John Wylie

John Malcolm Rodney Wylie (born 1961) is an Australian investment banker. He was previously managing director and Head of Corporate Advisory of Lazard, Chair of the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust and Chair of the Australian Sports Commission. He was President of the State Library of Victoria Board until 2021. Personal

Wylie was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1961. He stepped down as head of Lazard Advisory in Australia at the end of 2014.

Sport

Wylie was Chairman of the Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust from 1998 to March 2013. In 1999, he negotiated a deal where MCG received $5 million a year from the Australian Football League for 30 years. From 2001 to 2006, as chairman, he oversaw the Ground's $465 million redevelopment for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games He announced a new elite sport strategy for Australian sport called Winning Edge 2012–2022. His term as Chair finished in November 2020.

Wylie's passion for sport also includes playing cricket and marathon running, accredited cricket coach, coaching his sons' cricket team, attending Caulfield Bears junior football club games, Chairman of the Victorian Olympic Council Foundation Committee and Deputy President of Melbourne Stars.

Community Besides his sport appointments, he was Honorary Treasurer of the Florey Neurosciences Institutes between 2007 and 2009. He is a Trustee Emeritus of the Global Rhodes Trust.

In 2006, Wylie walked the Kokoda Trail with a group called "Once Were Warriors". Members of the group included prominent Australians Simon Crean, Ron Barassi, Paul Little and John Bertrand. Wylie was promoted to Companion (AC) in the 2022 Australia Day Honours for "eminent service to the community through leadership in the sporting, cultural, philanthropic and business sectors".

In January 2015, it was announced that Wylie and his wife had donated $5 million to the University of Melbourne to establish a professorship of Australian literature.