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Andrew Forrest

John Andrew Henry Forrest AO (born 18 November 1961), nicknamed Twiggy, is an Australian businessman. He is best known as the former CEO (and current non-executive chairman) of Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), and has other interests in the mining industry and in cattle stations.

Andrew Forrest

Forrest in 2017
Born
John Andrew Henry Forrest

(1961-11-18) 18 November 1961 (age 61)
Education
Alma materUniversity of Western Australia
Occupation(s)Non-executive chairman, Fortescue Metals Group
SpouseNicola Maurice
Children4
Relatives
Awards
Notes

With an assessed net worth of A$33.29 billion according to the Financial Review 2023 Rich List, Forrest was ranked as the second richest Australian.[5] According to the Financial Review, Forrest was the richest person in Australia in 2008.[6][7]

In 2013, Andrew and Nicola Forrest, his wife, were the first Australian billionaires to pledge the majority of their wealth to charity in their lifetimes.[8] He had earlier stepped down as CEO of Fortescue Metals in 2011.[9] Much of the Forrest's philanthropy has been through either the Minderoo Foundation (focusing on education and Indigenous Australians) or the Walk Free Foundation (focusing on ending modern slavery), both of which he established. Forrest has been accused of avoiding paying company tax, having revealed in 2011 that Fortescue had never paid company tax.[10]

Early life Edit

John Andrew Henry Forrest[11] was born on 18 November 1961[12] in Perth, Western Australia,[12] the youngest of three children of Judith (née Fry) and Donald Forrest.[13] His father, grandfather (Mervyn), and great-grandfather (David) were all managers of Minderoo Station, which David had established in 1878 with his brothers, Alexander and John.[14] John, Alexander, David, and Mervyn were all members of parliament for periods, with John serving as Western Australia's first premier.[15][16] Forrest's early years were spent at Minderoo, located in the Pilbara region south of Onslow.[14] Minderoo was owned by the Forrest family until it was sold in 1998 by his father due to relentless drought and debt,[13] but it was bought back by Forrest in 2009.[17][18]

Forrest was educated at Onslow Primary School[13] and through the School of the Air before moving to Perth to attend Christ Church Grammar School and then Hale School.[19] He stuttered as a child,[13] which is how he came to develop a relationship with Ian Black, whose Aboriginal father, Scotty,[20] became Forrest's mentor. Forrest went on to the University of Western Australia[21] where he majored in economics and politics.[22]

In 1991 Forrest married Nicola Maurice, daughter of Tony Maurice who was a major figure in the Australian League of Rights. Nicola's sister, Katrina, is the wife of David Thompson who was the leader of the New Zealand League of Rights in the early 1980s and the leader of the Australian League of Rights during the 1990s. Forrest and David Thompson became friendly associates with Forrest appointing Thompson to a managerial role while he was on the board at Anaconda Nickel.[23][24][25][26][27]

Career Edit

Anaconda Nickel Edit

After graduating, Forrest worked as a stockbroker at the brokerage houses Kirke Securities and Jacksons. After noticing that the demand for stainless steel was rising at 4 per cent a year, he quit stockbroking and got into nickel mining by founding Anaconda Nickel.[28] He became the founding CEO of Anaconda Nickel in 1993, after buying a stake in the company.[29][30] However, in 2001 he was ousted as CEO when the company almost collapsed.[30] US bondholders received $0.26 for each dollar of debt in the restructuring.[30] The company's shares fell by 89% before it was taken over by Glencore and renamed Minara Resources.[30]

Fortescue Metals Edit

In April 2003, he took control of Allied Mining and Processing, which had rights to iron ore in the Pilbara, and renamed it Fortescue Metals Group (FMG).[31] He remains a major shareholder of FMG, through his private company, The Metal Group.[32]

One of Forrest's initial mines in the Pilbara produced and shipped $50 billion worth in iron ore, without ever providing compensation or receiving permission from the Yindjibarndi people to carry out mining on their land. The operations in the area destroyed about 250 cultural and sacred sites.[33]

Fortescue made its first iron ore shipment to China in May 2008. Fortescue increased its capacity to 155 million tonnes per annum through a $9.2 billion expansion in 2014.[12] Since then, the company has grown to possess three times the tenements of its nearest rival in Western Australia's iron ore rich Pilbara region. Fortescue holds major deposits at Mount Nicholas, Christmas Creek, Cloudbreak, and Tongolo. In 2007, he took an interest and a directorship in Niagara Mining Limited, renamed Poseidon Nickel Limited, which had in 2006 acquired from WMC the Windara nickel deposits near Laverton, Western Australia.[34][35]

Forrest described the Gillard government proposed Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) as "economic vandalism"[36] and a "mad dog's breakfast"[37] that would drive up foreign resource ownership.[38] He stated he would challenge it in the High Court as being unconstitutional, as it discriminates against states, and fails to appropriately capture big producers BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.[39] WA premier Colin Barnett has stated the state government would back constitutional action,[37] admitting the tax had been suggested to him as a "sovereign risk". He was highly critical of the government's expenditure of $38M on an advertising campaign, that was not approved using the usual processes, as it had to "counter mining industry 'spin' about the resources super profits tax".[13]

The former treasurer Wayne Swan said the big miners would pay at least A$2 billion tax, and wrote to the head of BDO Accounting, who modelled the claims Forrest used, noting they were "utterly unrealistic" and riddled with errors.[40] Treasury concurred that they would be unable to release the assumptions underpinning its forecasts, as they were based on confidential information provided by the big miners.[40] Gillard struck a deal with BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata to develop the MRRT.[41] Independent MP Andrew Wilkie requested the government take Forrest's mining tax grievance to heart.[37]

In August 2021, it was announced that Forrest would receive a $2.4 billion dividend on Fortescue's record profit.[42]

Tattarang Edit

Tattarang is the holding company for the Forrest family’s private business interests. Tattarang invests in a diverse range of businesses across agri-food, energy, health technology, property, resources, and lifestyle. The group is made up of six business divisions: Fiveight, Harvest Road, Squadron Energy, Tenmile, Wyloo Metals and Z1Z.[43]

Global Rapid Rugby Edit

Following SANZAAR's decision to reduce the number of Super Rugby teams for 2018, the Australian Rugby Union (now Rugby Australia) announced in August 2017 that Perth-based rugby team Western Force would be one of the teams cut from the 2018 competition. In the following month, Forrest announced that he would create a new tournament called the Indo Pacific Rugby Championship which would include the Western Force and five other teams from the Indo-Pacific region.[44] For the 2018 season, the competition was launched as World Series Rugby, played as a series of exhibition matches as the precursor to a wider Asia-Pacific competition planned for 2019.[45]

The competition was rebranded in November 2018 as Global Rapid Rugby. A season of fourteen matches was played in 2019. The 2020 Global Rapid Rugby season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic after only one completed round of competition.[46]

Cattle industry Edit

After buying back the family property, Minderoo Station in 2009 Forrest acquired the adjoining properties, Nanutarra and Uaroo Stations in 2014, increasing his total pastoral holdings in the Pilbara to 7,300 square kilometres (2,819 sq mi).[47] In August 2015 he acquired both Brick House Station and Minilya Station for an estimated A$10 million, bringing his total pastoral holdings to over 10,000 square kilometres (3,861 sq mi).[48]

In 2020, Forrest acquired both Quanbun and neighbouring property, Jubilee Downs, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia for over A$30 million.[49]

Allied Medical Edit

In 2005, a medical equipment distribution company called Allied Medical was spun out of Fortescue Metals Group.[50] Forrest was a director of the company.[50] In June 2011, Allied Medical, of which Forrest owned a 46 percent stake in, was acquired by biotechnology company BioMD.[51] Forrest retained an approximate 17–18 percent stake in the combined company, Allied Healthcare Group, after the takeover.[52] Allied Healthcare Group eventually became structural heart company Anteris Technologies.[53][54]

Recognition and honours Edit

Forrest has an Australian Centenary Medal, Australian Sports Medal, was awarded the 2017 Western Australian of the Year Award, and the 2018 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Alumni Social Impact Award.[55]

In 2017 Forrest was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the mining sector, to the development of employment and business opportunities, as a supporter of sustainable foreign investment, and to philanthropy.[1]

In 2019 Forrest was awarded a PhD in Marine Science from the University of Western Australia,[56] and has a strong interest in maintaining the health of the oceans.[57]

Other roles Edit

Forrest is well-connected in political, business, and sporting circles.[58] He is an adjunct professor at the Chinese Southern University and a fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy. He is a former director of Australia's Export Finance and Insurance Corporation and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia, and former chairman of Athletics Australia.[59]

He has addressed the Queensland University of Technology,[60] and Christians in the Marketplace.[61] He gave the 2020 Boyer Lecture to outline a case for hydrogen energy and ways to manage human impacts on the oceans.[57]

Philanthropy Edit

Andrew and Nicola Forrest made The Giving Pledge in 2013, stating:[62][63]

"We hope to help empower individuals and families currently suffering the despair of poverty, slavery and the lack of opportunity for themselves and their children. We feel that if we all do whatever we can with whatever we have, large or small, then each of us will help make our world a more equitable and positive environment for others to thrive in."

— Andrew and Nicola Forrest, February 2013

Indigenous Australians Edit

After stepping down as chief executive officer of FMG, Forrest noted that he had been spending more than 50% of his time on Indigenous philanthropy.[9][64] Forrest became an ambassador for the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.[65] Encouraged by the philanthropy of the Rockefeller Group, Warren Buffett, and Melinda and Bill Gates,[66] Andrew and Nicola Forrest established the Australian Children's Trust in 2001.[59]

Through the influence of Scotty Black, Forrest started the GenerationOne project,[67][20] with assistance from James Packer and Kerry Stokes, who each donated A$2 million, along with the support of their respective media stations, Channel 9 and Channel 7.[68] GenerationOne and the Australian Children's Trust help to create sustainable solutions on addressing social disadvantage.[69] With Kevin Rudd, Forrest launched the Australian Employment Covenant,[69] that campaigned for businesses to hire Indigenous Australians, as they could "add value" to Australian businesses because they were "professional and reliable and wonderful" and that there is no reason for Indigenous disparity.[20][70] GenerationOne ran a series of television advertisements privately funded by Forrest, Packer and Stokes.[71] Between 2008 and 2011, Forrest obtained 253 business signatories to his covenant.[70] With Rudd, Forrest planned to employ 50,000 Aboriginal people.[72][73] As the two-year deadline approached, estimates put the number of Indigenous job placements under the scheme at around 2,800, well short of the original goal.[74]

Forrest is opposed to welfare dependency for Indigenous Australians.[75] He has recounted stories of young Aboriginal girls in the Pilbara offering men sex for cigarettes, leading to five indigenous women from the region collectively lodging a complaint with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission that Forrest's comment was racist and vilified the community.[76] Forrest has been publicly accused of engaging in questionable methods of land acquisition,[77][78] and has had accusations levelled at his company for failing Indigenous trainees at FMG's vocational training centre in Port Hedland.[79]

In 2013, Forrest was chosen to lead an Australian Government review into Indigenous employment and training programs.[80] Delivered on 1 August 2014 with 27 recommendations,[81] the review proposed the creation of the Cashless Welfare Card.[82]

Slavery and human trafficking Edit

Forrest's daughter, Grace volunteered at an orphanage in Nepal and discovered the children she had looked after had been trafficked to be sex slaves in the Middle East. This distressed Grace and motivated her father to act.[83][84] Grace, aged 21 years, said at a 2014 interfaith meeting held at the Vatican, "I feel like a puppet for hundreds of thousands of girls who are voiceless – if I can stand for them, that is what I'm here to do."[85]

Forrest established the Walk Free Foundation in 2010 to fight modern slavery.[86] In 2013 the organisation launched the Global Slavery Index ranking 162 countries "based on a combined measure of three factors: estimated prevalence of modern slavery by population, a measure of child marriage, and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country".[87] The Index estimates there are 29 million slaves worldwide, roughly half in India and Pakistan.[84] In January 2014, Forrest announced a deal with Pakistan to do away with more than two million slaves in return for cheap coal.[88]

Forrest founded the Global Freedom Network that the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar lead. The Global Freedom Network works to stop all religious faiths from using organisations involved with slavery in their supply chain.[83]

When I heard the news [that all parties had agreed to the venture] I have to admit I became emotional. This is going to change everything. This is set up like a high-achieving, measurement-driven, totally target-oriented company, it's like a hard-edged business. We are out to defeat slavery, we are not out to feel good. This is our mission. You see the complete hopelessness in the eyes [of enslaved people]. It’s like I’m stuck, I will never get help, I am dirt. Then you know that you can’t rest until you free them.

— Andrew Forrest, interviewed in 2014

In 2014 Andrew and Grace Forrest attended a meeting held in the Vatican, being a Joint Religious Leaders Declaration Against Modern Slavery. The anti-slavery declaration was signed by Pope Francis, Mata Amritanandamayi, Justin Welby, Thích Nhất Hạnh, K. Sri Dhammananda, David Rosen, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Abraham Skorka, Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb, Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi, Basheer Hussain al-Najafi, and Omar Abboud – religious leaders representing forms of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.[85] Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, urged consumers to demand more information about whether forced labour was involved in goods they bought.[89]

Other philanthropic interests Edit

As of September 2007, Forrest had injected A$90 million into his children's charity.[66] Philanthropic activity has included gifts to his alma mater, Hale School;[90] participation in the St Vincent de Paul Society CEO sleepouts;[91] and a gift from the proceeds of the sale of 5,000 tonnes (5,500 short tons) of iron ore to the Chinese earthquake relief effort.[92] In October 2013 it was announced that Forrest was to donate A$65 million towards higher education in Western Australia. At the time the sum was believed to be the highest philanthropic donation in Australia, with most going toward funding scholarships.[93]

The Minderoo Foundation, Forrest's private foundation, was renamed as the Minderoo Group is to be expanded to include higher education contributions. The foundation has given A$270 million through the foundation since 2001.[93] In 2014, Andrew and Nicola Forrest pledged A$65 million over ten years through the Minderoo Foundation, establishing the Forrest Research Foundation to offer scholarships to students pursuing a PhD at a Western Australian university.[94][95] In 2017 Forrest donated A$400 million to medical research and social causes,[96] and in 2019 donated a further A$655 million to expand the existing work of the Minderoo Foundation in areas including cancer research, early childhood development, ocean health, and eliminating modern slavery, the largest ever living donation by any Australian philanthropist.[97]

Personal life Edit

Forrest is a Christian[92] and has four children: Grace, Sophia, Matilda and Sydney.[98][99] In July 2023, after 31 years of marriage, Andrew and Nicola announced their separation. This will not affect their company.[100][101]

Forrest purchased the 58.2-metre (191 ft) superyacht Pangaea in 2018. Built by US shipyard Halter Marine in 1999, the yacht is registered in Montego Bay, Jamaica.[102] Forrest turned the yacht into an ocean research vessel for the Minderoo Foundation, with multiple laboratories and specialist research equipment installed since its purchase.[103]

In December 2015, Forrest purchased the heritage-listed Tukurua mansion in Cottesloe for $16 million.[104] The Forrest family housed refugees at the home for a period of time after the purchase. A restoration and development of additional buildings was completed in 2019.[105][106] In 2022, Forrest purchased the nearby heritage-listed Le Fanu House.[107]

Net worth Edit

Year Financial Review
Rich List
Forbes
Australia's 50 Richest
Rank Net worth (A$) Rank Net worth (US$)
2011[7][108] 3   $6.18 billion  
2012[109][110] 4   $5.89 billion  
2013[111][112][113] 9   $3.66 billion  
2014[114][115][116] 7   $5.86 billion  
2015[117][118] 9   $2.83 billion  
2016[119] 8   $3.33 billion  
2017[120][121] 6   $6.84 billion  
2018[122][121] 8   $6.10 billion  
2019[123][124] 8   $7.99 billion  
2020[125] 2   $23.00 billion  
2021[4] 2   $27.25 billion  
2022 2   $30.70 billion  
2023[5] 2   $33.29 billion  
Legend
Icon Description
  Has not changed from the previous year
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andrew, forrest, this, article, weighted, heavily, toward, only, aspect, subject, please, help, introducing, more, general, information, this, article, feel, free, discuss, issue, talk, page, april, 2019, john, andrew, henry, forrest, born, november, 1961, nic. This article may be weighted too heavily toward only one aspect of its subject Please help by introducing more general information to this article Feel free to discuss the issue on the talk page April 2019 John Andrew Henry Forrest AO born 18 November 1961 nicknamed Twiggy is an Australian businessman He is best known as the former CEO and current non executive chairman of Fortescue Metals Group FMG and has other interests in the mining industry and in cattle stations Andrew ForrestAOForrest in 2017BornJohn Andrew Henry Forrest 1961 11 18 18 November 1961 age 61 Perth Western Australia AustraliaEducationSchool of the AirChrist Church Grammar SchoolHale SchoolAlma materUniversity of Western AustraliaOccupation s Non executive chairman Fortescue Metals GroupSpouseNicola MauriceChildren4RelativesMervyn Forrest grandfather David Forrest great grandfather John Forrest great great uncle Alexander Forrest great great uncle AwardsOfficer of the Order of AustraliaAustralian Sports MedalCentenary MedalNotes 1 2 3 4 With an assessed net worth of A 33 29 billion according to the Financial Review 2023 Rich List Forrest was ranked as the second richest Australian 5 According to the Financial Review Forrest was the richest person in Australia in 2008 6 7 In 2013 Andrew and Nicola Forrest his wife were the first Australian billionaires to pledge the majority of their wealth to charity in their lifetimes 8 He had earlier stepped down as CEO of Fortescue Metals in 2011 9 Much of the Forrest s philanthropy has been through either the Minderoo Foundation focusing on education and Indigenous Australians or the Walk Free Foundation focusing on ending modern slavery both of which he established Forrest has been accused of avoiding paying company tax having revealed in 2011 that Fortescue had never paid company tax 10 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Anaconda Nickel 2 2 Fortescue Metals 2 3 Tattarang 2 4 Global Rapid Rugby 2 5 Cattle industry 2 6 Allied Medical 3 Recognition and honours 4 Other roles 5 Philanthropy 5 1 Indigenous Australians 5 2 Slavery and human trafficking 5 3 Other philanthropic interests 6 Personal life 7 Net worth 8 References 9 External linksEarly life EditJohn Andrew Henry Forrest 11 was born on 18 November 1961 12 in Perth Western Australia 12 the youngest of three children of Judith nee Fry and Donald Forrest 13 His father grandfather Mervyn and great grandfather David were all managers of Minderoo Station which David had established in 1878 with his brothers Alexander and John 14 John Alexander David and Mervyn were all members of parliament for periods with John serving as Western Australia s first premier 15 16 Forrest s early years were spent at Minderoo located in the Pilbara region south of Onslow 14 Minderoo was owned by the Forrest family until it was sold in 1998 by his father due to relentless drought and debt 13 but it was bought back by Forrest in 2009 17 18 Forrest was educated at Onslow Primary School 13 and through the School of the Air before moving to Perth to attend Christ Church Grammar School and then Hale School 19 He stuttered as a child 13 which is how he came to develop a relationship with Ian Black whose Aboriginal father Scotty 20 became Forrest s mentor Forrest went on to the University of Western Australia 21 where he majored in economics and politics 22 In 1991 Forrest married Nicola Maurice daughter of Tony Maurice who was a major figure in the Australian League of Rights Nicola s sister Katrina is the wife of David Thompson who was the leader of the New Zealand League of Rights in the early 1980s and the leader of the Australian League of Rights during the 1990s Forrest and David Thompson became friendly associates with Forrest appointing Thompson to a managerial role while he was on the board at Anaconda Nickel 23 24 25 26 27 Career EditAnaconda Nickel Edit After graduating Forrest worked as a stockbroker at the brokerage houses Kirke Securities and Jacksons After noticing that the demand for stainless steel was rising at 4 per cent a year he quit stockbroking and got into nickel mining by founding Anaconda Nickel 28 He became the founding CEO of Anaconda Nickel in 1993 after buying a stake in the company 29 30 However in 2001 he was ousted as CEO when the company almost collapsed 30 US bondholders received 0 26 for each dollar of debt in the restructuring 30 The company s shares fell by 89 before it was taken over by Glencore and renamed Minara Resources 30 Fortescue Metals Edit Main article Fortescue Metals Group In April 2003 he took control of Allied Mining and Processing which had rights to iron ore in the Pilbara and renamed it Fortescue Metals Group FMG 31 He remains a major shareholder of FMG through his private company The Metal Group 32 One of Forrest s initial mines in the Pilbara produced and shipped 50 billion worth in iron ore without ever providing compensation or receiving permission from the Yindjibarndi people to carry out mining on their land The operations in the area destroyed about 250 cultural and sacred sites 33 Fortescue made its first iron ore shipment to China in May 2008 Fortescue increased its capacity to 155 million tonnes per annum through a 9 2 billion expansion in 2014 12 Since then the company has grown to possess three times the tenements of its nearest rival in Western Australia s iron ore rich Pilbara region Fortescue holds major deposits at Mount Nicholas Christmas Creek Cloudbreak and Tongolo In 2007 he took an interest and a directorship in Niagara Mining Limited renamed Poseidon Nickel Limited which had in 2006 acquired from WMC the Windara nickel deposits near Laverton Western Australia 34 35 Forrest described the Gillard government proposed Minerals Resource Rent Tax MRRT as economic vandalism 36 and a mad dog s breakfast 37 that would drive up foreign resource ownership 38 He stated he would challenge it in the High Court as being unconstitutional as it discriminates against states and fails to appropriately capture big producers BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto 39 WA premier Colin Barnett has stated the state government would back constitutional action 37 admitting the tax had been suggested to him as a sovereign risk He was highly critical of the government s expenditure of 38M on an advertising campaign that was not approved using the usual processes as it had to counter mining industry spin about the resources super profits tax 13 The former treasurer Wayne Swan said the big miners would pay at least A 2 billion tax and wrote to the head of BDO Accounting who modelled the claims Forrest used noting they were utterly unrealistic and riddled with errors 40 Treasury concurred that they would be unable to release the assumptions underpinning its forecasts as they were based on confidential information provided by the big miners 40 Gillard struck a deal with BHP Billiton Rio Tinto and Xstrata to develop the MRRT 41 Independent MP Andrew Wilkie requested the government take Forrest s mining tax grievance to heart 37 In August 2021 it was announced that Forrest would receive a 2 4 billion dividend on Fortescue s record profit 42 Tattarang Edit Main article Tattarang Tattarang is the holding company for the Forrest family s private business interests Tattarang invests in a diverse range of businesses across agri food energy health technology property resources and lifestyle The group is made up of six business divisions Fiveight Harvest Road Squadron Energy Tenmile Wyloo Metals and Z1Z 43 Global Rapid Rugby Edit Main article Global Rapid Rugby Following SANZAAR s decision to reduce the number of Super Rugby teams for 2018 the Australian Rugby Union now Rugby Australia announced in August 2017 that Perth based rugby team Western Force would be one of the teams cut from the 2018 competition In the following month Forrest announced that he would create a new tournament called the Indo Pacific Rugby Championship which would include the Western Force and five other teams from the Indo Pacific region 44 For the 2018 season the competition was launched as World Series Rugby played as a series of exhibition matches as the precursor to a wider Asia Pacific competition planned for 2019 45 The competition was rebranded in November 2018 as Global Rapid Rugby A season of fourteen matches was played in 2019 The 2020 Global Rapid Rugby season was cancelled due to the COVID 19 pandemic after only one completed round of competition 46 Cattle industry Edit After buying back the family property Minderoo Station in 2009 Forrest acquired the adjoining properties Nanutarra and Uaroo Stations in 2014 increasing his total pastoral holdings in the Pilbara to 7 300 square kilometres 2 819 sq mi 47 In August 2015 he acquired both Brick House Station and Minilya Station for an estimated A 10 million bringing his total pastoral holdings to over 10 000 square kilometres 3 861 sq mi 48 In 2020 Forrest acquired both Quanbun and neighbouring property Jubilee Downs in the Kimberley region of Western Australia for over A 30 million 49 Allied Medical Edit Further information Anteris Technologies In 2005 a medical equipment distribution company called Allied Medical was spun out of Fortescue Metals Group 50 Forrest was a director of the company 50 In June 2011 Allied Medical of which Forrest owned a 46 percent stake in was acquired by biotechnology company BioMD 51 Forrest retained an approximate 17 18 percent stake in the combined company Allied Healthcare Group after the takeover 52 Allied Healthcare Group eventually became structural heart company Anteris Technologies 53 54 Recognition and honours EditForrest has an Australian Centenary Medal Australian Sports Medal was awarded the 2017 Western Australian of the Year Award and the 2018 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Alumni Social Impact Award 55 In 2017 Forrest was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the mining sector to the development of employment and business opportunities as a supporter of sustainable foreign investment and to philanthropy 1 In 2019 Forrest was awarded a PhD in Marine Science from the University of Western Australia 56 and has a strong interest in maintaining the health of the oceans 57 Other roles EditForrest is well connected in political business and sporting circles 58 He is an adjunct professor at the Chinese Southern University and a fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining amp Metallurgy He is a former director of Australia s Export Finance and Insurance Corporation and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia and former chairman of Athletics Australia 59 He has addressed the Queensland University of Technology 60 and Christians in the Marketplace 61 He gave the 2020 Boyer Lecture to outline a case for hydrogen energy and ways to manage human impacts on the oceans 57 Philanthropy EditAndrew and Nicola Forrest made The Giving Pledge in 2013 stating 62 63 We hope to help empower individuals and families currently suffering the despair of poverty slavery and the lack of opportunity for themselves and their children We feel that if we all do whatever we can with whatever we have large or small then each of us will help make our world a more equitable and positive environment for others to thrive in Andrew and Nicola Forrest February 2013 Indigenous Australians Edit After stepping down as chief executive officer of FMG Forrest noted that he had been spending more than 50 of his time on Indigenous philanthropy 9 64 Forrest became an ambassador for the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation 65 Encouraged by the philanthropy of the Rockefeller Group Warren Buffett and Melinda and Bill Gates 66 Andrew and Nicola Forrest established the Australian Children s Trust in 2001 59 Through the influence of Scotty Black Forrest started the GenerationOne project 67 20 with assistance from James Packer and Kerry Stokes who each donated A 2 million along with the support of their respective media stations Channel 9 and Channel 7 68 GenerationOne and the Australian Children s Trust help to create sustainable solutions on addressing social disadvantage 69 With Kevin Rudd Forrest launched the Australian Employment Covenant 69 that campaigned for businesses to hire Indigenous Australians as they could add value to Australian businesses because they were professional and reliable and wonderful and that there is no reason for Indigenous disparity 20 70 GenerationOne ran a series of television advertisements privately funded by Forrest Packer and Stokes 71 Between 2008 and 2011 Forrest obtained 253 business signatories to his covenant 70 With Rudd Forrest planned to employ 50 000 Aboriginal people 72 73 As the two year deadline approached estimates put the number of Indigenous job placements under the scheme at around 2 800 well short of the original goal 74 Forrest is opposed to welfare dependency for Indigenous Australians 75 He has recounted stories of young Aboriginal girls in the Pilbara offering men sex for cigarettes leading to five indigenous women from the region collectively lodging a complaint with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission that Forrest s comment was racist and vilified the community 76 Forrest has been publicly accused of engaging in questionable methods of land acquisition 77 78 and has had accusations levelled at his company for failing Indigenous trainees at FMG s vocational training centre in Port Hedland 79 In 2013 Forrest was chosen to lead an Australian Government review into Indigenous employment and training programs 80 Delivered on 1 August 2014 with 27 recommendations 81 the review proposed the creation of the Cashless Welfare Card 82 Slavery and human trafficking Edit Forrest s daughter Grace volunteered at an orphanage in Nepal and discovered the children she had looked after had been trafficked to be sex slaves in the Middle East This distressed Grace and motivated her father to act 83 84 Grace aged 21 years said at a 2014 interfaith meeting held at the Vatican I feel like a puppet for hundreds of thousands of girls who are voiceless if I can stand for them that is what I m here to do 85 Forrest established the Walk Free Foundation in 2010 to fight modern slavery 86 In 2013 the organisation launched the Global Slavery Index ranking 162 countries based on a combined measure of three factors estimated prevalence of modern slavery by population a measure of child marriage and a measure of human trafficking in and out of a country 87 The Index estimates there are 29 million slaves worldwide roughly half in India and Pakistan 84 In January 2014 Forrest announced a deal with Pakistan to do away with more than two million slaves in return for cheap coal 88 Forrest founded the Global Freedom Network that the Pope the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Grand Imam of al Azhar lead The Global Freedom Network works to stop all religious faiths from using organisations involved with slavery in their supply chain 83 When I heard the news that all parties had agreed to the venture I have to admit I became emotional This is going to change everything This is set up like a high achieving measurement driven totally target oriented company it s like a hard edged business We are out to defeat slavery we are not out to feel good This is our mission You see the complete hopelessness in the eyes of enslaved people It s like I m stuck I will never get help I am dirt Then you know that you can t rest until you free them Andrew Forrest interviewed in 2014 In 2014 Andrew and Grace Forrest attended a meeting held in the Vatican being a Joint Religious Leaders Declaration Against Modern Slavery The anti slavery declaration was signed by Pope Francis Mata Amritanandamayi Justin Welby Thich Nhất Hạnh K Sri Dhammananda David Rosen Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Abraham Skorka Mohamed Ahmed El Tayeb Mohammad Taqi al Modarresi Basheer Hussain al Najafi and Omar Abboud religious leaders representing forms of Christianity Judaism Islam Hinduism and Buddhism 85 Welby the Archbishop of Canterbury urged consumers to demand more information about whether forced labour was involved in goods they bought 89 Other philanthropic interests Edit As of September 2007 update Forrest had injected A 90 million into his children s charity 66 Philanthropic activity has included gifts to his alma mater Hale School 90 participation in the St Vincent de Paul Society CEO sleepouts 91 and a gift from the proceeds of the sale of 5 000 tonnes 5 500 short tons of iron ore to the Chinese earthquake relief effort 92 In October 2013 it was announced that Forrest was to donate A 65 million towards higher education in Western Australia At the time the sum was believed to be the highest philanthropic donation in Australia with most going toward funding scholarships 93 The Minderoo Foundation Forrest s private foundation was renamed as the Minderoo Group is to be expanded to include higher education contributions The foundation has given A 270 million through the foundation since 2001 93 In 2014 Andrew and Nicola Forrest pledged A 65 million over ten years through the Minderoo Foundation establishing the Forrest Research Foundation to offer scholarships to students pursuing a PhD at a Western Australian university 94 95 In 2017 Forrest donated A 400 million to medical research and social causes 96 and in 2019 donated a further A 655 million to expand the existing work of the Minderoo Foundation in areas including cancer research early childhood development ocean health and eliminating modern slavery the largest ever living donation by any Australian philanthropist 97 Personal life EditForrest is a Christian 92 and has four children Grace Sophia Matilda and Sydney 98 99 In July 2023 after 31 years of marriage Andrew and Nicola announced their separation This will not affect their company 100 101 Forrest purchased the 58 2 metre 191 ft superyacht Pangaea in 2018 Built by US shipyard Halter Marine in 1999 the yacht is registered in Montego Bay Jamaica 102 Forrest turned the yacht into an ocean research vessel for the Minderoo Foundation with multiple laboratories and specialist research equipment installed since its purchase 103 In December 2015 Forrest purchased the heritage listed Tukurua mansion in Cottesloe for 16 million 104 The Forrest family housed refugees at the home for a period of time after the purchase A restoration and development of additional buildings was completed in 2019 105 106 In 2022 Forrest purchased the nearby heritage listed Le Fanu House 107 Net worth EditYear Financial ReviewRich List ForbesAustralia s 50 RichestRank Net worth A Rank Net worth US 2011 7 108 3 nbsp 6 18 billion nbsp 2012 109 110 4 nbsp 5 89 billion nbsp 2013 111 112 113 9 nbsp 3 66 billion nbsp 2014 114 115 116 7 nbsp 5 86 billion nbsp 2015 117 118 9 nbsp 2 83 billion nbsp 2016 119 8 nbsp 3 33 billion nbsp 2017 120 121 6 nbsp 6 84 billion nbsp 2018 122 121 8 nbsp 6 10 billion nbsp 2019 123 124 8 nbsp 7 99 billion nbsp 2020 125 2 nbsp 23 00 billion nbsp 2021 4 2 nbsp 27 25 billion nbsp 2022 2 nbsp 30 70 billion nbsp 2023 5 2 nbsp 33 29 billion nbsp LegendIcon Description nbsp Has not changed from the previous year nbsp Has increased from the previous year nbsp Has decreased from the previous yearReferences Edit a b Officer of the Order of Australia AO entry for Mr John Andrew FORREST It s an Honour Australian Honours Database Canberra Australia Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet 26 January 2017 Retrieved 25 December 2020 For distinguished service to the mining sector to the development of employment and business opportunities as a supporter of sustainable foreign investment and to philanthropy Australian Sports Medal entry for Mr Andrew FORREST It s an Honour Australian Honours Database Canberra Australia Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet 5 December 2000 Retrieved 25 December 2020 For services to athletics Centenary Medal entry for Mr Andrew 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Age Melbourne 29 June 2011 Fitzgerald Barry 4 August 2011 Forrest slams unfair tax The Age Melbourne a b Treasurer lashes Forrest s tax claim The Sydney Morning Herald 9 November 2011 Mining tax protects big companies only Twiggy WA Today 3 November 2011 Andrew Forrest takes home 2 4bn dividend on record Fortescue profit Who We Are Tattarang Retrieved 3 December 2022 Indo Pacific Rugby Championship Andrew Twiggy Forrest reveals details of new rugby competition The Australian 13 September 2017 Retrieved 15 November 2018 Western Force to return to action in World Series Rugby ESPN 6 March 2018 Retrieved 22 March 2018 2020 Season cancelled Channel News Asia 7 April 2020 Archived from the original on 7 April 2020 Burrell Andrew 1 March 2014 Andrew Forrest buys up Pilbara stations in Stowe sale The Australian Retrieved 2 May 2014 Thompson Brad 6 August 2015 Forrest adds cattle stations in big cattle drive The West Australian Retrieved 2 October 2015 Liveris James Warriner Jessica 9 July 2020 Andrew Forrest buys Kimberley s Jubilee Downs and Quanbun Downs for more than 30 million ABC News Australia Retrieved 9 July 2020 a b Thomson James 18 July 2010 Medical company backed by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest launches biotech investment push SmartCompany Retrieved 25 March 2023 Stafford Patrick 21 June 2011 Andrew Forrest backed biotech lists on ASX SmartCompany Archived from the original on 16 December 2011 Evans Nick 15 February 2011 Forrest biotech company to list PerthNow Retrieved 25 March 2023 Smith Sean 21 November 2013 Allied rebrands as Admedus The West Australian Retrieved 25 March 2023 Admedus Changes Name to Anteris Technologies Ltd Press release GlobalNewswire 1 June 2020 Retrieved 25 March 2023 Andrew Forrest Fortescue Metals Group Ernst amp Young Archived from the original on 25 April 2012 Retrieved 11 December 2011 Hamish Hastie 5 December 2019 The doctor is in Andrew Twiggy Forrest gets PhD in marine science Australia Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 1 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Archived from the original on 3 September 2011 Retrieved 7 September 2011 a b Gosch Elizabeth 21 September 2007 Billionaire gives 80M to underprivileged kids The Australian WIN News on GenerationOne and Andrew Forrest Generation One 4 May 2010 Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 James Packer joins Andrew Forrest to ease plight of jobless The Sunday Telegraph Australia 21 February 2010 a b Andrew Forrest Yakety Yak interview The Centre for Social Impact 27 May 2011 Archived from the original on 6 April 2012 a b End Indigenous disadvantage with jobs Andrew Forrest Campus Daily 20 June 2011 Archived from the original on 6 April 2012 Warne Smith Drew 19 March 2009 Andrew Twiggy Forrest urges big business to hire indigenous Australians The Australian PM backs Forrest s aboriginal job plan WA Today 4 August 2008 Screams in the night spur magnate into action The Sydney Morning Herald 4 October 2008 Retrieved 6 December 2011 Jordan Kirrily Mavec Dante 6 August 2015 Corporate initiatives in Indigenous employment The Australian Employment Covenant two years on Apo Australian Policy Online Iron and Dust Four Corners ABC TV 18 July 2011 Archived from the original transcript on 27 November 2011 Retrieved 11 December 2011 Jones Lloyd 18 April 2011 FMG s Andrew Forrest faces human rights complaint PerthNow FMG s Great Native Title Swindle Vimeo Archived from the original streaming audio on 11 April 2011 Herbert Bronwyn 24 December 2012 Fortescue accused of rigging land rights deal 7 30 ABC TV Retrieved 23 June 2017 Waters Jeff 18 August 2011 Indigenous trainees left to sleep rough PM Australia ABC Radio Retrieved 23 June 2017 Forrest to review Indigenous employment training programs NITV News 8 October 2013 Retrieved 30 October 2017 Indigenous Jobs and Training Review pmc gov au 23 March 2016 Archived from the original on 1 November 2017 Retrieved 30 October 2017 Moran Mark Go Sam Carroll 15 November 2015 Healthy Welfare Card begins here where next The Conversation Retrieved 30 October 2017 a b Miller Nick 18 March 2014 Andrew Forrest s dream to stop all slavery The Sydney Morning Herald a b Milman Oliver 18 March 2014 Andrew Forrest signs up religious forces to fight slavery and trafficking The Guardian Australia a b Australian Grace Forrest inspires Pope Francis and other world religious leaders to sign pledge to eradicate slavery by 2020 Walk Free the Minderoo Foundation The Index Global Slavery Index Andrew Forrest strikes cheap coal deal to end Pakistan slavery The Australian 23 January 2014 Pope and Welby joined by imams and rabbis for anti slavery declaration The Guardian 2 December 2014 Retrieved 24 December 2020 Forrest library unrelieved The Haleian 21 2 8 9 November 2009 Archived from the original on 18 January 2012 Andrew Forrest talks homelessness today CEO Sleep Out Archived from the original on 6 February 2012 a b Weber David 15 May 2008 Fortescue Metals loads first iron ore shipment PM ABC Radio Australia a b Forrest 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