Bill Muirhead is Executive Director of M&C Saatchi, Agent General for the Government of South Australia since 2007, and Director of The Australia Day Foundation since it was formed in 2003. He began his advertising career with Saatchi & Saatchi before moving to New York as Worldwide Chief Executive and President. When he returned to London in 1995, he co-founded M&C Saatchi. In 2011 he founded the South Australia Club, an international community of people connected to South Australia through business, politics, academia, media and the arts. In 2013, Muirhead became a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia, for significant service to the community of South Australia through the promotion of international trade. He has also been involved in the Mentor Me programme in South Australia, an initiative to help young Britons to develop useful skills and to find employment.