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Mr Garry Hunt

Mr Garry Hunt

Garry Hunt has been appointed to Senate by the Governor for a second term, expiring on 3 July 2010. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of the City of Joondalup.  He was Chief Executive Officer of the City of Perth from 1994 – 2002. Prior to that he was City Manager of the City of Melville from 1986-94.

A graduate in business and local government, Garry is a Fellow of the Local Government Managers Australia (LGMA) and of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM). He is a former President of the Western Australian Institute of Municipal Management (now LGMA) and has served on the National Board of the Institute of Municipal Management (IMM). In 1998 Garry received a Public Service Medal in the Australia Day Awards for his contribution to Local Government Management.

He has served on numerous State Ministerial Advisory groups within WA, dealing with local government matters including the Structural Reform Advisory Committee and the Local Government Advisory Board. Garry was the International Vice President (International) of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) based in Washington DC, from 1997-2000.

In the period 2002 to 2005 he specialised in overseas consulting, and completed assignments in South Africa and Malaysia. His consulting projects include capacity building, skills development, coaching and mentoring, re-engineering government systems and procedures, and assisting companies to work their way through the myriad of government processes impacting on major developments.

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