Steven Skala

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Steven Michael Skala AO (born 6 October 1955 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) is the Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank for Australia and New Zealand, and a member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's board of directors since 6 October 2006. He is also a director of the Australian Ballet and the neo-liberal/conservative think tank, the Centre for Independent Studies. He is the deputy chairman of the Walter and Eliza Hall institute of medical research. He is a director of Wilson stockbrokers, the Nasdeq listed reinsurance company Maxre, Hexima Ltd. and chairman of Film Australia. He was formerly head of The Centre for contemporary arts in Melbourne. He was for 20 years a partner at the Melbourne law firm of Arnold Bloch Leibler where he headed its banking financing and takeover sections.

On 26 January 2010 Skala was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the visual and performing arts through roles supporting wider community access, to business and commerce, and to the community through the promotion of educational opportunities for young Australians.^[1]

Cricket

As a student at Oxford University, Skala played two first-class cricket matches for the university, and also appeared in two List A cricket matches for the Combined Universities side which at that time included players from Oxford and Cambridge Universities only.^[2] He was a right-handed lower-order batsman and wicketkeeper.

References

↑ "Steven Skala AO". Australian Honours Database. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
↑ "Player Profile: Steven Skala". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 April 2013.

External links

ABC Profile

v t e ABC Board

Current members	Mark Scott Steven Skala Julianne Schultz Cheryl Bart James Spigelman

Past members	Janet Albrechtsen Ron Brunton John Gallagher Peter Hurley Maurice Newman Keith Windschuttle

Persondata
Name	Skala, Steven
Alternative names
Short description	Australian businessman
Date of birth	6 October 1955
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.