Mark St Leon:
CLASS OF 1961
Encinal Elementary SchoolClass of 1961
Atherton, CA
Menlo-Atherton High SchoolClass of 1968
Atherton, CA
Fremont Elementary SchoolClass of 1961
Menlo park, CA
Mark's Story
Dr Mark Valentine St Leon holds qualifications in economics, business and accounting and teaches in the field of international business education. He studied trumpet at the NSW Conservatorium of Music. Born in Sydney in 1952, Dr St Leon is a fifth-generation Australian and descended from one of Australia’s earliest family of entertainers. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2006 for his dissertation, Circus & Nation. He is the author of Circus: The Australian Story (Melbourne Books, 2011) and several other books as well as numerous articles and monographs that examine the history of circus in Australia. After four years spent with the Zurich and Sydney offices of Price Waterhouse, he joined the Australia Council, the Federal Government’s arts funding and advisory body, as Senior Finance Office...Expand for more
r, 1983-94, where he was responsible for financial health and development of numerous arts organisations throughout Australia. During his term at the Australia Council, he developed position papers on circus for the Theatre Board that led to the first national conference of Australia’s circus people, the Circus Summit, held at the Arts Centre, Melbourne, in 1991. In 1991, he launched the Arts Management Advisory Groups throughout Australia. The Sydney Arts Management Advisory Group [‘SAMAG’] is now in its 27th year of continuous operation. He served as a founding director and member of the Swiss-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1986-92), a director of the Sydney Film Festival (1986-92) and the National Institute of Circus Arts (2001-03) and as a trustee of the online Dictionary of Sydney (2011-13).
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