Ian Kemish

[7] He served earlier as Head of the Southeast Asia and Consular Divisions at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and in several other embassies in the Indo Pacific and Europe.

His time as head of the consular service also included the September 11 attacks in the United States and a range of other high profile crises and individual cases.

[5] He oversaw Newcrest's adoption of an overarching sustainability framework, greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and new biodiversity protection standards [1] Archived 25 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine.

Kemish is a co-founder and director of Forridel, a strategic advisory business which helps a range of private and public sector clients negotiate challenges in the international environment, with a particular focus on the Indo Pacific region.

He is the chair of both the Kokoda Track Foundation, which promotes health, livelihood, education and leadership in PNG, and 3rd Space, which provides services to the homeless in his home city of Brisbane.

Kemish was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his leading role in the Australian government's international task force that responded to the 2002 Bali bombings.