Ralph Norris KNZM

Chairman and Independent, Non-executive Director
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Auckland Gas Company
New Zealand

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Biography

Sir Ralph Norris has over 40 years of business and banking experience, having led large organisations through transformational change in both New Zealand and Australia. He is the chairman of Fletcher Building Limited and RANQX Holdings Limited, along with holding directorships on the Advisory Boards of New Zealand Treasury, Tax Management NZ and SouthPark Corporation. He is a former director of Fonterra Limited and Origin Energy Limited. He was managing director and chief executive of Commonwealth Bank of Australia for six years until 2011, and prior to that served as chief executive of Air New Zealand and ASB Bank. Sir Ralph was made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2009 and a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business in 2006. In 2012 he had conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate of Business by the University of New South Wales.

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