Gary Francis Neat (born 27 October 1948) is an Australian business leader and company director.
[citation needed] Neat was a senior journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for 16 years, including assignments as a foreign correspondent in Asia during the 1970s in Indochina, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Philippines[2] and work as a political correspondent[3][4] including on Nationwide.
Neat is a former national president of the Australian Institute of Management,[6][7] of which he is a life fellow, and is chair of the ADSHAN Group.
[10] In politics, Neat was state director of the Liberal Party in Queensland for seven years beginning in 1982[5][11] and directed more than 20 election campaigns.
He was a member of the Liberal Party's Federal Executive and ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1987.