Person

Hooke, John Anthony Lionel (1933 - 2018)

CBE

Born
6 June 1933
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
20 October 2018
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Company director, Engineer and Philanthropist

Summary

John Hooke was an engineer whose career at Amalgamated Wireless Australasia began in the early 1950s and ended with a 15-years term as Chairman from 1974 to 1988. Early in his career he screened first experimental television broadcast in Australia; later he was involved in the provision of the signal that relayed first moon landing. Hooke served on the boards of a number of prominent Australian technology companies, including Broken Hill Propriety Company Limited. He was also heavily involved in the University of Sydney, including as council member and Deputy President of the Science Foundation for Physics, and a foundation board member of the Brain and Mind Centre. In 2011 he gave to the University $5 million to establish both the University of Sydney Nano Institute and the John Hooke Chair in Nanoscience.

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Chronology

1955
Education - BEng, University of Sydney
1974 - 1987
Career position - Chief Executive, Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Ltd
1974 - 1988
Career position - Chairman, Amalgamated Wireless Australasia Ltd
1974 - 1992
Career position - Member, Board of Directors, AMP General Insurance Company
1977
Award - Silver Jubilee Medal, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
1979
Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1981 - 1993
Career position - Member, Board of Directors, Broken Hill Propriety Company Limited
1985 - 1994
Career position - Chairman, Mitsubishi Electric Aging with Attitude Pty Ltd
1986 - 1992
Career position - Chairman, Defence Industry Committee
1986 - 1996
Career position - Chairman, Tubemakers of Australia
1989 - 1997
Career position - Deputy Chairman, General Electric Crane Holdings Ltd
2001
Award - Centenary Medal for service to Australian society in engineering and industrial management

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