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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Global Speakers Series

David Morgan, BHP Billiton

 

David Morgan BEc, MSc, PhD, 61, is Director of BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton Plc and Chairman of J C Flowers & Co. Australia. Dr. Morgan was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Westpac Banking Corporation from March 1999 until January 2008. He has extensive experience in the financial sector, having worked in the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC in the 1970s and the Australian Federal Treasury in the 1980s where he headed all major areas before being appointed Senior Deputy Secretary. Dr Morgan joined Westpac in 1990 where he had responsibility for all major operating divisions including, Westpac Financial Services, Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Institutional Banking and International Banking.

Selected Articles

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Ease reins on banks: says ex-chief of Westpac. The Australian, 2/28/09
Former Westpac chief executive David Morgan has warned the Rudd Government to wind back its intervention in the financial sector or risk a return to the safe but "extremely stodgy" banking system that existed before deregulation in the early 1980s.
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Rio bid failure may hasten BHP succession. The Daily Telegraph, 12/1/08
The mining group BHP Billiton is expected to dust down its succession strategy after questions were raised about whether legendary chairman Don Argus should stay on following the collapse of the firm's $62bn ( pounds 40.3bn) bid for Rio Tinto.
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J.C. Flowers & Co. Llc; J.C. Flowers & Co. Appoints David Morgan Operating Partner. Business & Finance Week, 4/4/08
Dr. Morgan is a director of BHP Billiton and retired as Chief Executive of Westpac Banking Corp. in January 2008 following almost nine years in that position.
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David Morgan- Reflections on a Life in the Economic Fast Lane Listen to Podcast

Selected Websites

BHP Billiton

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