Ian Macoun

Mr Macoun has been the Managing Director and Chair of PIML since 2006. Mr Macoun's career to date has included more than 30 years as the CEO and chief investment officer of investment management firms, including the establishment of Australia's 'multi-boutique' funds management firm (Perennial Investment Partners - founding Managing Director from 1998), building a new investment corporation (Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) - inaugural Chief Executive from 1988), and the management of a major Australian bank's investment operation (Westpac Investment Management; Managing Director from 1993). Mr Macoun's early experience, in more than 10 years at Queensland Treasury, included involvement with Australian and International financial market participants, and the Queensland Government's commercial participation in industrial development projects during the late 1970s and the 1980s. He was Assistant Under Treasurer when he moved to build and lead QIC.