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In 2010 MacLeod was appointed CEO of the [[Committee for Melbourne]].[http://www.theage.com.au/national/man-of-action-takes-on-city-role-20091223-ldg7.html] The Committee, founded in 1985, is an independent member network of Melbourne leaders working together to ensure Melbourne’s liveability and economic prosperity.[http://melbourne.org.au] |
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He was an active sportsman having won the Silver Medal for the 200m Butterfly at the [[World Masters Games]] and spent many years as a volunteer [[Surf Lifesaver]] at [[Point Lonsdale]] in Victoria. |
He was an active sportsman having won the Silver Medal for the 200m Butterfly at the [[World Masters Games]] in 2002 and spent many years as a volunteer [[Surf Lifesaver]] at [[Point Lonsdale]] in Victoria winning medals as part of Point Lonsdale Surf Lifesaving Club's R&R Team in the early 1980s. |
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== Awards and Recognition == |
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Revision as of 05:11, 26 April 2010
Andrew Michael MacLeod is an senior international humanitarian official, emergency management specialist and post disaster recovery expert, who most notably served in the United Nations Emergency Coordination Centre in response to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. In business MacLeod is best known as the CEO of the Committee for Melbourne.
Early years
MacLeod was born in Melbourne, Australia. He was educated at St Michael's Grammar School, where he was School Captain, in Melbourne.
He obtained Bachelor of Law and Arts degrees from the University of Tasmania, a Masters of International Law at Southampton University, was part of Melbourne University's Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
MacLeod was also commissioned in 1991 as an officer with the Australian Army and served attachments with the British Army's Royal Green Jackets.
Career
International Maritime Law
Admission
After graduation MacLeod was admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Supreme Court of New South Wales the High Court of Australia, and in England and Wales. During this time he worked for law firms such as Withnell and Co in Australia, Watson Farley and Williams in the United Kingdom and Norton Rose in the UK and Greece.
Notable cases
His work included acting for passengers who survived the sinking of the MS Mikhail Lermontov which resulted in a lengthy legal judgement [2]. The arrest of the vessel Rokko San [3] was a case that highlighted the shameful state of many merchant vessels [4] that often left crew in enormous danger or stranded with their vessel arrested. MacLeod, with the team from Watson Farley and Williams was able to have the crew returned home, the ship decommissioned and scrapped.
International Humanitarian Expert
International Red Cross
After working on a number of high profile legal cases in Australia MacLeod joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and was given responsibility for negotiating security and access guarantees in the former Yugoslavia during the Yugoslav wars.
In 1996-1996 MacLeod created a joint program with the International Lifesaving Federation, The Belgrade Centre for the Prevention of Drowning and the Yugoslav Red Cross to establish Yugoslavia's first ever water rescue program (now Montenegro) [5]. This program was based on the model of Surf Life Saving Australia and still is in existence today.[6]
Following Yugoslavia, MacLeod was sent, in 1998, to Rwanda to work in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and ongoing conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He negotiated and implemented Law of Armed Conflict training programs within the military factions of those conflicts, which contributed to improved access for aid workers.
International Commission of Jurists
Under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists he monitored the 1999 independence referendum in East Timor, evacuated several pro-independence leaders in the violent aftermath, the 2001 parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka and conducted a scrutineer school for local party officials in the lead up to the 2002 Presidential election in East Timor.
United Nations Expert
In 2003 MacLeod he worked with the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in reviewing and updating UNHCRs Early Warning and Emergency Preparedness procedures and worked on UN system wide improvements through the Inter Agency Standing Committee.
Following the Pakistan earthquake, one of the most difficult natural disaster response conducted by the United Nations in recent years,[1] MacLeod worked as Chief of Operations of the United Nations Emergency Coordination Center which coordinated the delivery of aid and relief.
MacLeod, together with Maj-Gen Nadeem Ahmad modified an experimental model of coordination for the earthquake response known as "Cluster Approach", based on a series of recommendations made during a full review of humanitarian operation conducted through 2005. Whilst it was then a new and untried method, the "Cluster Approach" is now used as a model for global disaster management.[7].
This model has now been applied to other countries, with MacLeod assisting the National Disaster Coordinating Council in the Philippines with similar work through 2008.
MacLeod was part of the United Nations Development Program expert group that helped formulate new post disaster recovery rules and guidelines.
MacLeod remains on the United Nations Roster of deployable post disaster recovery experts and disaster response coordination experts through the United Nations UNDAC system.
Victorian Bush Fires Recovery
When bush fires struck central Victoria in 2009, MacLeod wrote early advice to the government of Victoria,and to local Federal MPs on how to set up the post disaster management for rebuilding and reconstruction.
Australian Politics
MacLeod was the Australian Labor Party candidate for the Australian House of Representatives seat of McEwen, the area he grew up in, for the 2001 National Election. MacLeod first joined the Australian Labor Party as a student in the late 1980's and had many active party roles chairing various branches and policy committees over the years. At the 2001 election MacLeod achieved a swing nearly 2% better than the ALP national swing, making him the best performed candidate in that seat at any election from 1998-2007.[8] Following the 2001 Federal Election MacLeod worked as a senior political adviser to the Victorian Deputy Premier John Thwaites.[9]
Business
Committee for Melbourne
In 2010 MacLeod was appointed CEO of the Committee for Melbourne.[10] The Committee, founded in 1985, is an independent member network of Melbourne leaders working together to ensure Melbourne’s liveability and economic prosperity.[11]
Boards, Advisory Panels and Professional Bodies
MacLeod sits on the Boards of:
- The Committee for Melbourne [12],
- The Office of Knowledge Capital [13],
- United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme Advisory Council,
- The Australian Davos Connection Future Summit Advisory Board,
- People.Productivity.Planet Advisory Board [14] and
- The Transforming Melbourne Interim Board.
MacLeod is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors a former Member of the Law Institute of Victoria, The Law Society (England and Wales) and the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand.
Sport
He was an active sportsman having won the Silver Medal for the 200m Butterfly at the World Masters Games in 2002 and spent many years as a volunteer Surf Lifesaver at Point Lonsdale in Victoria winning medals as part of Point Lonsdale Surf Lifesaving Club's R&R Team in the early 1980s.
Awards and Recognition
MacLeod was awarded:
- The Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal for his actions in the Balkans (1996-97),
- Awarded The HOSM a second time for his actions in Rwanda (1998-99).
- A third nomination has been made for his actions in Pakistan (2005-06).
- Awarded the Australian Defence Medal for service in the Australian Armed Forces.
- The Silver Medal for Humanity in Montenegro (1997)
- Awarded by the Australian Government for his service in East Timor in 1999.
- The Australian Davos Connection (ADC) leadership award for his work in encouraging social corporate responsibility engagement in emergency assistance settings.
Andrew is also a life member of Antarctic Circle Expeditioners and the Society of Antarctic Divers and is a prize-winning amateur photographer [15].
Prize Winning Photographer
MacLeod is a keen amateur photographer and has won several international competitions including a gold medal with underwaterphotography.com [16] for his image in Antarctica in 2006.
Sample of other prize winning shots
Sources
- United Nations Development Program Pakistan
- Centre for Excellence in Disaster Management
- The aftermath of the Earthquake - IRIN news site
- The aftermath of the Earthquake, moving to recovery - IRIN news site
- Cambridge University Field Trip
- Australian government Awards site
- Relief web report
- archive of MacLeod's 2001 election site Australian National Library site Pandora
- University of Tasmania
- The University of Melbourne
- United Nations/Government of Pakistan Early Recovery Plan
- Government of Pakistan Annual review
References
External links
- United Nations - Official site
- Cluster Approach - Official UN site
- The Liaison - Non-Interfering Coordination
- The aftermath of the Earthquake - IRIN news site
- Responsible Investment home page Responsible Investment
- The aftermath of the Earthquake, moving to recovery - IRIN news site
- Public Facebook page - Facebook