Catherine Brighid Livingstone, , (born 17 September 1955) is an Australian businesswoman who has held positions in the

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, CSIRO,

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and

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Professional

After finishing her degree in 1977, Livingstone joined the accountancy firm of Price Waterhouse, working in both Sydney and London. She then held several accounting and management roles at Nucleus Ltd, finally reaching the position of Chief Executive, Finance, before being made the CEO of one of its subsidiaries, Cochlear Limited, in 1994. A year later she floated the company for $125m on the Australian Stock Exchange. Livingstone has been an independent voting director of the Macquarie Bank and the Macquarie Group and a director of Future Directions International. She remains a non-executive director of

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and a member of the Business/Industry/Higher Education Collaboration Committee. Previously, she was the CSIRO chair from 2001 to 2006, director of the Sydney Institute from 1998 to 2005, director of the Rural Press Foundation, chair and director of the Australian Business Foundation from 2000 to 2005, and the chair of

from 2009 to 2016. On 22 January 2008, it was announced that Livingstone would be a member of the panel conducting the review of Australia's national innovation system. In March 2014, she was elected president of the

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for a two-year term, replacing

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. She was succeeded by

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in November, 2016. In 2014, she was elected a

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(FAA). In December 2015, Livingstone was announced as the successor to Professor Vicki Sara as the Chancellor of the

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(UTS). She officially became the Chancellor of UTS on 1 December 2016. Livingstone replaced David Turner as chairman of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in January 2017.

Awards

Livingstone was awarded the title of the Eisenhower Exchange Foundation Fellow for Australia in 1999.Eisenhower Exchange Foundation Fellow
, eisenhowerfellowships.org She became an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2008, "for service to the development of Australian science, technology and innovation policies, to the business sector through leadership and management roles and as a contributor to professional organisations".Officer of the Order of Australia
, ''It’s An Honour'', www.itsanhonour.gov.au, accessed 24-03-08

References

External links

Future Directions International

Australian Business Foundation
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