Roger Corbett

For other people named Roger Corbett, see Roger Corbett (disambiguation).

Roger Campbell Corbett AO (born 1942) is an Australian businessman. From January 1999 to September 2006, Corbett served as CEO of Woolworths Limited, a large retailing conglomerate. He is now a director of Wal-Mart, the Reserve Bank of Australia and Fairfax Media. He became chairman of Fairfax at the company's 2009 Annual General Meeting. Corbett was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours, for service to the retail industry, particularly as a contributor to the development of industry policy and standards, and to the community. In 2008, he was promoted to an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to business, particularly through leadership and executive roles in the retail sector and a range of allied organisations, and to the community.

On 15 February 2012, a war of words has broken out between NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner and Corbett, the sacked chairman of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, after she accused him of intimidating a senior health executive and had a disagreement over the transfer of the network's chief executive, Elizabeth Koff. Skinner was asked in (NSW Parliament) Question Time why Mr Corbett had been removed. Prefacing her answer with comments about the need to stamp out bullying in NSW Health, she accused the former chair of "intimidating Ms Koff, who allegedly received multiple phone calls from Mr Corbett, some late into the night, placing unreasonable demands, and making intimidating remarks to her." She said she considered Mr Corbett's approach inappropriate and told him his position had become untenable.