Geoff Pollard has been the President of Tennis Australia and Chairman of the Tennis Australia Board, since 1989. His involvement with tennis began as a player � he represented Australia in junior Davis Cup from 1961-1963, finished runner-up in the Australian junior championships in 1961 and made final appearances at the prestigious Orange Bowl. He gained a science degree from the University of Sydney and was a senior lecturer in statistics at Macquarie University while serving as the President of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association from 1979-1989. Pollard is vice president of the International Tennis Federation (since 1999), president of the Oceania Tennis Federation (since 1991), the chairman of the ITF Rules of Tennis Committee and Technical Commission, and a Member of the Melbourne and Olympic Park Trust. In 1988 he was awarded a Member of The Order of Australia for his ongoing and significant contribution to the sport. In July 2007, he became the third Australian to be awarded the Lawn Tennis Association�s Carl Aarvold Award for services to tennis.