Sydney's gift to international finance, James D. Wolfensohn, from Sydney Boys High to leading and reforming the World Bank in a tumultuous decade, among other things. Can't think of any Australian in finance who achieved so much. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-wolfensohn-dead/2020/11/25/be7c0100-2f48-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Because Kerry Packer was one of his clients, we were able to get a Business Sunday interview during a Sydney visit. On subsequent NY jobs, he would somehow make time for us, an insignificant Australian audience, including during the mayhem of the crash of '87 and 9/11, a voice...

...of reason, calm analysis and compassion.
Will always remember him seeing the threat of a 9/11-induced recession as killing more innocent people - a recession would mean X million people not rising out of poverty, Y million people being pushed back into it, Z million dying...

Yes, investment banking made him wealthy, but he kept perspective. He could have continued to make much, much more money as an investment banker - or he could achieve something.
The comparison with those for whom everything is never enough is invidious. Vale James Wolfensohn.