Dr Martin Parkinson AC PSM has extensive advisory experience having served the Australian Government and Prime Ministers on all facets of economic, social, foreign, defence and national security policies for almost forty years. He has also been a member of Prime Minister Abbott’s Business Advisory Council, Prime Minister Gillard’s Australia’s Asian Century Strategic Advisory Board, the Policy Committee of Australia’s leading domestic think tank, the Grattan Institute, and the Australian Federal Police Future Directions Advisory Board. Dr Parkinson established Australia’s first Department of Climate Change in 2007, which subsequently became the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. The Department covered policy, program and service delivery, regulatory responsibilities and international negotiations. He also led the development of Australia’s emissions trading scheme. Dr Parkinson became chancellor of Macquarie University in October 2019. He was awarded a Public Service Medal in 2008 and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2017 for eminent services to the Australian community through leadership in public sector roles, to innovative government administration and high level program delivery, to the development of economic policy, and to climate change strategy.
