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'''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]].
'''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.
In business MacLeod is best known as the CEO of the [[Committee For Melbourne]].


== Early years and education ==
== Early years and education ==
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==== ''Committee for Melbourne'' ====
==== ''Committee for Melbourne'' ====
[[Image:macleodcfmdinner.jpg|thumb|left|MacLeod Speaking at the Committee for Melbourne 25th Anniversary dinner.]]
[[Image:macleodcfmdinner.jpg|thumb|left|MacLeod Speaking at the Committee for Melbourne 25th Anniversary dinner.]]
In 2010 MacLeod was appointed CEO of the [[Committee for Melbourne]]<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/national/man-of-action-takes-on-city-role-20091223-ldg7.html]</ref> taking over from Sally Capp. The Committee, founded in 1985, is an independent member network of Melbourne leaders working together to ensure Melbourne’s liveability and economic prosperity.<ref>[http://melbourne.org.au]</ref> The Committee for Melbourne had previously been responsible for the [[Docklands, Victoria]] project, City Circle Tram and many other projects aimed at enhancing Melbourne liveability.
In 2010 MacLeod was appointed CEO of the [[Committee For Melbourne]]<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/national/man-of-action-takes-on-city-role-20091223-ldg7.html]</ref> taking over from Sally Capp. The Committee, founded in 1985, is an independent member network of Melbourne leaders working together to ensure Melbourne’s liveability and economic prosperity.<ref>[http://melbourne.org.au]</ref> The Committee for Melbourne had previously been responsible for the [[Docklands, Victoria]] project, City Circle Tram and many other projects aimed at enhancing Melbourne liveability.


==== ''Responsible Investment'' ====
==== ''Responsible Investment'' ====

Revision as of 11:38, 1 May 2010

Andrew MacLeod
UN Humanitarian Expert
Born
Andrew MacLeod

29 November
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAustralian
OccupationCEO Committee for Melbourne
Known forHumanitarian Operations
AwardsHumanitarian Overseas Service Medal plus bars.

Australian Defence Medal.

Silver medal for humanity (Montenegro red Cross)

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 and education

School Swim Team. MacLeod second from right.

MacLeod was born in Melbourne, Australia. He was educated at St Michael's Grammar School, where he was School Captain, in Melbourne. He won colors for swimming, football and drama and was a member of the first ever school team to compete in the Wild-treck Winter Classic two day adventure race.

He volunteered early as a surf lifesaver first as a junior 'nipper' (age 6-12) and then as Junior Club Captain at the Surf lifesaving club in Point Lonsdale Victoria.

He obtained Bachelor of Law and Arts degrees from the University of Tasmania. Whilst there MacLeod was President of the Student Sports Council, Vice President of the Student Union, Manager of the Student Housing Scheme and was a 'bouncer' at the University bar. MacLeod went on to gain a Masters of International Law at Southampton University, where he became the top debater in Britain for that year. Later he 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.

Career

MacLeod on duty with the 4th Batallion Royal Green jackets in the UK.

Military

MacLeod was commissioned in 1991 as an officer with the Australian Army. MacLeod and colleagues where part of an experimental model of Officer Training called "the Brighton model" that combined both university studies and military training through the Australian Army Reserve. This experiment went on to create the now defunct "Ready Reserve" scheme.

During his military service MacLeod served attachments with the British Army's Royal Green Jackets and was awarded the Australian Defence Medal. He remains on the 'Inactive Reserve' list.

International Maritime Law

Admission

After graduation from university in 1992 MacLeod was admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of Victoria (1994), Supreme Court of New South Wales(1994) the High Court of Australia(1994), and in England and Wales (1995). 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 [1]. The arrest of the vessel Rokko San [2] was a case that highlighted the shameful state of many merchant vessels [3] 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

MacLeod training Rwandan NCOs in Laws of Armed Conflict before the Invasion into DRC.

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. It was for this deployment that MacLeod was awarded his first Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal.

In 1996-1997 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 Serbia and Montenegro's first ever water rescue program (now Montenegro) [4]. This program was based on the model of Surf Life Saving Australia and still is in existence today.[5] For this work the Montenegro red Cross awarded MacLeod the Silver Medal for humanity.

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

MacLeod With Bill Clinton in East Timor at the handover from the United Nations to the first free Timor government.

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,[6] 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.

Business

Committee for Melbourne

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MacLeod Speaking at the Committee for Melbourne 25th Anniversary dinner.

In 2010 MacLeod was appointed CEO of the Committee For Melbourne[8] taking over from Sally Capp. The Committee, founded in 1985, is an independent member network of Melbourne leaders working together to ensure Melbourne’s liveability and economic prosperity.[9] The Committee for Melbourne had previously been responsible for the Docklands, Victoria project, City Circle Tram and many other projects aimed at enhancing Melbourne liveability.

Responsible Investment

MacLeod remains an unpaid advisor to Responsible Investment [10] which is an independent consultancy that specialises in assisting investment institutions to create and implement responsible investment practices. Previously with RI MacLeod had advised BHP Billiton and other companies on how to more effectively use their Corporate Social responsibility spending to assist with bringing under developed economies out of poverty.

Boards, Advisory Panels and Professional Bodies

MacLeod sits on the Boards of:

  • The Committee for Melbourne [13],
  • The Office of Knowledge Capital [14],
  • United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme Advisory Council,
  • The Australian Davos Connection Future Summit Advisory Board,
  • People.Productivity.Planet Advisory Board [15] and
  • The Transforming Melbourne Interim Board.

MacLeod formerly sat on the Boards of:

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.

Australian Politics

MacLeod was the Australian Labor Party candidate for the Australian House of Representatives seat of McEwen for the 2001 National Election. MacLeod first joined the Australian Labor Party as a student in the late 1980s 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.[11] Following the 2001 Federal Election MacLeod worked as a senior political adviser to the Victorian Deputy Premier John Thwaites[12] before undertaking the majority of his United Nations work.

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.

Prize Winning Photographer

MacLeod's Asian Geographic prize winner taken in Bicol, Philippines.

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

MacLeod has published several coffee table photograph books from places like the Antarctic, Burma, Philippines and others.

Writing

  • Docklands is different, but that's no reason to write it off. The Melbourne Age.
  • Protection must be colour blind: Issues on the Australian Aboriginal Children - The Melbourne Age.
  • With proper planning we'll bounce back. Bushfire Reconstruction. The Melbourne Age.
  • Non-Interfering Coordination: The Key to Pakistan's Successful Relief Effort (with Lt Gen Nadeem) in The Liaison Volume IV Issue 1, Centre for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance.
  • The Pakistan Earthquake (with Lt Gen Nadeem) in Cahill (ed) The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance, Fordham University Press.
  • The UN System Explained, in The Humanitarian Journal, Australian Aid International
  • Why Aid Workers Are in the Crosshairs. The Melbourne Age.
  • Iraq - The West's Moral Dilemma. The Melbourne Age.
  • A Challenging Time for Labor Too. The Melbourne Age.
  • The International Criminal Court Will Strengthen Australia's Global Standing. Australian Financial Review.

Awards and Recognition

MacLeod (left) with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after the ADC award ceremony.

MacLeod was awarded:

Andrew is also a life member of Antarctic Circle Expeditioners and the Society of Antarctic Divers and is a prize-winning amateur photographer [13].

Sources

References

  1. ^ [1]
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  3. ^ [3]
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  6. ^ [6] Reliefweb.com, 17 November 2005, retrieved 23 February 2006
  7. ^ [7]
  8. ^ [8]
  9. ^ [9]
  10. ^ http://www.responsibleinvestment.com.au/
  11. ^ [10]
  12. ^ [11]
  13. ^ [12]
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