Richard James Barr Goyder AO (born 1960) is an Australian businessman and sporting administrator who is the current chairman of the

AFL Commission The AFL Commission is the official governing body of the Australian Football League Limited (AFL), its subsidiaries and controlled entities. Richard Goyder has been chairman since 4 April 2017, replacing Mike Fitzpatrick. It was formed in 198 ...

, the governing body of Australian Rules Football. He was previously CEO and managing director of

Wesfarmers Wesfarmers Limited is an Australian conglomerate, headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. It has interests predominantly in Australia and New Zealand, operating in retail, chemical, fertiliser, industrial and safety products. With revenue o ...

from 2005 to 2017. In October 2018, he became the new chairman of

Qantas Qantas Airways Limited ( ) is the flag carrier of Australia and the country's largest airline by fleet size, international flights, and international destinations. It is the world's third-oldest airline still in operation, having been founde ...

, replacing Leigh Clifford.

Personal life

Goyder was born at

Tambellup, Western Australia The townsite of Tambellup is located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 317 km south-east of Perth on the Great Southern Highway where it crosses the Gordon River. It is 23 km south of Broomehill. The area around Tam ...

, and was raised on his parents' farms at Tambellup and Broomehill.Julie-Anne Sprague
"Tambellup boy on the Wesfarmers' way"
''Farm Online'', 2 April 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2017. He boarded at

Hale School Hale School is an independent, Anglican day and boarding school for boys, located in Wembley Downs, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Named after the school founded by Bishop Mathew Blagden Hale in 1858, Hale School claims to be ...

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth i ...

, and then went on to the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilitie ...

, where he graduated with a

Bachelor of Commerce A Bachelor of Commerce (abbreviated BComm or BCom; also, ''baccalaureates commercii'') is an undergraduate degree in business, usually awarded in Canada, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South Africa, Myanmar, ...

degree.Russell Quinn
"Ups of being down, down"

PerthNow ''The Sunday Times'' is a tabloid Sunday newspaper published by Western Press Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Seven West Media, in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia. Founded as The West Australian Sunday Times, it was renamed The Sund ...

, 4 February 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2017. Goyder played amateur football for several teams in the WAAFL, but did not progress to higher levels. Goyder is married with four children. His son Matthew played WAFL football for Claremont. Goyder's main residence is in Mosman Park, WA (a riverside suburb of Perth), though he also owns a holiday home in Augusta and a farm of near Toodyay.

Business career

After graduating from university, Goyder worked in various positions at Tubemakers of Australia Ltd., an industrial conglomerate. He joined

in 1993, and was initially posted to the company's Business Development Department. He was made

managing director A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

of Wesfarmers Dalgety (a subsidiary focusing on rural merchandise) in 1999. Wesfarmers Dalgety merged with IAMA in 2001 to form Wesfarmers Landmark, and Goyder initially stayed on as managing director of the new entity. The following year, he was appointed finance director of the main Wesfarmers company.RICHARD GOYDER AO
Wesfarmers. Retrieved 15 February 2017. Goyder became deputy managing director and chief financial officer of Wesfarmers in 2004, and replaced

Michael Chaney Michael Alfred Chaney (born 15 April 1950) is an Australian businessman and former chancellor of the University of Western Australia. Early life Chaney was born in Perth on 15 April 1950. He was the third-youngest of seven children born to F ...

as CEO in July 2005. In 2007, he oversaw the purchase of Coles Group for A$19.3 billion, which was "the biggest and one of the riskiest acquisitions in Australian corporate history". This brought Coles Supermarkets,

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, and

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under the control of Wesfarmers. In 2014, Goyder was chosen to chair the B20 Summit in Sydney, a meeting of business leaders from the

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countries. He announced his intention to resign as CEO of Wesfarmers in February 2017, with Rob Scott being appointed as his successor. Goyder is currently the chairman of the Australian Football League,

Woodside Petroleum Woodside Energy Group Ltd (formerly Woodside Petroleum Ltd) is an Australian petroleum exploration and production company. Woodside is the operator of oil and gas production in Australia and also Australia's largest independent dedicated oil a ...

and

Football administration

Goyder served on the board of the

Fremantle Football Club The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of Fr ...

from 2006 to 2011, and then in September 2011 was appointed to the

. In February 2017, it was announced that he would succeed

Mike Fitzpatrick Michael Gerard Fitzpatrick (June 28, 1963 – January 6, 2020) was an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing from 2005 to 2007 and 2011 to 2017. He was fir ...

as chairman, with his term beginning on 4 April 2017.

Honours

In 2011, Goyder was awarded an

honorary degree An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad hon ...

, the

Doctor of Commerce The Doctor of Commerce (DCom) is a doctoral degree in commerce-, accounting-, mathematics-, economics-, and management-related subjects, awarded by universities in the Commonwealth. The degree is offered both as a higher doctorate, and as a resea ...

, by the University of Western Australia. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2013 Australia Day Honours, for "distinguished service to business through executive roles and through the promotion of corporate sponsorship of the arts and Indigenous programs, and to the community".GOYDER, Richard James
It's An Honour. Retrieved 15 February 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goyder, Richard 1960 births Living people Australian chief executives Fremantle Football Club administrators People educated at Hale School People from Tambellup, Western Australia Qantas people University of Western Australia alumni VFL/AFL administrators Wesfarmers people Officers of the Order of Australia People named in the Paradise Papers