UNSW Alumni

Matt Comyn, CEO and Managing DIrector of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia In an interview with Mark Scott AO, Matt discusses his 20+ years’ experience in banking including his appointment to CEO two years ago after intense scrutiny of Australian banks during the Royal Commission into Financial Services Misconduct, how CBA is regaining customer and community confidence, and more recently, what the true cost of the Coronavirus pandemic for CBA and its customers. Hosted by UNSW Business School, the flagship Meet the CEO series offers key insights from our country’s greatest business minds as well as political and government leaders. Previous speakers include Harvey Norman’s Katie Page, Premier of NSW The Hon. Gladys Berejiklian MP and Duncan Lewis AO, Director-General of Security, ASIO.

What do you think about when you hear the word slavery? Ancient Greece or Egypt, or the more than 12 million Africans who were traded across the Atlantic? Slavery existed then, and it still exists now. The clothes we wear, the coffee we drink, the food we eat – all of these are the end products of long supply chains tainted by modern slavery. Legal Hour will explore whether Australia’s legal framework, which is premised on mandated corporate disclosures, is likely to be effective in combating modern slavery. Is more needed? And how should businesses be responding? **Conversation commences at 4:17**

Accelerating the recovery from COVID-19 is one of the key challenges we are all grappling with around the globe. Addressing the pandemic’s immediate impacts on the economy is critical, but how can we embrace and capitalise on the new opportunities that COVID-19 has forced into fruition? Business of Recovery explores the important and enduring ways the economic environment post-COVID is likely to differ from pre-COVID. A panel of distinguished alumni join us for Business of Recovery, representing vast experience and knowledge, working across a range of sectors with effect on large sections of society, in both global and Australian contexts. Moderator: Glenda Korporaal OAM, Associate Editor (Business), The Australian Panellists: Guy Templeton, President & CEO, WSP Australia & NZ Joanne Spillane, Executive Director & Global Head of Private Capital Markets, Macquarie CapitaL Peeyush Gupta AM, Chair of Charter Hall Long Wale REIT