Raymond Griffin

Chair

Raymond Griffin is an experienced director, non-executive director and Chair, with extensive financial planning sector expertise and board experience in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Ray is a past Chairman and Life Member of the Financial Planning Association of Australia and an influential commentator in the Australian financial planning profession. In 2003 he served as Chairman of the International Council of Certified Financial Planners, an organisation with 25 member countries. 

Ray has been an Adjunct Lecturer for Western Sydney University’s Master of Commerce (Financial Planning) degree, is a member of the financial planning degree curriculum development committee at the University of New England, Armidale, and a contributing author to the leading academic text for undergraduate and postgraduate financial planning students in Australia.

Experience in governance and strategic leadership, including in two international standards-setting organisations, has convinced Ray that strength and effectiveness arises when boards have directors with diverse competencies and experiences.

Ray is strongly interested in community based organisations that seek to improve people’s lives. He previously co-founded the annual Corners for Kids Motorcycle Rally, which by 2019 had raised more than $1 million, and in 2007 he instigated establishment of the Future2 Foundation, the charitable foundation of the Financial Planning Association of Australia. His interest in the Australian Opal Centre was piqued by its aims around generation of economic and social benefit. 

Ray holds an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Diploma of Financial Services. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is currently undertaking a PhD through Griffith University, researching the efficacy of financial planning legislation reform in Australia since 1988. He lives near Tamworth in NSW.