Steven Skala

Steven Michael Skala is an Australian investment banker, company director, former lawyer, and philanthropist. he is also chair of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

Early life and education Steven Michael Skala and later at Wadham College at the University of Oxford, England, graduating with a Bachelor of Civil Law degree.

Career From 1980 to 2004 Skala practised as a lawyer in Brisbane, London, and Melbourne.

In July 2017, he was appointed chair of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), an Australian Government corporation focused on investment in clean energy. Skala is still chair.

Cricket As a student at Wadham College, Oxford, Skala played two first-class cricket matches for the university, and also appeared in two List A cricket matches for the Combined Universities side which at that time included players from Oxford and Cambridge Universities only.

As a resident of International House at UQ in 1975, Skala was "the unspoken captain" of the IH cricket team.

In 2015, Skala was awarded the Colleges' UQ Alumni Award.