Sid Myer AM (Chair, National Portrait Gallery Foundation)
Sid Myer AM is the Chair of Myer Family Investments and a Director of Copia Investment and Mutual Trust.
After 20 years as the Chief Executive Officer of the family investment group, the Yulgilbar Group of Companies, Myer stepped down in 2016 and remains a Non-Executive Director of the Group, and a trustee of the Yulgilbar Foundation.
Myer graduated in Economics and Marketing from Monash University in Melbourne. He has over 40 years of experience in retailing and investment management industries in Australia and overseas having lived in America, Switzerland and Malaysia.
Myer joined the National Portrait Gallery Board in July 2013. He was appointed Deputy Chair in 2016, and the inaugural Chair of the National Portrait Gallery Foundation in 2014.
In December 2017, Myer joined the National Advisory Board of Apropela (formerly Heads Over Heels), a not-for-profit organization that supports women entrepreneurs by providing access to influential business networks.
Building Australia’s engagement in the Asian region has always been important to Myer. He was Chair of Asialink from 2005-16 and remains a Life Patron of Asialink.
Sid is married to Fiona and they have three children and five grandchildren.
Hayley Baillie (Deputy Chair, National Portrait Gallery Foundation)
Hayley Baillie and her husband, James, co-founded Baillie Lodges, a growing portfolio of premium luxury lodges in extraordinary destinations, including Capella Lodge on Lord Howe Island and Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island.
She is Co-Chair of the Sapphire Project for marine conservation and currently serves as a Board member of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and the Australian String Quartet, and a Foundation Board member of the Australia Ballet.
Hayley is also a Director of the Dick & Pip Smith Foundation and Chair of the Baillie Family Foundation. From 2016-22, she was a Board Member of Tourism Australia.
Susan Armitage
Susan Armitage was appointed to the National Portrait Gallery Foundation in April 2024.
Armitage’s background is in financial markets, having worked for JBWere and Macquarie Equities for over 30 years. She was a member of the Board of the Art Gallery of South Australia from 2015-24, during which time she chaired the Board Funds Management Committee and Acquisitions Committee of the Gallery.
Armitage was also a member of the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation for 12 years. She was a member of the National Gallery of Australia Foundation for six years and was a member of the Venice Biennale Commissioner’s Council, during the period when Simon Mordant AO and Naomi Milgrom AC chaired the Council.
Tim Bednall
Tim Bednall is a Partner of law firm King & Wood Mallesons (KWM), based in Sydney, where he heads the Corporate Governance practice and Owl Advisory, the firm’s aligned compliance and governance risk practice.
Bednall is a Non-Executive Director of Amplitude Energy Limited and Perpetual Equity Investment Company Limited. He is a former chairman of the Australian partnership of KWM, and a former Managing Partner of KWM Europe and Middle East, based in London.
He and his wife Vanessa also own Calabash Lodge Equestrian, an equestrian agistment business.
Dr Jillian Broadbent AC
Dr Jillian Broadbent AC has extensive experience as an executive in the banking industry and as a director of public companies including Woodside Petroleum Limited and Woolworths Limited.
Broadbent served as a Non-Executive Director of the National Portrait Gallery Board from 2013-21. She is currently a Director of Macquarie Group Limited, the Seaborn Broughton & Walford Foundation and the Lowy Institute. She was Board Member of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1998 - 2013 and the inaugural Chair of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (2012-17).
In 2020, she completed an 11-year term as Chancellor of the University of Wollongong. She also served on the board of ASX Limited, Coca-Cola Amatil, Qantas, SBS and Westfield.
Broadbent maintains an active interest in the arts, is a Director of the Sydney Dance Company and has been a member of the board of Sydney Theatre Company, NIDA, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Art Gallery of NSW.
In 2019, Broadbent was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, and she was awarded a Doctor of Laws at the University of Wollongong in 2020.
Patrick Corrigan AM
Patrick Corrigan AM is an Australian businessman, art collector, jazz enthusiast and philanthropist.
Corrigan was appointed to the Board of the National Portrait Gallery in 2015 and served until 2022. He has donated or contributed to the acquisition of works for the National Portrait Collection, as well as funding the portrait commission series of Australian Rugby greats. In 2000, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the visual arts, particularly as a philanthropist to state and regional galleries and libraries, and through a grant scheme for artists.
Corrigan is a Director of Flagship Investment Ltd and Global Masters Fund Ltd. He is also the Director and co-owner of Better Read Than Dead Books in Newtown, Sydney.
In 2007, Bond University conferred an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of his sustained support of the visual arts, in particular, First Nations art. In 2012, Corrigan was the recipient of the Australian Business Arts Foundation’s Philanthropy Leadership Award for encouraging increased philanthropic giving to Australia’s cultural life.
In recognition of his support of Bond University and other Queensland cultural institutions, the Queensland Government conferred the Queensland Greats Award upon Corrigan in 2014. He has self-published three books on First Nations art: New Beginnings, Power + Colour and Gabori.
Marilyn Darling AC
Marilyn Darling AC is Chair of the Gordon Darling Foundation, Australia.
Darling is a Founding Patron of the National Portrait Gallery and was Chair of the NPG Board from 2000-08. Under her leadership, the Gallery grew from a small space in Old Parliament House to a significant Federal institution in its own building in Canberra.
In 2009, Darling was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia for service to the development, advancement and growth of visual arts in Australia and internationally, particularly through the National Portrait Gallery, and to the community through a range of philanthropic endeavours.
In 2023, Darling was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Monash University.
Tim Fairfax AC
Tim Fairfax AC is a company director, pastoralist and philanthropist.
Fairfax is Chair of the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal and the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. He is also the Director of the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation and Ningana Giving Pty Ltd.
Fairfax is President of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation, a member of the National Portrait Gallery Foundation, the National Gallery of Australia Foundation and Australian Schools Plus.
He is Patron of the AMAQ Foundation, the University of the Sunshine Coast Foundation, the Australia Rural Leadership Foundation, Actors’ & Entertainers’ Benevolent Fund (QLD) Inc. and Cultural Patron of Flying Arts Alliance Inc. Fairfax takes an active leadership role in promoting philanthropy in Australia and is passionate about supporting rural, remote and regional communities.
His business interests included operating several rural properties in Queensland and New South Wales involved beef cattle, fine wool and grain.
John Liangis
John Liangis is a Director of Liangis Investment Pty Ltd and a lifelong resident of Canberra. He is a graduate of the Canberra School of Art (BA (VA) Painting).
For several years after completing his studies, he pursued a full-time career in painting and exhibited with the Canberra Contemporary Art Space and Gallery Constantinople. Liangis has an in-depth knowledge of and passion for classical architecture, painting, portraiture, photography, music and cinema.
The Liangis family supports various philanthropic causes and charitable organisations within the Canberra region and are Founding Benefactors of the National Portrait Gallery.
Sam Meers AO (Chair, National Portrait Gallery)
Sam Meers AO is co-founder and Chair of the Nelson Meers Foundation, a not-for-profit philanthropic foundation.
Meers has extensive experience in the arts and philanthropy sectors and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2018.
She is currently Chair of the Brett Whiteley Foundation and a Director of Environmental Leadership Australia. Her board appointments have included Chair of Belvoir St Theatre; Chair of Documentary Australia; Deputy Chair of the Federal Government’s Creative Partnerships Australia; Deputy Chair of Philanthropy Australia; a Trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW; and Board member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the State Library of NSW Foundation.
Meers began her career as a commercial lawyer, and holds degrees in Law and Arts and a Master of Letters from the University of Sydney. She is a member of Chief Executive Women, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Royal Society of NSW.
Dr Helen Nugent AC
Dr Helen Nugent AC has had extensive involvement in the arts.
From 2012-21, she was Chair of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and has also been Chair of the Federal Government’s National Opera Review; the Major Performing Arts Inquiry; and the Major Performing Arts Board. She has been Deputy Chair of the Australia Council and Opera Australia. In 2013, Nugent was awarded the Richard Pratt Business Arts Leadership Award.
Nugent gives back to the community in other areas. In education, she was previously Chancellor of Bond University and President of Cranbrook School. In disability and health, she was Chair of the National Disability Insurance Agency and a Director of the Garvan Institute for Medical Research. She is also on the Board of the Australian Olympic Foundation, with the Australian Olympic Committee awarding her an Order of Merit in 2021.
Nugent is currently Chair of Ausgrid; Senior Independent Director of TPG Telecom; a Non-Executive Director of the Insurance Australia Group; Chair of the Order of Australia Foundation; a member of the Global Advisory Board of UST; and an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for Australia-India Relations. Nugent was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2022 and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Queensland and Bond University.
Nugent joined the National Portrait Gallery Foundation in 2014 when it was first established after she oversaw the Gallery’s becoming a statutory authority.
Elizabeth Pakchung
Elizabeth Pakchung is an Australian company director, corporate lawyer and supporter of fashion, art and architecture.
Pakchung is a Director of Bundanon Trust, H&M Australia and New Zealand (part of the global fashion H&M group), Deputy Chair of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Deputy Chair of the Contemporary Asian Australian Performance, Director of the Oranges & Sardines Foundation and a member of the National Gallery of Australia’s Ethics Advisory Group.
Pakchung is a support of Australia at the Venice Biennale, a Patron of the Sherman Centre for Culture & Ideas, and a member of the International Women’s Forum Australia.
Prior to her director career, Pakchung was a corporate lawyer at global law firm Ashurst (formerly Blake Dawson) for over 25 years, including Partner for over 15 years, where she specialized in mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets and corporate governance.
Pakchung is also a former General Counsel of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.
Nigel Satterley AM
Nigel Satterley AM is the Chief Executive and founder of Satterley, with 45 years’ experience in homebuilding, real estate and property development.
Satterley is the largest private residential land developer in Australia with an annual sales turnover of around $1.2bn. It has been involved in 225 residential communities, sold more than 130,000 lots and won 120+ international, national and state industry awards.
Controlling a land bank with an end-value of $8.5bn, Satterley operates across Western Australia, Victoria and Queensland.
Nigel Satterley is a sought-after industry expert on Australian residential housing markets and cycles, taking on advisory roles to the Australian Federal Government and working with all levels of government to improve housing affordability.
In 2006, Satterley received membership of the Order of Australia for his contribution to land development, urban renewal programs, charity, medical research and sport. In 2015, he was honoured with a Doctor of Business from Edith Cowan University for his contribution to the WA housing industry and philanthropy. In 2023, Satterley was the 25th Australian to be inducted into the Property Council Hall of Fame.
