Neville Barwick - Chairman
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After graduating with honours in Architecture, Neville spent the first fifteen years of his career as an architect responsible for major projects and Commonwealth of Australia works administration. From the role of Officer-in-Charge of New Guinea’s Highlands Region, he returned to Australia to manage the construction of Melbourne Airport and subsequently the position of Assistant Secretary Housing and Construction.
Following the task of management of The Darwin Reconstruction Study in 1975, he changed direction to become Victoria’s Assistant Director General of Education (Building); Commissioner for Post Secondary Education and later Director General Youth Affairs, Sport and Recreation, Racing and Gaming. In his next appointment as Executive Consultant in the Victorian Government, Neville chaired the Joint Commonwealth/State Melbourne Airport Strategy, government aspects of the Fast Train Project and was executive member of the Horticultural Export Council.
In private life, Neville has been a Heidelberg City Councillor and foundation chairman of ‘Region 14’, Board member of the Multiple Sclerosis Society; the Council of Adult Education and the James McGrath Foundation (Odyssey House); and the President of Milparinka (an organisation for intellectually disabled children), and the Rotary Club of Melbourne.
In 1997, he completed five years in the role of Chairman of Hanover Welfare Services and Director of the Inaugural Board of the RMIT Graduate School of Business. Activities since 2000 include establishing the involvement of Melbourne Rotary in East Timor and convening a group to build an Embassy for East Timor in Canberra as a gift from the people of Australia, and the role of Chairman of the Board of Silvagene - a forestry germplasm company in the Timbercorp Group. He is Principal of Neville Barwick & Associates and Chairman/Director in Performance Group, past President of Nulla Vale Pyalong Landcare, and Chairman Upper Goulburn component of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, and the Australia –East Timor Embassy Fund.
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
B. Architecture (Hons), Queensland University
Dip. Concrete Technology
AWARDS
Queensland Board of Architects Prize, 1956, ’57, ’58, ‘59
RAIA Queensland Memorial Medal 1960
Hulmes Rocla Concrete Technology Prize 1967
Productivity Council Award 1977
Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Medal
Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow & World Peace Citation
Honorary Member Rotary Clubs of Melbourne & Romsey Lancefield, & Hanover Welfare Services
Australian Government recognition for services in East Timor
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