Chairman

Mr Mark Johnson

Mr Johnson is the immediate-past deputy chairman of Macquarie Bank Limited where he has spent most of his career working in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and underwritings and, more recently, helping to establish Macquarie's world wide resources group. Mark is chairman of Macquarie Infrastructure Group and chairman of AGL Energy. Mark is one of the Prime Minister's three personal representatives to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). He is a Life Governor of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute.

Mr Johnson was appointed as Chairman of the Council in August 2005.

Deputy Chairman

Major General Adrian Clunies-Ross (Retd) AO, MBE

Major General Clunies-Ross had a distinguished career in the Army and is now Chairman of the Australian War Memorial Council. In 2000 he was a member of The Government's White Paper Community Consultation Team for Defence.

Members

Major General Peter Abigail (Retd) AO

Peter Abigail joined ASPI as Director in April 2005. In February 2007 he was appointed to the ASPI Council as Executive Director. Prior to that he spent 37 years in the Army. Following promotion to Major General in December 1996, he served in a range of senior leadership appointments in the Defence Organisation.

The Honourable Jim Carlton AO

Mr Carlton was Minister for Health in the Fraser Government and Shadow Minister for Defence in 1989-1990. He served as Secretary-General of the Australian Red Cross from 1994-2001.

He currently serves on the Boards of PNG Sustainable Development Program Limited and the Australian New Zealand School of Government. Additionally he is a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group.

Professor Alan Dupont

Professor Alan Dupont is the foundation Michael Hintze Chair of International Security at the University of Sydney and Director of the Centre for International Security Studies. He has worked on Australian defence and Asian security issues for more than thirty years as an Army officer, strategist, diplomat, policy analyst and scholar. 

Mr Stephen Loosley

Mr Loosley is the nominee of the Prime Minister. In 2000 he was a member of The Government's Community Consultation Team for the Defence White Paper. Mr Loosley was elected to the Australian Senate in 1990 and retired in 1995. He is a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal. In March 2006 Stephen took up a senior executive role involving strategic and corporate advice at Babcock and Brown

Brigadier Jim Wallace (Retd) AM

Brig Wallace served with distinction in the Australian Army for many years after graduating from Duntroon, the British Army Staff College and the Australian College of Defence and Strategic Studies. He commanded the Special Air Services Regiment and the Army's mechanised brigade, and served with the United National in the Middle East. He is a respected commentator on defence and strategic matters and brings a valuable perspective to the Council as a recently serving and highly credible senior Australian Defence Force officer.