Sir Roderick Howard Carnegie AC (born 27 November 1932) is a prominent Australian businessman, primarily working in the coal industry. Carnegie was born in November 1932 in Melbourne, eldest child and only son of Douglas and

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(née Allen). He was educated at Geelong Grammar,

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at the

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(B.Sc. 1954),

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(M.A. and Dip. Ag. Ec. 1957) and Harvard (M.B.A. 1959). In the late 1950s he was

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of the

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. In 1958 he became a consultant with McKinsey & Company Inc. in the United States, in 1963 he founded the Australian practice of McKinsey in Melbourne, and in 1967 he returned to New York to become a Director of the Company. He subsequently joined CRA Limited (now Rio Tinto) as Finance Director in 1972, served as Managing Director from 1974 to 1986, and as Chairman. Since1986, he has served as a director of several companies, including the Australian Advisory Board of General Motors, CSIRO, Business Council of Australia,

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and was Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Relations with Japan. He was awarded a knighthood, as a

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in the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours list ''In recognition of service to industry'', and in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours list he was awarded

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''In recognition of service to the promotion of innovative leadership and to the development of competitive practices in business, both national and international, and to the community, particularly in the health and arts fields.'' He was awarded a Centenary Medal ''for service to Australian society in resource development and management''. His current business activities include Chairman, Pacific Edge Group. He is a Fellow of Trinity College, Melbourne, and serves as Patron of the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carnegie, Roderick Howard 1932 births Living people Companions of the Order of Australia Australian Knights Bachelor Alumni of the University of Oxford Harvard Business School alumni People educated at Geelong Grammar School Businesspeople from Melbourne University of Melbourne alumni People educated at Trinity College (University of Melbourne) Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering McKinsey & Company people