Michael Bernard Easson AM (born 22 March 1955 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), is an Australian businessman and former trade union leader.
[1] In 1994, Easson resigned as secretary of the Labor Council after a botched candidacy for the Senate vacancy left by the resigning Graham Richardson and a falling out with Labor state secretary John Della Bosca, which was followed by a failed attempt to find a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Council, of which he had previously been dismissive.
[3] Easson joined the private sector in 1994, recruited by Sydney Olympic Bid Chief Rod McGeogh for law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth, and serving on various Boards, including as an independent Director on Macquarie's Industrial Property fund, a predecessor to the Goodman Group, the industrial property REIT.
He was educated at St Declan's Primary, Marist Brothers Penshurst and he matriculated at Sydney Technical High School in 1972.
In 1981 he completed a Trade Union Program at the Harvard Business School and completed management and finance programs at Stanford Business School in 1997, and more recently a Master of Science in sustainable development (with Distinction) from Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and a PhD in history from the University of New South Wales.