FED: Sir Rod Eddington to chair infrastructure taskforce

AAP General News (Australia)
02-26-2008
FED: Sir Rod Eddington to chair infrastructure taskforce

CANBERRA, Feb 26 AAP - Former airline chief Sir Rod Eddington will chair the new federal
government body Infrastructure Australia.

"I am very pleased to have someone of Sir Rod Eddington's calibre as chair of Infrastructure
Australia," Transport Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement today.

Perth-born Sir Rod, who is now a director of a number of leading companies, has plenty
of experience in transport, as former head of British Airways, Ansett and Cathay Pacific.

In 2006 he headed a …