Stories and Messages
The John Monash Foundation warmly welcomes its newest Leadership Academy Advisory Board member, Carolyn Hewson AO. Carolyn is a former investment banker with over 35 years of experience in finance and extensive leadership experience across a number of sectors, including a depth of insight into strategy, capital management, risk, social value and organisational culture.
The 2023 BHP John Monash Scholar Nicholas Maurer joined the BHP Planning and Technical team for a lunch and learn in January, presenting his work on decarbonised energy systems.
On Tuesday, February 21, Foundation CEO Paul Ramadge and Executive Director Katharine Dix Corke met with faculty leaders at Perth’s Curtin University
High-profile supporters and friends of the General Sir John Monash Foundation attended a special 20th anniversary dinner in Perth.
Famin Ahmed (2024 Queensland Government John Monash Scholar) spoke to Brisbane Radio Station 4BC about her John Monash Scholarship and community ambition.
The Grattan Institute has announced the next CEO of the public policy think tank will be 2006 John Monash Scholar Dr Aruna Sathanapally.
The Foundation is pleased to announce that Simon Atkinson has been appointed Chair of the Advisory Board of the John Monash Foundation Leadership Academy. Simon succeeds Professor Sir Edward Byrne AC who announced that he would retire from the Advisory Board on appointment of a successor. Simon has also been appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the Foundation Board.
We are pleased to announce that Dr Karen McConalogue, an academic and executive with more than 20 years of experience in the tertiary education and research sector, including valuable experience in postgraduate programs and fellowships, has been appointed Executive Director of the John Monash Foundation Leadership Academy.
John Monash Scholars were centre stage at a special dinner hosted by KPMG held on Thursday the 29th of November in Brisbane. Friends, supporters, Scholar alumni and members of the Queensland Department of Education came together to celebrate both the Foundation’s 20th year of awarding scholarships as well as the establishment of a new Queensland Government John Monash Scholarship.
The General Sir John Monash Foundation held is 12th Annual Oration, hosted by one of our partners, The Commonwealth Bank in Sydney on the 23rd of November. The John Monash Oration is an annual event providing insight into different aspects of leadership in Australian society.
University of Queensland graduate and former Kenmore State High School student Famin Ahmed has been awarded the first Queensland Government John Monash Scholarship, a newly announced commitment from the Palaszczuk Government.
Dr Brett Parkinson has been officially named this year’s Global Australian Awards’ Emerging Leader.