Early Life
Vizard was born in Melbourne, Australia on 6 March 1956, the son of Godfrey Lancelot Pitt Vizard and June Purtell. He grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn and was educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School. His father, Godfrey, had been a Patrol Officer in Papua New Guinea in the early 1950s and had been involved in exploring and mapping the uncharted Gulf region around Kerema, including making first contact with native Kukukuku.
As a teenager, Vizard was raised on a bush property in the semi-rural suburb of Warrandyte.
After finishing high school in 1973, Vizard won a scholarship to study law and arts at the University of Melbourne. From 1981 to 1986, he practised law as a partner in a Melbourne City law firm and until 1988 worked as an international commercial negotiator for multinational RTZ (Rio Tinto Zinc), mainly in Britain and Germany.
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