David Ross

Mr David Ross was appointed the CLC Director following a meeting of the CLC Executive in January 2000. It is the second time he has held the position as Director.

Mr Ross left the CLC in 1994 to become a Commissioner of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and 18 months later became the Chairman of the Indigenous Land Corporation based in Adelaide.

He started work at the Central Land Council in 1979 in a clerical position. From 1981 he was field operations manager and from 1983 until 1985 he was secretary to the Council.

In 1987 he completed an Associate Diploma in Business Management at the South Australian Institute of Technology before taking up the Deputy Director's position and then becoming Director in 1989.

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