CURRICULUM VITAE

As CEO and chairman of major financial institutions, Nicholas Whitlam’s career has embraced most aspects of banking, insurance and superannuation.

He is presently a non-executive director/board member of the Lifetime Care & Support Authority (where he serves as chairman), Port Kembla Port Corporation (chairman), the WorkCover Fund (deputy chairman), and WorkCover NSW (deputy chairman). He is also chairman of Whitlam & Co, his family company.

From 1996 to 2002, Mr Whitlam was President of National Roads and Motorists’ Association Limited, which, with two million members, is Australia’s largest mutual. As Chairman of NRMA Insurance Limited, Australia’s largest general insurance company, from 1996 to 2001, he led the process by which it was demutualized and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (where it now trades as IAG).

Mr Whitlam started his banking career at JP Morgan in 1969, working first in New York and then in London. From 1975 to 1978, he worked with American Express in Sydney and then Hong Kong. From 1978 to 1980, he worked with Banque Paribas in Hong Kong.

He was Managing Director and CEO of the State Bank of New South Wales from 1981 to 1987. In 1987, together with Malcolm Turnbull and Neville Wran, he established the investment bank Whitlam Turnbull & Co, where he was joint CEO. Since 1990 he has managed Whitlam & Co.

Mr Whitlam was a member of the Sydney Olympic Games Review Committee in 1990 and then the Sydney Olympic Games Bid Committee 1991-1993. He was Chairman of Tattersall’s Club 1993-1996 and a Director of the Australian Sports Foundation 1986-1995. For the Sydney 2000 Olympics Mr Whitlam was the Olympic Attaché for Hong Kong.

He was Chairman of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra 1991-1996. Mr Whitlam served on the board of the Australian Graduate School of Management from 1981 to 1997 (1986-1997 as chairman). He is currently a Trustee of the Steiner Pohl Foundation and a Governor of the Curran Foundation at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney.

Mr Whitlam holds degrees from Harvard College (AB cum laude, 1967) and London Business School (MSc, 1969) and was awarded an honorary doctorate (Hon D.Univ) by The University of New South Wales in 1996. He was born in Sydney and attended Sydney High School. Mr Whitlam is married to Judy (née Frye); they have three children and live in a coastal village south of Sydney.

Date of birth: 6 December 1945.