Shane Stone AC is the chair of Iris Residential and its parent company Tribis, with which he has shared a 20-year association.
Mr Stone has substantial experience as a former director of entities in Australia and the United Kingdom, with annual turnovers exceeding $3.5 billion.
On being appointed chair of the Order of Australia Council at the beginning of 2018, he resigned from many of his directorships.
He was chief minister of the Northern Territory and federal president of the Liberal Party during the Howard Government. Prior to that, he was a barrister in Victoria and New South Wales, a legal practitioner in the Northern Territory, and received a Commission as Queens Counsel in 1997 as First Law Officer.
Mr Stone has an extensive background in philanthropy and is an alumnus of the Australian National University, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sturt Universities; and a former Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University. He was also an elected member and fellow of the Australian College of Educators; and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Institute of Management and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.
Mr Stone was made an Honorary Life Member of LAWASIA in 1996. He was conferred a Companion of the Order of Australia in June 2006, and also held awards from Indonesia and Malaysia.
