Melbourne International Arts Festival

DIRECTOR

Peter Wilson Yates was appointed to the Melbourne International Arts Festival Board in February 2009.

Peter Yates is a Director and member of the Peony Capital General Partnership and a Director of Allco Equity Partners Limited.  Peony Capital is a China based carbon credit fund, initially funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

From 2004-2007 Peter was Managing Director of Allco Equity Partners Limited, a listed private equity fund specialising in private equity and activist corporate situations.  Peter was Chief Executive Officer of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited from 2001-2004.  Until 2001 he worked in the Investment Banking industry including 15 years with Macquarie Bank.  Peter has also worked for Morgan Stanley in Australia and Booz Allen Hamilton in Tokyo.  He holds a Doctorate of the University (Murdoch) and a Masters degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Commerce degree from Melbourne.  He speaks Japanese, having studied at Keio University in Tokyo.

Peter is Chairman of the Australian Science Media Centre; Deputy Chairman of Asialink; a Board Member of the National Portrait Gallery, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation (Victoria); Peter is a Director of The Centre for Independent Studies.