McKeon appointed chair of CSIRO board

Simon McKeon, executive director and chair of corporate finance at Macquarie Bank, has been appointed chair of the CSIRO board. McKeon has degrees in law and commerce from the University of Melbourne and prior to joining Macquarie, practised as a solicitor with Blake Dawson Waldron. He has been founding president of the Australian Takeovers Panel since 1999 and is chair of MS Research Australia.