Career
He is also a director of the classical liberal think tank, the Centre for Independent Studies. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Chairman of start-up innovation group BlueChilli and Wilson HTM Investment Group and is Deputy Chairman of the General Sir John Monash Foundation. He is a former Chairman of Film Australia and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, and a former Director of The Australian Ballet.
As a student at Oxford University, Skala played two first-class cricket matches for the university, and also appeared in two List A cricket matches for the Combined Universities side which at that time included players from Oxford and Cambridge Universities only.
He was a right-handed lower-order batsman and wicketkeeper.