Donald Robert Argus AC CPA SF (born 1 August 1938) is an Australian businessman, chairman of Bank of America Australia advisory board and member of Monash University's Monash Business School advisory board.
Argus joined the board of BHP in 1996, assuming the role of chairman in 1999, at which time the market capitalisation was A$17.28 billion.
During his stewardship he oversaw the formation of a dual listed companies (DLC)[2] structure between BHP and Anglo–Dutch miner Billiton and at the time of his retirement in 2010, BHP Billiton had a combined market capitalisation of A$226.5 billion.
Argus was also co-chair of the Policy Transition Group on Mining Resources Rent Tax for the Australian Government (2010)[3] and chaired what was to become known as the “Argus Review” into the Australian Cricket Team's performance commissioned by Cricket Australia (2011).
[5] Argus is a senior fellow (SF) of Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia), a Fellow of Certified Practising Accountants Australia (CPA) and an alumnus of Harvard Business School (AMP).