The Hon Nicholas Hugh Minchin

Nick Minchin is the Australian Consul-General in New York and was appointed to this position in 2014.

Prior to this, he held a number of high profile roles in the Australian Government:

• Staff member for the Liberal Party's Federal Secretariat 1977-83, Deputy Federal Director of the Liberal Party in 1983, South Australian State Director and Campaign Director of the Liberal Party 1985-93.
• Elected to the Australian Senate for South Australia in 1993.
• Member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry 1994-96, holding the position of Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, John Howard.
• Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister John Howard 1996-97, Special Minister of State and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister 1997-98, and Minister for Industry, Science and Resources 1998-2001, with a seat in the Cabinet.
• Minister for Finance and Administration from November 2001 until the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election.
• He also held the posts of Leader of the Government in the Senate and Vice-President of the Executive Council.

He was inducted to the University's College of Business and Economics Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame in 2008.