Mike Codd | |
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Secretary of the Department of Industrial Relations | |
In office 15 December 1981 –7 May 1982 | |
Secretary of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations | |
In office 7 May 1982 –25 March 1983 | |
Secretary of the Department of Community Services | |
In office 13 March 1985 –10 February 1986 | |
Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet | |
In office 10 February 1986 –27 December 1991 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Michael Henry Codd 1939 (age 85–86) |
Alma mater | University of Adelaide (BEc (Hons)) |
Occupation | Public servant |
Michael Henry Codd AC (born 1939) is a retired Australian senior public servant and university chancellor.
Mike Codd was born in 1939. [1] He attended University of Adelaide,graduating in 1961 with a Bachelor of Economics with honours. [2]
Codd was appointed to his first Secretary role in 1981,becoming head of the Department of Industrial Relations. [3]
Between 1985 and 1986 Codd served as Secretary of the Department of Community Services. [4] [5]
In 1986 he was appointed Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretary. [6] In 1987 he worked with Prime Minister Bob Hawke to introduce massive reform changes to the public service,creating "super ministry" departments. [7] Codd did note potential disadvantages of the machinery of government changes,including that there was potential for "bunker mentality" to continue. [8]
Codd retired from the public service in December 1991, [9] his appointment was terminated by an Executive Council meeting on 27 December that year. [10]
After his retirement from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,Codd joined consultancy firm Coopers and Lybrand. [11] He was also appointed to the board of Qantas in 1992,prior to the airline's privatization,and served 16 years retiring in 2008. [12] Between 1997 and 2009 he was Chancellor of the University of Wollongong (UOW),retiring in September 2009. [13]
In January 1991,Codd was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in recognition of service as secretary to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. [14] He received a Centenary Medal in 2001. [15]
In 2009,the University of Wollongong awarded Mike Codd an honorary degree and in 2010 named a building after him on its Innovation Campus in recognition of his eminent service as the university's second Chancellor. His portrait (by Mathew Lynn,2014) hangs in the Codd building.[ citation needed ]
[Mike Codd] is the architect of the 1987 "machinery of government" changes that brought massive reform to the public service