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Gary Francis Neat (born 27 October 1948) is an Australian business leader and company director. He is a former journalist and senior political figure.
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Neat is chair of the ADSHAN Group and the former national president of the Australian Institute of Management.
He was a Chevening Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and has a master's degree in management from the Norwegian School of Management. Attended Newcastle Boys' High School.
He is a life fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and was a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Institute of Public Administration Australia (Vic) and the Australian Marketing Institute. Neat has been awarded 5 Australian Marketing Awards and was chairman of the Australian Marketing Industry Review.
Among some 20 directorships, he was formerly a director of Greening Australia, a director of the Adult Community & Further Education Board, a director of the Joint Accreditation System for Australia & New Zealand and a vice president of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in Victoria. He was also Australia’s representative on Asia’s major business forum – AAMO.
Neat was state director of the Liberal Party in Queensland for 7 years and directed more than 20 election campaigns. He was a member of the Liberal Party’s Federal Executive and ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1987. He published “The New Politics” in 1987.
Neat was a senior journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for 16 years, including assignments as a foreign correspondent in Asia during the 1970s in Indochina, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong andthe Philippines. He was a Political Correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a producer with the BBC in London.