Australia-Korea Foundation Board Members
Current Board membership
Chair
Mr David Palmer
Appointed Chair in 2008 for five years
David Palmer, the Managing Director of Meat and Livestock Australia, was raised with a farming and livestock production background and has held a number of positions in the Australian red meat industries. Mr. Palmer has been traveling to Korea for business purposes for over two decades and has established strong links within the commercial sector in Korea.
After serving six years as Executive Director of The Cattle Council of Australia, he joined the Australian Meat & Livestock Corporation in 1995, managing food safety and quality assurance programs.
In 1998, Mr. Palmer joined the newly formed Meat and Livestock Australia Limited and helped establish the company in his role as General Manager, Industry Affairs and Communication, based in Sydney. He left this role to be the North American Regional Manager in December 2002, and represented the interests of the Australian beef, sheep meat and goat industries throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico from 2003-2006. In February 2006, Mr Palmer was appointed Managing Director.
Mr Palmer is also a director of AUS-MEAT Limited and MLA Donor Company Limited.
Members
Dr Bronwen Dalton
Appointed in 2009 for three years
Dr Bronwen Dalton is Director of the Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management; Coordinator of the Masters of Community Management and Student Ombudsman at the University of Technology, Sydney.
From 1992 to 1995, Bronwen was Assistant and later Acting Director of the National Korean Studies Centre (NKSC) and a Lecturer of Korean Language and Studies at the Universities of Melbourne and Swinburne. Bronwen completed her D.Phil in 2001 at the University of Oxford where she researched the sources of political corruption in South Korea. Bronwen also has a BA from the Australian National University (ANU) and a MA from Yonsei University, Seoul.
Bronwen has published various Korea-related academic articles and chapters as well as reports for government including an export guide for Austrade and a report on Korean language teaching for the National Institute for Language and Literacy. Bronwen has lived, studied and worked in Korea for several years and speaks Korean.
Dr Kim Dalton OAM
Reappointed in 2009 for one year
Kim has worked in the Australian and international film and television industry since 1973 after graduating from the Flinders University Drama School. As an investment manager at the Australian Film Finance Corporation in the early ‘90s he was involved in the financing of numerous projects including the feature films Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla.
From 1999, as Chief Executive of the Australian Film Commission, Kim was responsible for overhauling its development programs, expanding its screen culture programs and ensuring the agency’s and industry’s engagement with digital and online technology, production and distribution.
Since joining the ABC as Director of TV in 2006 Kim has made a major contribution to the policy debate around Australian content and the role of the public broadcaster in the digital era as well as effecting significant reform within the TV Division in these areas.
In 2007 Kim was awarded an OAM for service to the film and television industry in policy, in assistance to Indigenous producers and in the promotion of emerging visual technology.
Mr Bernie Delaney
Appointed in 2008 for three years
Bernie Delaney’s early career commenced with the Australian Government Trade Commissioner Service (now Austrade) with assignments in South East Asia, Western and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He worked with the Victorian State Government in Australia promoting its interests in North Asia (including the Republic of Korea) and South East Asia mainly related to export promotion and investment attraction.
In 1990, he joined BHP (now BHP Billiton), working in the steel and petroleum sectors, involved mainly with external relations, major issues management as well as mergers, acquisitions and divestment activities. In 2003 he became responsible for Government Relations and major issues management activities as well as the global Asset Protection function. The latter accountabilities related to global security, crisis and emergency management and business continuity preparedness and associated risk mitigation. The role also engaged in these aspects of country risk assessments, risk mitigation and monitoring.
Bernie has been a member of the Australia-Korea Business Council Executive Committee from 2002 to present and a regular participant in AKBC/KABC bilateral meetings.
Dr Rodney Hall AM
Reappointed in 2008 for two years
Rodney Hall is an author with an international reputation. His books are published in the USA, UK, Australia and Canada and in translations into German, French, Danish, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese. His many radio and TV scripts have been broadcast by the ABC and the BBC.
He has twice won Australia’s premier literary prize the Miles Franklin Award. The Australian Literature Society has twice presented him with their gold medal (in 1992 and again in 2001). He is also a musician, co-founder and director of The Australian Summer School of Early Music.
His involvement with Aboriginal rights dates back to 1961 in Brisbane when he was a foundation member of the Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
In 1990 he was honoured with membership of the Order of Australia. In 1991 he was appointed for a three-year term as Chairman of the Australia Council. He is at present Distinguished Visiting Professor at Victoria University.
Emeritus Professor Michael Miller AO
Reappointed in 2008 for two years
Michael Miller was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2008 for service to science, particularly through leadership in the innovation and development of future-generation telecommunications technology. He worked for 9 years with Telecom Australia and 35 years in the University of South Australia (UniSA), where he was Professor of Telecommunications and Foundation Director of the Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR).
He is Professor Emeritus at UniSA, the founder and Chairman Emeritus of m.Net Corporation, and serves on other government advisory bodies, including the Board of the Australia-KoreaFoundation. He is a member of a number of Boards including the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and the Sir Ross & Sir Keith Smith Foundation.
Associate Professor Chung-Sok Suh
Appointed in 2008 for three years
Chung-Sok Suh is an Associate Professor in the School of Organisation and Management at the University of New South Wales and the director of the university’s Korea-Australasia Research Centre (KAREC). Professor Suh is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of Korean Studies and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Korean Economy. He has researched and published widely on the activities of Korean multinational corporations overseas and on corporate strategy in East Asia.
Professor Suh has a Bachelor of Economics from Seoul National University and a Masters of Commerce and a PhD from the University of New South Wales.
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