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David Morgan: An Extraordinary Life

By Oliver Brown

Book information

Publisher
Hardie Grant
Year
2019
ISBN
9781743586051, 1743586051
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1507025 bytes)
Pages
304\0
Time added
2019-03-11 08:52:48

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While most might imagine David Morgan AO to have a conservative economic background, the truth is far more exotic. Prior to becoming the CEO of a global top-20 bank, he overcame the scars of his father's bankruptcy, starred alongside Olivia Newton-John as a child actor, turned down a spot at Richmond Football Club, survived a stand-off with an African dictator, and served in the Treasury of the Hawke-Keating government as it liberalised Australia's economy. After a PhD at the London School of Economics, Morgan worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, uncovering eye-watering corruption on foreign postings, until Canberra pulled him home. As a colleague and confidant of Paul Keating, Morgan had a central role in an audacious period of financial deregulation, tax reform and budget consolidation. In 1989 Morgan jumped the public-private fence to join Westpac, where he was immediately branded an 'academic socialist' outsider. Yet his boundless ambition, and his instinct to balance what is right for business and what is simply the right thing to do, saw him appointed CEO in 1999, a role he held until 2008. Oliver Brown's biography of one of Australia's key financial figures includes rare interviews with former prime minister Paul Keating, Wall Street titans Jamie Dimon and James Gorman, Reserve Bank governors Bernie Fraser and Ian MacFarlane, Westpac CEOs Bob Joss and Gail Kelly, and secretaries of the Treasury Ken Henry, Ted Evans and Martin Parkinson. Intro Title Page Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Stage Fright Chapter 2. Escaped Hamsters Chapter 3. Journey Without Maps Chapter 4. The Stone Age Chapter 5. Taxing Times Chapter 6. Hawks Versus Doves Chapter 7. The Cancer of Hubris Chapter 8. Culture Shock Chapter 9. Risk and Resilience Chapter 10. Leaders Throw Long Shadows Chapter 11. Life's Third Act Acknowledgements Interviews Notes Copyright Page

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