Graeme Samuel quits NSX over governance

Michael Roddan, Joe Aston and Jonathan Shapiro

Updated Aug 13, 2021 – 2.59pm, first published at 10.30am

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Former competition watchdog chief Graeme Samuel has abruptly quit the board of the National Stock Exchange just four months after he was appointed as director, citing frustration with a mooted governance overhaul.

In a brief statement to the market on Friday, NSX Limited said it had “been advised that Graeme Samuel has resigned as a director from the boards of NSXL and the National Stock Exchange of Australia effective today”.

Michael Roddan is a Walkley Award-winning national correspondent based in Sydney. He is a former business and economics reporter for The Australian.

Joe Aston is the founder of Rampart and the best-selling author of The Chairman’s Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out. From 2012 to 2023, Joe helmed The Australian Financial Review’s Rear Window column.

Jonathan Shapiro writes about banking and finance, specialising in hedge funds, corporate debt, private equity and investment banking. He is based in Sydney.