Graham Hodges is Deputy Chief Executive Officer and acting Chief Executive Officer, Australia.

As acting Chief Executive Officer Australia Graham oversees the Australian geography and is specifically responsible for the bank's retail, commercial and wealth management customers in Australia.

Prior to this role, Graham was Chief Executive Officer, New Zealand and a director of ANZ National Bank Limited responsible for the running of ANZ Group's New Zealand business.

Graham has held the positions of Group Managing Director, Corporate, Managing Director, Small to Medium Business and Head of Corporate Banking for Australia and New Zealand.

Other prior roles with ANZ include State Manager, Business Banking for Victoria and Tasmania; and Regional Executive, Business Banking Melbourne. In 1995, Graham led a project team, which designed and rolled out a customer profitability tool for the Business and Institutional Bank.

Graham joined ANZ in 1991 and was appointed Chief Economist in 1992, a post he held for three years.

Before ANZ, Graham spent several years with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and nine years in Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra.

Graham has a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from Monash University.

Last updated: May 2009