JOHN H C COLVIN FAICD

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

John is chief executive officer and managing director of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He commenced in this position on 1 September 2008.

Prior to joining AICD, John was the Head of the Sydney office of Freehills and the founding partner of Freehills’ Sydney Employee Relations practice. At Freehills, John was well known for his work with chairmen, boards, directors and senior executives on employee relations issues including corporate governance. He also had extensive experience at Freehills in structuring, drafting and negotiating CEO and senior executive agreements.

John was a non-executive director of Sydney Water from 1993 to 1997, a director and chairman of AWT and he remains chairman of the New South Wales Cancer Patients Assistance Society (Can Assist).

John took a year’s leave from Freehills in 1995 to become an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of New South Wales. He also taught at Sydney University’s Law School on a part-time basis on several occasions.

He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from Sydney University, a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Master of Arts (Law) from Oxford University.