Fellows of Senate

Mr Alexander (Alec) Norman Brennan

Mr Alec Brennan is a Fellow of Senate of the University of Sydney appointed by the Minister for Education and Training, Pro Chancellor and Chair of the following Senate committees:

• Finance and Audit Committee
• Human Resources Committee

Mr Brennan was Chair of Senate's former Finance and Infrastructure Committee and Remuneration and Benefits Committee, and a member of the Selection Committee for a new Vice-Chancellor to replace Professor Gavin Brown on his retirement.

Mr Brennan's terms of office as a Fellow of Senate:

• term 1: 1 January 2006 - 31 December 2009 (four years)
• term 2: 1 January 2010 - 31 December 2013 (four years) - current term

Mr Brennan's term/s of office as a chair of Senate committees:

• Chair, Finance and Audit Committee, 2010 - current term
• Chair, Human Resources Committee, 2010 - current term
• Chair, the former Finance and Infrastructure Committee, 2006 - 2010
• Chair, the former Remuneration and Benefits Committee, 2006 - 2010

Mr Brennan's term/s of office as Pro Chancellor:

• term 1: 27 June 2011 - the June 2014 meeting of Senate (two years) - current term

Profile

BSc ((Food Technology) UNSW MBA City(UK)
Fellow of Senate, 2006 -

Mr Brennan retired from the position of CEO and Managing Director of CSR Limited in 2007. Prior to his appointment in 2003, Alec was Deputy CEO and head of strategy at CSR where he was responsible for developing and then implementing its restructure which led in 2003 to the demerger of Rinker Group as a separate company.

Alec joined CSR as a Research Scientist in 1969. During his long career he has held general management roles in CSR businesses involved in sugar refining, aluminium, building products and construction materials. More recently he has had general management roles in both finance and strategy.

He has been a director of CSR since 1996.

Alec is a director of the Garvan Research Foundation and of Emeco Limited.