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Mark Birrell |
| Special Counsel |
| B.Ec, LLB |
| Melbourne |
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Biography
Mark is a lawyer and company director with significant strategic and public policy experience. As the national leader of the firm's infrastructure industry group, he plays a key advisory and coordination role for Minter Ellison.
Mark works in the fields of infrastructure, project management and finance. He can draw upon his previous experience as a Cabinet Minister and Upper House Leader in the Victorian Government – as Minister for Major Projects and then Minister for Industry, Science & Technology Mark had extensive experience in PPPs, capital works projects and industry programs. The Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Docklands, the Sports & Aquatic Centre and Melbourne Museum projects were all Mark's responsibility, together with heritage projects like the Regent Theatre and urban renewal initiatives like Beacon Cove. He served on Cabinet Committees for projects such as CityLink and the energy privatisation program.
In 2003, Mark was appointed by the Australian Government as a non-executive director of Australia Post (and in 2007 became Deputy Chairman of the Board) and in 2004 the Victorian Government had him chair a two year consultative review of part of Melbourne's public transport system. In 2007 he became the Chairman of Evans & Peck management consultants. Recently he was appointed by the Australian Government to serve on the statutory board of Infrastructure Australia.
He is the Chairman of Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, the nation's peak infrastructure organisation, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. He also serves on the Board of VECCI. Previously he has been a Director of the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust and the National Council for the Centenary of Federation.
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