[2][3][4] He was raised in Dunkeld, Victoria, where his father, John Norman Myers, worked as a butcher following his service as a stoker in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve during World War II.
[2] He has represented George Pell, Kerry Stokes, Lloyd Williams, Alan Bond, John Elliott, Andrew Forrest and Gina Rinehart as well as Citibank and BHP.
[6][3][4] He sits on the board of directors of Grupa Żywiec, a Polish brewery in which he is now a small shareholder, alongside investor John Higgins.
[3][4] He also owns land in the Kimberley and the Tipperary Station near Adelaide River in the Northern Territory, which he purchased from businessman Warren Anderson.
[5] He helped found the Grattan Institute, a non-partisan public policy think tank, and serves as its chairman.
[10][11] He and Maria Myers are two of the donors to the trust that funds the Peter Steele Poetry Award, a scholarship available to PhD students in the Faculty of Arts at the university.
[22] In 2016 he was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia for "eminent service to the community through philanthropic leadership in support of major visual arts, higher education, medical research and not-for-profit organisations, to the law, and to professional learning programs".