Anthony Pratt

Anthony Pratt is Global Chairman of Visy, the world’s largest privately-owned packaging, paper and recycling company.

Visy employs more than 5500 people in Australasia and a further 3500 in the USA. Group sales exceed $US 3 billion.

Visy - known as Pratt Industries in the USA - has been named Australia’s leading company for environmental performance four times since 2000.

Anthony graduated from Monash University, Melbourne, with a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) in 1982. After graduation he joined the consulting firm of McKinsey & Co, before joining Visy.

In 1991 he moved to the United States to spearhead the family’s business expansion into America, where he built Pratt Industries USA to a one billion dollar company and now employs more US citizens than any other Australian company.

In 2007 he made a commitment at President Clinton’s Global Initiative in New York City to invest $1 billion in clean energy and recycling infrastructure over the next 10 years.

Anthony, 52, is firmly committed to environmental causes, and has been honored for his efforts by Mikhail Gorbachev’s Global Green USA and Ted Turner’s Captain Planet Foundation.

He is also a member of the Climate Group, a leading international environmental group founded by former British prime minister Tony Blair.

Anthony also sits on the National Board of the Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center in Louisville, Kentucky, and is active in numerous charity organizations throughout Australia and the U.S.

He divides his time between Melbourne and Atlanta, where Visy and Pratt are headquartered respectively, with his partner Claudine Revere son Leon and daughter Lilly.