Steven Michael Skala (born 6 October 1955 in

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...

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) is an Australian investment banker, company director, lawyer and philanthropist.

Biography

Mr Skala has a distinguished career of service including on the boards of private, not-for-profit and government organizations and has more than 35 years’ experience in the law, business and banking. He was appointe
Chair of the CEFC
in July 2017. He is the Vice Chairman Australia of Deutsche Bank AG, a position he has held since 2004. A former Chairman of Film Australia Limited, Wilson Group Limited, Hexima Limited, the King Island Company Limited and Blue Chilli Technology Pty Limited, he is also a former Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Channel Ten Group of Companies and Max Capital Group Limited. Prior to becoming an investment banker, Mr Skala was for almost 20 years a senior Partner at the law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler and Head of its Corporate and Commercial practice. Earlier, Mr Skala was for three years a Partner of the Brisbane law firm Morris Fletcher and Cross (now Minter Ellison). He has Arts and Law (Honours) degrees from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford. Active beyond banking and commerce, he is Chairman of the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Deputy Chairman of the General Sir John Monash Foundation, a Director of The Centre for Independent Studies and a Member of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. His other not-for-profit roles have included being Chairman of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Deputy Chairman (Vice President) of the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, a Director of the Australian Ballet and a Founding Panel Member of Adara Advisors Pty Ltd. On 26 January 2010 Mr Skala was appointed an

Officer of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

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. Mr Skala wa
appointed
Chair of the Board of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation with effect from 7 August 2017 for five years.

Cricket

As a student at

Wadham College, Oxford Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...

, Skala played two first-class

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

matches for the university, and also appeared in two

List A cricket List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...

matches for the

Combined Universities The British Universities cricket team was a cricket team whose players were drawn from university students studying in Great Britain. The team played under the title of Combined Universities until 1995. The team played List A cricket from 1975 t ...

side which at that time included players from Oxford and

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

Universities only. He was a right-handed lower-order batsman and wicketkeeper.

References

External links

ABC Profile
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