Govind Pillai was elected Chairperson of the Board in July 2023, following nine years of service on The National’s Board where he served as Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee for the majority of this time. 

Govind is a Managing Director at Accenture and consults to organisations across a wide variety of industries on business improvement, transformation and related strategic issues. 

Govind’s qualifications include an MBA, Bachelor of Engineering with Honors, Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies and Authentic Leadership Development at Harvard Business School. 

Govind is also a practitioner of classical Indian dance and is heavily involved in art performance, direction, teaching and production through his past and present roles as Director of Karma Dance Inc, Lead male dancer of Samskriti Dance (Sydney), Dance Advisor to the Federation of Indian Music and Dance Victoria, and Vice President of Flare Dance Company Inc.