GRD Limited

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Richard Court was Premier and Treasurer of Western Australia from 1993 - 2001. He retired from Parliament after nineteen years as the Member for Nedlands. His Government led the LNG marketing push into new markets, the successful deregulation of the Western Australian gas markets and the successful privatisations of the SGIO, BankWest, AlintaGas, Westrail Freight and the DBNG pipeline. Currently he is Chairman of Resource Investment Strategy Consultants [RISC] and GRD Limited as well as a director on WesTrac Holdings Pty Ltd and Iron Ore Holdings Ltd. Richard Court also is a senior advisor at KPMG and a consultant to Australian Capital Equity. He was appointed Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia in June 2003 for service to the Western Australian Parliament and to the community.