Jonathan Fraser Shier (born 18 October 1947) is an Australian businessman and media executive.
[1] He was educated at Barker College,[2] Geelong Grammar School and Monash University (LLB BEcon).
Shier returned to Australia in 2000 and is best known there for his controversial tenure as managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from March 2000 to December 2001.
[4] Others saw Shier as addressing a perceived left-wing bias at the ABC by establishing programmes such as Insiders, which were intended to embrace a wider range of political views.
From 2008 until 2011, Shier was also the executive chairman of Fox Legal, a company that intended to acquire some eighteen specialist law firms and float them on the Australian Securities Exchange.