Glenn is a graduate of the University of Sydney and the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His professional career in the Reserve Bank of Australia spanned three and a half decades. He joined the RBA as a junior economist in 1980 and in the 1990s he held senior policy advising positions in the economics and markets areas, and was closely involved in designing and establishing Australia’s highly successful monetary policy framework in the early 1990s. From 1996 Glenn was Assistant Governor (Economic). He was appointed Deputy Governor and member of the Reserve Bank Board in 2001. In September 2006, he was appointed Governor and Chair of the Reserve Bank Board and of the Payments System Board. Glenn was reappointed in 2013, serving a total of ten years as Governor of Australia’s central bank. In June 2016 Glenn was made a Companion in the Order of Australia, for services to central banking and finance, and to the community. He was been awarded honorary doctorates by Western University, Canada and the University of Sydney, Australia. Retiring from the Reserve Bank in September 2016 after nearly 37 years of service, he now pursues private interests, including in aviation and financial services.