Panel Members
Mr Roger Beale AO
Roger Beale is a Senior Associate with the Allen Consulting Group. He has extensive experience at senior levels in national economic and environment policy, as well as in corporate governance in the private and public sectors. He held Commonwealth department head level posts in the environment, transport and prime ministerial portfolios, and is currently Chair of the ACT Electoral Commission, Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Institute of Governance and a director of a number of major companies.
Mr Andrew Inglis AM
Andrew Inglis is a South Australian grain farmer, former Deputy Chairman of the Quarantine Export Advisory Council (QEAC) and a member of the 1996 “Nairn Review” of quarantine. He is the current Chairman of the Future Farm Industries Cooperative Research Centre and is a former Chairman of Plant Health Australia. He has held a variety of positions in Australia’s grain industry and was a member of the National Petroleum Advisory Committee and the National Dryland Salinity Board.
Mr David Trebeck
David Trebeck is a commissioner of the National Water Commission and was a member of the Agriculture and Food Policy Reference Group which prepared a long term policy report for the Agriculture Minister in 2005. He is a former Deputy Executive Director of the National Farmers Federation and has dryland mixed farming interests in the Lachlan catchment in south western NSW. He is also a director of Graincorp, PrimeAg and Maersk Australia.
Dr Jeff Fairbrother AM
Jeff Fairbrother is a former Executive Director of the Australian Poultry Industries Association and the Australian Chicken Meat Federation. He has represented industry in a range of government and industry committees and has been heavily involved with the development of regulatory policies on animal health and welfare, food safety standards and quarantine and biosecurity matters.