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|birth_place = [[Melbourne]], Australia
|birth_place = [[Melbourne]], Australia
|known_for = [[Humanitarian Operations - public and private sector]]
|known_for = [[Humanitarian Operations - public and private sector]]
|occupation = Chairman [[United Nations]] [[Global Compact]] [[Principles for Social Investment]], General Manager [[Rio Tinto]].
|occupation = Chairman [[United Nations]] [[Global Compact]] [[Principles for Social Investment]].
|awards = [[Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal]] plus clasps for Balkans and Great Lakes.
|awards = [[Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal]] plus clasps for Balkans and Great Lakes.


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Andrew MacLeod
File:Macleod at searby.jpg
UN Humanitarian Expert
Born
Andrew MacLeod

Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAustralia and British n
OccupationChairman United Nations Global Compact Principles for Social Investment.
Known forHumanitarian Operations - public and private sector
AwardsHumanitarian Overseas Service Medal plus clasps for Balkans and Great Lakes.

Australian Defence Medal.

Silver Medal for Humanity (Montenegro Red Cross)


Andrew MacLeod (BA/LLB (Tas), LLM (Soton), Grad Dip, Intn Law (Melb), GAICD), is a Board Member and Foundation Chair of the Principles for Social Investment and is a member of the United Nations Expert Group on 'Responsible Business and Investment in High-Risk Areas'. He is a patron of Swags for the Homeless, is on the advisory Board to the Big Issue, is an Ambassador for the Victorian Youth Mentoring Alliance and is an Ambassador for 'Welcome to Australia'.


Previously MacLeod was the CEO of the Committee for Melbourne, was the Foundation Chair of the United Nations Global Compact Principles for Social Investment and was a senior international humanitarian official, emergency management specialist and post disaster recovery expertwho has led international teams in the world's most difficult of circumstances.' He most notably served as Chief of Operations in the United Nations Emergency Coordination Centre in the International response to the 2005 Kashmir earthquake (2005 Kashmir earthquake).

An author of a fiction novel and a contributing author to non-fiction, he is a valued speaker and motivator. Andrew is also a life member of Antarctic Circle Expeditioners and the Society of Antarctic Divers.

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. MacLeod also holds a graduate Diploma in International Law from the University of Melbourne.

Career

MacLeod on duty with the 4th Battalion 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 assisting Rod Withnell in 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.

Together with the then Military Prosecutor General, Lt Col Andrew Rwigamba, MacLeod wrote and implemented the first Army wide code of discipline that help start the process of professionalisation in the post-genocide Rwandan military.

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

MacLeod during aid delivery in remote Pakistan.

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.

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. His advice on permanent recovery mechanisms have now been incorporated into government recommendations.

MacLeod remains on the United Nations Roster of deployable post disaster recovery experts and disaster response coordination experts through the United Nations UNDAC system.

Business

Responsible Investment

With Responsible Investment[8], an independent consultancy that specialises in assisting investment institutions to create and implement responsible investment practices, MacLeod had advised BHP Billiton and other companies on how to more effectively use their Corporate Social responsibility spending to assist under developed economies.

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[9] 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.[10] 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.

MacLeod reversed a three year trend of growing deficits in the organisation and returned the organisation to surplus, increasing net equity by 286% in only two years. MacLeod returned the organisation to a point of prominence in Melbourne raising media presence by 700% and is partially credited (along with Planning Minster Matthew Guy) for sparking the redevelopment of Fishermans Bend and highlighting the need for Grade Separation between Road and Rail in Melbourne.


Principles for Social Investment

In 2010 the United Nations Global Compact created the Principles for Social Investment to encourage the further expansion of the private sector's involvement in social investment. MacLeod is the foundation chair of the principles for Social Investment Secretariat, based in Melbourne Australia.

Boards, Advisory Panels and Professional Bodies

MacLeod sits on the Boards of:

  • The United Nations Global Compact Principles for Social Investment,
  • The Australian Davos Connection Future Summit Advisory Board,and
  • The Big Issue Australia Advisory Board.

MacLeod formerly sat on the Boards of:

  • The Committee for Melbourne [11] (until 2012),
  • La trobe University External Sustainability Board(until 2012),
  • The Mandala Foundation [12](until 2011),
  • The Office of Knowledge Capital [13](until 2011),
  • The United Nations Global Compact Network Australia [14](until 2011),
  • United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme Advisory Council(until 2011),
  • People.Productivity.Planet Advisory Board [15] (until 2011)
  • The Building Melbourne Interim Board(until 2010),
  • Australians for Just Refugee Programs (1999–2002),
  • The Australian Republican Movement (1999–2002).

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.In 1992 MacLeod stood for the Tasmanian seat of Franklin where he received the lowest vote of all Labor candidates. 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 failure MacLeod worked as a electoral officer for the Victorian Deputy Premier John Thwaites[12] before undertaking the majority of his United Nations work.

MacLeod left the Labor Party in 2011 protesting the party's stance on asylum seekers and treatment of refugees.

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 on his photographic website.

Author

MacLeod is a contributing author to "The Pulse of Humanitarian Action" ISBN 978-0823227167.

He is the author of the fictional piece "Doing Good by Mistake - a humouros look at NGOs in disaster" ISBN 978-1463600273.

Non Fiction

The Pulse of Humanitarian Action: Synopsis

Understanding the complex nature of international humanitarian action-particularly following natural disasters or armed conflicts-has been the mission of this unique series. This book explores the cutting-edge concerns that will affect how assistance is offered in the future.

Featuring twelve original essays by leading practitioners, policymakers, and scholars, the book is a state of the field report on problems, threats, and opportunities facing relief efforts in today's world.

The issues include military and civilian cooperation in large-scale disasters, with special attention to the growth of private armies. How traditional nongovernmental organizations and faith-based agencies adapt to newchallenges is also explored. Ways to strengthen security for humanitarian workers, refugees, and internally displaced persons and those in transition after wars are also considered. Bringing together diplomatic, military, medical, legal, political, religious, and ethical perspectives from experiences in Darfur, West Africa, Iraq, Pakistan, and other areas, the essays offer an authoritative inventory of where humanitarian relief has been, and how it must change to save lives and communities in peril.

Fiction

Doing Good By Mistake: Synopsis

Doing Good by Mistake is a novelette that takes a humorous side swipe at the aid world.

One man struggles against the in-built corruption of the aid 'system'.

Whilst his personal struggle was lost, he put in place a series of events that caused an unexpected gain.

Norman swayed as he stared out the window. He looked down the five floors to the car park below. ‘The Fat Man’ was struggling to pull himself from the new Mercedes and would undoubtedly heave his huge frame up the stairs to Norman’s office.

“Christ the man is fat” thought Norman. He took one last pull from the bottle of Jack Daniel’s in preparation for the torment that was fated to follow. Norman often wondered how a man could get so fat, and drive a Mercedes - be driven in a Mercedes - in a country crippled by war and international sanctions.

“Another meeting with this corrupt pig,” he thought.

So begins "Doing Good by Mistake"

If you ever thought donating to large charities was good, this book will make you think again.

Articles published

  • 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:


Sources

References

  1. ^ The Mikhail Lermontov
  2. ^ [1]
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  4. ^ [3]
  5. ^ [4]
  6. ^ [5] Reliefweb.com, 17 November 2005, retrieved 23 February 2006
  7. ^ [6]
  8. ^ http://www.responsibleinvestment.com.au/
  9. ^ [7]
  10. ^ [8]
  11. ^ [9]
  12. ^ [10]
Business positions
Preceded by
foundation
 Foundation Chairman, UN Principles for Social Investment
2010-2012 		Succeeded by
Preceded by CEO of the Committee For Melbourne
2009-2012 		Succeeded by
Andrea Gaffney acting CEO

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