Gail Kelly (born Gail Currer on 25 April 1956 in Pretoria, South Africa) is an Australian and South African business person. In 2002 she became the first woman CEO of a major Australian bank or top 15 company and, as at 2005, was the highest paid woman at an Australian corporation. She has recently taken up the position of CEO at Westpac. In August 2008 Forbes ranked her the 11th most powerful woman in the world.
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Gail Kelly (born Gail Currer on 25 April 1956 in Pretoria, South Africa) is an Australian and South African business person. In 2002 she became the first woman CEO of a major Australian bank or top 15 company and, as at 2005, was the highest paid woman at an Australian corporation. She has recently taken up the position of CEO at Westpac. In August 2008 Forbes ranked her the 11th most powerful woman in the world.
She was born Gail Currer in South Africa. Currer attended the University of Cape Town where she undertook an arts degree majoring in history and Latin as well as a Diploma of Education. She married Allan Kelly in December 1977. The couple moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where she taught Latin at Falcon College while he served in the Rhodesian army. The couple returned to South Africa where Allan Kelly studied medicine at the University of the Witswatersrand and Gail Kelly taught at a government high school.
Kelly started work at the Nedcor Bank as a teller but was fast...
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