Geoffrey David Walsh AO is an Australian political and business adviser.
Educated at Caulfield Grammar School and La Trobe University, Walsh worked as a journalist for the Border Mail, Herald Sun, The Age and Australian Financial Review before serving as an advisor to Australian Labor Party politicians Bob Hawke and Paul Keating during their terms as Prime Minister of Australia. He became a diplomat, working for the International Labour Organization in the United Nations Office at Geneva and later as the Australia Consul-General to Hong Kong. He worked as the National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party from 2000 to 2003 overseeing the 2001 federal election campaign.[1] He then spent over two years as a government relations consultant.
In 2005, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, "for service to politics as National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party and to the community in the areas of tertiary education and promoting closer ties between Australia and Hong Kong".[2]
Walsh was appointed Chief of Staff to Premier of Victoria Steve Bracks in September 2006. In 2007 BHP Billiton appointed Walsh as Director of Public Affairs[3] he later became special advisor to Marius Kloppers, the former CEO of BHP.[4]
He currently serves as the founding Executive Chairman of the Melbourne based York Park Group.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Chifley man for ALP job". The Age. 16 August 2003.
- ^ Australian Honours (2006). WALSH, Geoffrey David. Retrieved 16 July 2006.
- ^ "BHP Billiton Appoints Director Public Affairs". BHP. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ Kitney and Creedy, Damon and Steve (11 September 2010). "Hands-on Epstein to take miner's fight to Canberra". The Australian.
- ^ "YPG – York Park Group". Retrieved 11 March 2021.
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