......Grant Chapman

Personal

Born 27 April 1949
at North Adelaide SA
Married with two children

Education

Prince Alfred College
University of Adelaide: B.A. (Hons)
South Australian Institute of Technology:Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate

Previous Occupations

Self-employed management consultant, 1983-1987
Marketing executive, oil industry, 1971-1975
Primary production interests

Parliamentary Service

Senator for South Australia, Australian Parliament, elected 1987; re-elected 1990, 1996 and 2001

Federal Member for Kingston, House of Representatives, Australian Parliament 1975 to 1983

Temporary Chairman of Committees (Acting Deputy President) in the Senate since 1993

Chairman, Parliamentary Joint Statutory Committee on Corporations and Financial Services

Chairman, Government Industry and Resources Committee

Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade  (1990 - 2002)

Member, Senate Economics Committee

Member, Government Treasury; Agriculture; Education and Science; Employment and Workplace Relations; Transport and Regional Services; and Tourism and Sports Committees.

Member, Senate Select Committee on Superannuation

Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Radioactive Waste (committee operated 1995-1996)

Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Uranium Mining and Milling committee operated (1996-1997)

Member, Federal Parliamentary Christian Fellowship

Founding Member, Society of Modest Members and Lyons Forum

Charter Member, Lions Club of the Australian Parliament

Member of various Parliamentary and Government Committees 1975-1983 and Parliamentary and Opposition Committees 1987-1996

Representing Australia Overseas

Australian Government representative, Inter-Parliamentary Union Council, 2002-2005

Leader, Australian Delegation to Inter Parliamentary Union Conference, Marrakech, Morocco and to Kuwait, March 2002;; Geneva, September 2003; Santiago and Canada, April 2003; Geneva and Latvia October 2003; Mexico City, April 2004; Manila, April 2005.

Vice-President, Parliametary Foundation for Democracy

Leader, Australian parliamentary delegates to Thailand, April 2004

Vice President, United Nations Parliamentary Round Table on Desertification, Dakar, Senegal, December 1998; Recife, Brazil, November 1999 and Bonn, Germany, December 2000;Havana Cuba, September 2003

Member, United Nations Panel of Eminent Persons to Combat Desertification since October 2001, attending Panel meetings in Agadez, Niger, February 2002; WSSD Ministerial Prepcom, Denpasar, Indonesia, May 2002; WSSD, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2002; GRF Council, Beijing, China October 2002.

Chairman, Drafting Committee on Water Resources, Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference, Moscow, August 1998

Leader, Australian Space Industry Delegation to Taiwan, May 1995

Leader, Inaugural Young Political Leaders' Delegation to Japan, October 1992

Leader, International Republican Institute Observer Mission, Hong Kong Legislative Council Elections, October 1991

Keynote Speaker, First Asian Pacific Conference on Juvenile Delinquency, Taipei, Taiwan, November 1979

Leader, Australian delegation, Commonwealth Countries Conference on Government Policy on Youth Affairs, Chandigarh, India, March 1979

Public and Community Activities

Long-standing Member of South Australian Farmers' Federation and currently President, Adelaide Branch

Vice-President, Australian Institute of International Affairs

Pilot Officer, RAAF Reserve

Member and Past Parish Councillor, St Matthew's Anglican Church, Kensington

Member, Advisory Panel, Parents Without Partners

Member, Board of Reference, Living Hope Counselling Service

Board Member, Prince Alfred College Foundation

Board Member, Bible Society

Played A-Grade District Cricket for Kensington; Amateur League Football for P.A.O.C.F.C. Life Member of both organisations

Represented S.A. in National Debating Championships, 1974, 1975 & 1977

Current or past Patron of some two dozen community, youth and sporting organisations