Senior Advisors Team
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Mark Johnson AO
Senior Advisor, Sydney
+61 2 9221 5133
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Mark Johnson AO
Senior Advisor, Sydney
Mark joined Gresham in 2011 as Senior Advisor and is based in the Sydney office.
He has spent more than fifty years in banking and corporate finance and retired as Deputy Chairman of Macquarie Bank in 2007 and as Chairman of Macquarie Infrastructure Group in 2010. He has also served as Chairman of AGL Energy, Alinta Energy and Guinness Peat Group, and been a Director of Westfield Group and One Market Limited.
Previous affiliations include Chairman of the ASIC External Advisory Panel, Chairman of the US Study Centre Foundation at Sydney University, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the APEC Study Centre at RMIT University and director, AsiaLink. He has recently retired from the Board of Governors of the Institute for International Trade at the University of Adelaide, and the Advisory Council of SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong. He is Chairman of Dateline Resources, a junior gold development company; and a Non-Executive Director of Stonehouse Corporation, a funds management business.
Mark was Chairman of the Australian Financial Centre Task Force in 2009-10, an Australian Government initiative directed towards ensuring efficiency and competitiveness in the financial services sector. From 2002-2013 he was one of the three Australian representatives on the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) and Chairman of the APEC CEO Summit in Sydney in 2007. He was Chairman of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute from 2005 to 2008.
Mark was awarded the Order of Australia (AO) in 2010 and is a Commander of the Order of the Crown (Tonga) and a Life Governor of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) from the University of Melbourne, and an MBA from Harvard. He is a Fellow of the AICD.
+61 2 9221 5133
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia

Geoff Raby AO
Senior Advisor, Sydney and Beijing
+61 2 9221 5133
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Geoff Raby AO
Senior Advisor, Sydney and Beijing
Geoff is a Senior Advisor to Gresham Partners Limited based in Sydney and Beijing. Dr Geoff Raby was Australia’s Ambassador to China from 2007 to 2011.
Geoff was the Deputy Secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) from 2002 to 2006. He has held a number of senior positions in DFAT, including First Assistant Secretary, International Organisations and Legal Division (2001-2002), Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organisation, Geneva (1998-2001), First Assistant Secretary, Trade Negotiations Division (1995-1998), and APEC Ambassador (2002-2004). He was head of the Trade Policy Issues Division in the OECD in Paris during 1993-95.
Geoff holds non-executive director positions with ASX-listed Yancoal, OceanaGold and Netlinkz. He was previously a director with Fortescue Metals Group and Isentia. Additionally, he is Chairman of VisaAsia, Gallery of NSW, Murdoch University’s Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Board and Australia-China Institute of Art and Culture’s Advisory Board. He holds a number of other corporate, advisory and not-for-profit roles.
Geoff is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Asia Society. He holds an Honours Degree in Economics, a Masters in Economics and a PhD from La Trobe University. In 2015, Dr. Raby was part of the consultative committee for the draft of Australia's National Strategy for International Education. In recognition of his contributions to advancing relations between Australia and China, he was made Friendship Ambassador to Shandong Province and an Honorary Citizen of Chengdu City.
Geoff was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in June 2019.
+61 2 9221 5133
Aurora Place
Level 25
88 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
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