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Name
  
Bruce Carter


Role
  
Businessman

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Bruce Carter is a prominent South Australian businessman. He is Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a founding partner for the South Australian office of Ferrier Hodgson, and is considered to be one of the state's most influential people.

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Career

Carter was formerly a partner at Ernst & Young and has worked in corporate restructuring and insolvency for over 30 years. Carter has assisted many companies including Harris Scarfe and Balfours and has provided professional advice to the Government of South Australia. He also provided services to the Australian Government during its GST review.

He joined Workcover as Chair in 2003, and five years later told a Parliamentary inquiry into the organisation that within the "first month of being there I realised this was an organisation out of control and that there was a lack of virtually anything you would expect to find in a statutory organisation." He chaired South Australia's Economic Development Board prior to November 2010. By 2011, Carter had developed a reputation as the State Government's "Mr Fix-it".

Memberships

As of 2014, Carter is Chair of the Olympic Dam Task Force Steering Committee, Premier's Climate Change Council and is a member of the Resources & Energy Sector Infrastructure Council (RESIC).

Carter was appointed Chairman of the Premier's Climate Change Council and Chairman of the board of RenewablesSA in 2011.

In 2008-2009, Carter was Chair of the Economic Development Board and the SA Motor Sport Board

He is also currently Chair of shipbuilder Australian Submarine Corporation (ASC) and is Deputy Chair of casino group, SkyCity. He was first appointed to the SkyCity board in 2010. He is also a director of Tarcoola to Darwin railway operator, Genesee & Wyoming Australia. He is the Chair of Territory Insurance Office, Bank of Queensland, Director of Eudunda Farmers Limited and a director of several other private companies.

Education

Carter is an old scholar of Pembroke School, Adelaide and graduated in 1975. He has a degree in economics and a Master of Business Administration.

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