Peter, with his wife Fiona, is the founder and former head of Queens Square Chambers and is a practicing barrister, specialising in commercial, equity and public law. He also has specialisations in international trade and admiralty law. Peter has had a long association with the tertiary higher education sector, he was a graduate of Sydney University and Oxford University. Peter was a Rhodes Scholar awarded in 1975.Peter is the former Club President of SUFC, the Sydney University Football Club with two of his sons currently playing with the club.Peter was Chair of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO in 2000 and 2001, based in Paris and was also chair of the World Heritage Bureau. He has worked with IUCN and heritage specialists in identifying places of international significance to be enscribed on the world heritage list, including the Blue Mountains and Australia's first cultural listing being places of convict heritage.Peter is a former Mayor of Woollahra, and a former member for Wentworth in the House of Representatives. Peter has a detailed working experience of the financial and administrative requirements of government at all levels.