Since 1998 NAB has operated a forum with community organisations as a means to keep in touch with community issues facing the bank in Australia. The original stakeholder forum now operates as a formal eight-member Community Advisory Council.
The role of the council is as follows.
To provide input into the community activities and approach of NAB in Australia
To receive reports from NAB on its community activities
To bring to the attention of NAB important community issues facing the bank
To provide feedback on how NAB is addressing community issues facing the bank
The council meets quarterly and first met in August 2006. It includes three representatives from NAB and has the ability to commission independent research of matters important to the council. An honorarium is paid to members of the council, excluding the NAB representatives.
Tim Costello
Tim Costello (Chair) is Chief Executive of World Vision Australia, Australia's largest overseas aid organisation. Tim has long been recognised for articulating the social conscience for Australians having led many debates on international and domestic issues, including gambling, urban poverty, homelessness, reconciliation and human rights. Tim served as a Baptist Minister from 1987 to 2004. In 2004, he was named Victorian of the Year and in 2005 was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He was Victorian Australian of the Year in 2006.
Ahmed Fahour
Ahmed Fahour, NAB Executive Director and CEO, Australia, has almost 20 years experience in international economics and financial services, including corporate and investment banking, consumer banking and investment management, predominantly with Citigroup. From 1987 to 1999 he was employed by the Boston Consulting Group. Ahmed was appointed as CEO, Australia in September 2004. He is also an honorary business ambassador for Melbourne's North.
Daniel Gilbert
Daniel Gilbert is a non-executive NAB director and co-founder of the Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin. Daniel has extensive involvement, through not-for-profit organisations, in social justice issues and the arts.
Betty Hounslow
Betty Hounslow has worked in a wide range of community organisations for over 30 years. Her current position is Deputy Chief Executive of The Fred Hollows Foundation. She is involved across all areas of the organisation - from the development of international blindness prevention and domestic Indigenous health programs, to fundraising, education and advocacy initiatives and finance and administration. From 1994 to 2001, Betty was the Director of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) - the peak body for the community welfare sector in Australia. Photo by Peter Carrette.
Marilyn Webster
Marilyn Webster is the Manager of the Policy and Research Unit at Good Shepherd Youth & Family Service, a community agency with a long history of action and advocacy for people on the margins. She has worked for over 20 years with government and church organisations in direct service and in program and policy areas. Marilyn serves on boards including the International Council of International Social Service, MacKillop Family Services, Victorian Council of Social Service and ACOSS.
Mark Yettica-Paulson
Mark Yettica-Paulson is Assistant Director for Training at the Office of the Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations. Formerly the Chief Executive Officer for the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre, Mark has a number of years experience in community leadership and youth leadership development. He has worked in church and educational organisations and is a founding Trustee of the National Indigenous Youth Movement of Australia. Mark is also on the Edmund Rice Business Ethics Committee.
Greg Sutherland
Greg Sutherland is Regional General Manager Strategy and Marketing at NAB. He is responsible for strategy development, marketing and corporate affairs in the Australian business. This portfolio enables critical linkages between customer insight, business strategy creation and distribution and external marketing and employee communications. Prior to joining NAB, Greg was a Partner with The Boston Consulting Group with extensive experience advising and supporting corporate turnarounds and transformations in the USA, Europe and Asia.
Andrew Thorburn
Andrew Thorburn is Executive General Manager Retail Banking Australia at NAB. He leads a team of 11,000 people located in approximately 800 Australian stores, contact centres and head office locations, servicing over 3.3 million NAB customers. Andrew is responsible for all operations related to the Retail Bank including products, services and operations as well as for the ongoing development of NAB's personal banking strategy. Before joining NAB, Andrew spent more than two decades in the Australian and New Zealand financial services industries.
Steve Bracks
The Hon Steve Bracks is one of Victoria’s longest serving Premiers, entering Parliament as the Member for Williamstown in 1994. As Victoria’s 44th Premier, Mr Bracks became one of the State’s most successful Premiers winning three consecutive elections. After almost eight years as Premier, Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Mr Bracks retired in 2007. In addition to his work on NAB’s Community Advisory Council, Mr Bracks advises NAB on a range of corporate social responsibility issues in his role as Executive Adviser to the Group CEO.
Mr Bracks holds three major honorary positions, as an Adviser to the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste, Xanana Gusmao, as an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and as an Ambassador for the Victorian Opera company. He is also a Director of Jardine Lloyd Thomson Australia Board, a Senior Adviser to KPMG and Vice-Chairman of the AIMS Financial Group Advisory Board.
