Principal at Andrew McRobert and Associates
January 1997 to January 2000 ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) Senior Investment Officer, Risk Management, Private Sector Group (PSG) 1983-1991 Various positions in commercial banking in Australia 1977 - 1983 Citicorp Australia Limited 1972 - 1977 Coopers & Lybrand, Chartered Accountants DIRECTORSHIPS Former: 1. Director, Xiamen International Bank, Xiamen, PRC 2. Director & Honorary Treasurer, Forsight Foundation for Deaf/Blind 3. Advisory Board Director, Pan African Infrastructure Development Fund
Currently: Committee member, Risk & Audit Committee, South African Red Cross Society
Honors Degree in Business Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (BBS)
Qualified as Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (resigned 2001)
Elected Fellow of the Securities Institute of Australia (FSIA) in 2001
Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) (2002)
Completed AICD Company Directors Course (April 2003), passed the Company Directors Course, and was awarded an Order of Merit with Pass grading (GAICD)
Granted MA by Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 2011
Developed and presented a 2-day credit and loan administration course for the OPEC Fund for International Development (‘OFID’).
Developed and presented a 3-day SME banking course for Saudi-Hollandia Bank in Riyadh. Appointed facilitator for the “Fundamentals of Directorship” program by the Australian Institute of Company Directors (‘AICD’).
Appointed facilitator for a short-form course in reading & understanding financial statements by Governance Institute of Australia (formerly Company Secretaries Australia). Developed a 5-day credit course for Crown Agents (UK) and presented it twice in Accra, Ghana.
Converted an existing Risk Management Association program ‘Building Small Business Loan Relationships’ for Australian application; Converted an existing Standard & Poor’s program ‘Developing a Corporate Credit Rationale” for Asian application;
Andrew ran the program 9 times in Australia, Singapore & Hong Kong. Created and wrote a 1-day seminar to assist lawyers to read & understand financial statements called “Financial Literacy for Lawyers, Directors, and Investors”, published by Thomson- Reuters. Created, wrote & presented a 3-day seminar for a bank in Indonesia: “Credit in the Indonesian Textile, Clothing & Footwear Sector”.
Wrote the Corporate Finance module for a securities industry training program for the Hong Kong Securities Institute. Wrote and presented, as part of a Securities Institute of Australia (SIA) team, a complete securities industry training curriculum to the Stock Exchange of Sri Lanka, funded by the World Bank.
In South Africa, the largest banking group described the "Advanced Corporate Credit" seminar as "probably the best of its kind in the world” and commissioned Andrew to present it to their entire corporate banking group in 1994.
Principal trainer for the SIA in credit and financial analysis seminars for the public seminars division of the SIA. Designed, developed, and chaired a major two-day seminar in Sydney entitled "From the public sector into the private sector", dealing with the issues involved in developing and implementing corporatization and privatization for public sector assets.