Peter is a Melbourne/Naarm based King’s Counsel and is Chair of the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Foundation, the University of Melbourne’s Humanities Foundation and Melbourne Art Foundation.
Peter has been Deputy Chair of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, a Director of the McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery and Director of the National Gallery of Australia Foundation and is a Patron of the Australian World Orchestra as well as a member of the Victorian College of the Arts Foundation. Peter is a Life Governor of The Florey and a former director of the Melbourne Business School as well as various other legal governing boards. In 2014 Peter was made a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia for significant service to the law in Victoria and to the community.