Progress 2013 Speaker Bios

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Aaron is co-founder and CEO of Spark* International. He has led and workedin some of the worlds most challenging environments. Following seven yearsof service as a military officer including operations in Iraq as an 18 year old, hespent two years running grassroots humanitarian projects in East Africa beforeco-founding Spark* International, an organisation that finds and enables local

social entrepreneurs in very poor communities.

Alex Scott is the Secretary of Together, the public sector union for Queensland(formerly known as the Queensland Public Sector Union). Alex has worked forthe union and its predecessors since 1989, overseeing Together through a periodof extraordinary change.

Amanda Tattersall is the Founding Director of the Sydney Alliance, a diversecoalition of schools, unions, religious organisations and community organisations

working to make Sydney a better place to live. She is also the author of Power inCoalition, a book that compares coalitions across Australia, the US and Canadaand was based on her PhD.

Amanda McKenzie is the incoming CEO of the Climate Council, a newindependent replacement for the Climate Commission which was axed bythe federal government. Amanda has been instrumental in setting up the newClimate Council which was funded through crowdsourcing public donations.Previously, Amanda worked as a senior communications advisor to theCommission. She is also the Chair of the Centre for Australian Progress, andpreviously spent four years as National Director of the Australian Youth ClimateCoalition, building a non-partisan movement of tens of thousands of youngAustralians to tackle the climate crisis. For this work, she was acknowledged asthe 2009 Environment Ministers Young Environmentalist of the Year and 2009Rotary Young Achiever of the Year.

Anat Shenker-Osorio is a messaging and framing guru and author. She combinesattentive language research with practical communication savvy to offer adviceon how to make yourself heard, believed and understood. Anat has presented togatherings at the U.S. Congress, and White House and has helped craft winningwords for paid family leave, immigration policy, reproductive health and economicjustice.

Allison is the founding Director of Millwood Consulting, a niche agency

focused on improving the effectiveness and impact of NGOs and NFPs in theirengagement with Government. Millwood Consulting works with organisationson research, policy development, submission and report writing projects, aswell as providing strategic advice on advocacy campaigns and stakeholderengagement. Allison served for almost five years as a Ministerial Advisor in theFederal Parliament, as a senior advisor to the Prime Minister and advisor to theMinister for Immigration and Citizenship, the Shadow Attorney-General and theShadow Minister for Health. She is the former National Director of the AustralianRepublican Movement and a graduate of the Sydney Leadership Program.She holds undergraduate degrees in Arts and Law, and Masters degrees inInternational Studies and International Law.

Aaron Tait

Founder andCEO

Spark*

Alex Scott

Secretary

Together

Amanda

TattersallFounder

Sydney Alliance

Amanda

McKenzie

CEO

Climate Council

Anat

Shenker-

Osorio

Researcher,CommunicationsConsultant andAuthor

ASOCommunications(US)

Allison Henry

Founding Director

MillwoodConsulting

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Andrew Bradley is a senior communications specialist who has worked atthe political and departmental level and in the communications consultancysetting with extensive experience across federal, state and local governments,politicians, departments and agencies, listed companies, not-for-profits andindividuals.

Anita Tang is Policy and Advocacy Manager of Cancer Council NSW and one ofAustralias most respected public health campaigners. She has played a leadingrole in securing federal and state government support around tobacco control,cancer screening, and support for cancer survivors.

Angela Ferguson is Managing Director of ThoughtWorks Australia. ThoughtWorksis a software company and community of passionate individuals with an objectiveto revolutionise software delivery while advocating for posit ive social change. Inaddition to working in senior leadership roles, Angela has led delivery and changeprograms within multiple domains in several countries.

Andrew Markus is the Pratt Foundation Research Professor of Jewish Civilisationat Monash University and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences inAustralia. He has published extensively on Australian immigration and racerelations and heads the Scanlon Foundation social cohesion research program.

Anna is the Director of Advocacy and Strategic Litigation at the Human RightsLaw Centre, Convenor of the Victorian Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby and nationalspokesperson for the groundbreaking No to Homophobia campaign. Annaworks across a range human rights issues and was previously a ministerialadviser, senior lawyer at the Victorian Government Solicitors Office, seniorassociate at Allens Linklaters and Federal Court associate. In 2013, she wasnamed as one of Australias LGBTI people to watch.

Anna is co-founder and former Chair of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.She is a former campaigner at GetUp! and a Director of the Bob BrownFoundation and Green Music Australia. Anna is also the author of Change,loss, power and sacrifice, a recent essay in the Griffith Review that explores thenature of social change in Australia and asks what it will take to make Australiansmore open to progressive social change.

Anne Hollonds is the CEO of The Benevolent Society, Australias first andlongest-running not-for-profit organisation, celebrating its 200th anniversary thisyear. She has over 15 years experience as a Chief Executive Officer in the not-for-profit sector including as former CEO of Relationships Australia NSW and isalso a child and family psychologist.

Andrew

Bradley

CommunicationsCoordinator(Australia)

European ClimateFoundation

Anita Tang

Policy andAdvocacyManager

Cancer CouncilNSW

Angela

Ferguson

ManagingDirector, Australia

ThoughtWorks

AndrewMarcus

Professor, JewishCivilisation

MonashUniversity

Anna BrownConvenor

Victorian Gay andLesbian RightsLobby

Anna Rose

Environmentalist,Lecturer, Authorand Campaigner

Anne

Hollonds

CEO

The BenevolentSociety


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Barry Traill is a a wildlife ecologist by training and a leading Australianconservationist. He is currently Director of the Outback to Oceans Programwith the Pew Environment Group in Australia. Pew works with partners to obtainprotection for large wilderness areas in Australia both in the outback and inremote Australian seascapes.

Ben McGowan is co-founder of Voice for Indi, a grassroots movement forpolitical change in the (formerly) safe rural seat of Indi. The Voice for Indisupported candidate Cathy McGowan who was elected with a campaignthat revitalised rural politics.

Dr Cassandra Goldie is CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS),the peak body for the community sector in Australia and the national voicefor people experiencing poverty and inequality. She is a leading advocate oneconomic and social policy, a regular media and public commentator, and ahighly respected human rights lawyer.

Carl is a Campaigns Director at GetUp! He is passionate about finding ways for

everyone to participate in politics and take action on the issues they care about.Carl most recently led GetUps 2013 election field campaign.

Chris Tanti is CEO of Headspace, the national youth mental health foundation.Chris graduated from social work at the University of Melbourne. He worked as asocial worker in both the private and public sectors in many different areas beforemoving into management roles. As CEO of Headspace, Chris is responsible forover 30 mental health centres around Australia.

Barry Traill

Director, Outbackto OceansProgram

Pew CharitableTrusts

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McGowan

Co-Founder

Voice for Indi

Cassandra

Goldie

CEO

ACOSS

Carl Harris

CampaignsDirector

GetUp!

Chris Tanti

CEO

Headspace

Archie Law is the Executive Director of ActionAid Australia, taking on the positionin April 2008. Previously, he spent 20 years working with the UN and withinthe NGO sector across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the US. In a past life,Archie was a drummer for the 1980s rock band, the Huxton Creepers.

Archie LawExecutive Director

ActionAidAustralia

Anne Coombs is a writer and social activist. She is the Executive Directorof the Becher Foundation, and was one of the founders of Rural Australiansfor Refugees. She has had a long-term commitment to supporting a rangeof progressive organisations including GetUp, Per Capita and the Centre ofAustralian Progress.

Anne

Coombs

Executive Director

BecherFoundation


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Danny is the co-founder and CEO of Small Giants, Australias first certifiedB-Corporation. Prior to Small Giants, Danny was the founding CEO of EngineersWithout Borders Australia and CEO of Medivax. He has done some other coolstuff including being part of the team that broke the record for racing a solar caracross Australia from Darwin to Adelaide.

David Hetherington is the founding Executive Director of Per Capita, aprogressive think tank. He previously worked at the Institute for Public PolicyResearch in London and for L.E.K. Consulting in Sydney, Munich and Auckland.David appears regularly in the Sydney Morning Herald , AFR, and The Australian.

David Ritter is the Chief Executive Officer of Greenpeace Australia Pacific and

a Co-Chair of Progress 2013. David returned to Australia to take up this roleat Greenpeace in August 2012 after five years working in a senior campaignsposition with Greenpeace in London. A former lawyer and academic, David is awidely published political commentator.

Since becoming Chief Executive Officer in 2010, Dermot OGorman has steeredWWF-Australia in developing a new strategy, focused on six high impactinitiatives. He also led the organisation through recent big conservation wins,including WWFs contribution to carbon price laws and plans for a nationalnetwork of marine parks.

Ellen was National Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC)from late 2010 to November 2012. She has become one of Australias leadingcommentators and campaigners on the issue of climate change. Under Ellensstewardship AYCC grew from a handful of friends wanting to change the world,to a huge organisation with over 80,000 members, a national media profile andthe ear of politicians due to its high impact, creative campaigns. Ellen has wonseveral awards for her work as a campaigner and non-profit leader. She wasawarded joint winner of Australias most prestigious environment award for youngpeople the Banksia Young Environmentalist of the Year award in 2009, andwon the Melbourne Award for Individual Contribution to Environment in 2009.

Danny

Almagor

CEO

Small Giants

David

Hetherington

Executive Director

Per Capita

David Ritter

CEO

GreenpeaceAustralia Pacific/Co-Chair ofProgress 2013

Dermot

OGorman

CEO

WWF Australia

Ellen Sandell

Climate ChangeCampaigner

Dan is a community organiser and campaign manager with the Repower PortAugusta Alliance and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. For the last year,Dan has been working on a campaign to replace Port Augustas ageing coal-firedpower stations with concentrated solar thermal. Dan received the inaugural BobBrown Young Environmentalist of the Year Award in 2012.

Dan SpencerCampaignManager

Repower PortAugusta/AYCC

dDaniel Haile-Michael is co-founder of African Australian Voice, a weekly radioshow. He is completing a BA in Engineering from Victoria University and wasan applicant in a recent high profile racial harassment case with Victoria Police.

Daniel Haile-

Michael

Co-Founder

African AustralianVoice


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Fiona Sharkie is Executive Director of Quit Victoria and Co-Chair of Progress2013. Fionas career has spanned the private, public and non-profit sectors inthe health and publishing industries as well as womens affairs, and overseas aid.Currently Fiona leads an organisation fighting an issue that continues to claim thelives of 15,000 Australians a year.

Geoff is Director of Social Leadership Australia at The Benevolent Society. Hehas a rare combination of hands on experience in senior leadership roles anda deep understanding of change and leadership theory and practice. Geoff isresponsible for providing strategic direction for Social Leadership Australia.

Glen Berman is General Manager of Centre for Australian Progress and oneof Australias leading campaigners. Formerly, Glen was General Manager ofthe Australian Youth Climate Coalition where he oversaw numerous projectsincluding Powershift 2011 two youth conferences with more than 1400delegates in Brisbane and Perth. He has also been Chief Financial Officer atThe Oaktree, a fast-growing aid and development organisation. Prior to joiningthe Centre for Australian Progress, Glen spent six months with Make Believe asa Senior Strategist advising clients on fundraising and digital campaigning.

Geraldine Chin Moody is Group Executive, People, Culture and Sustainability atVirgin Australia. She has previously held senior executive positions at Baker &McKenzie (Australia) and the Australian Stock Exchange. She is a board memberof UN Women, and a recipient of the NSW Telstra Young Business Woman of the

Year award.

Gavin is the Director of Empowerment Programs at the Asylum SeekerResource Centre (ASRC). He oversees the ASRCs social enterprises as well asits employment, education and social and community development programs.Gavin is recognised for his innovative approaches to working with asylumseekers. He is the founder of WORCs, a world first e-Mentoring program forasylum seekers and refugees, and the creator of Australias only governmentfunded asylum seeker vocational education and training program. His latestendeavour is the Asylum Seeker Innovation Hub for which Gavin was featuredin The Age newspapers The Zone. While still in its early stages, The Hub ischanging the way Australians support and connect with disadvantaged groups.

Freddy Sharpe is CEO of Climate Friendly, Australias leading carbonmanagement business. He has worked in sustainability and on climate changesolutions in Australia and internationally for over 20 years and grown ClimateFriendly into a global business. Previously, Freddy was Chief Operating Officer ofAustralias largest residential energy efficiency company. Freddy speaks regularly

on climate change and related topics and was included in the inaugural ABCCarbon 50, a list of the 50 most influential people in Australia who are committedto the environment, the planet and the future of life on earth.

Fiona SharkieExecutive Director

QUIT Vitcoria

Geoff Aigner

Director

Social LeadershipAustralia, TheBenevolentSociety

Glen Berman

General Manager

Centre forAustralianProgress

Geraldine

Chin

Group Executive,

People, Cultureand Sustainability

Virgin Australia

Gavin

Ackerley

Director ofEmpowermentPrograms

Asylum SeekerResource Centre

Freddy

Sharpe

CEO

Climate Friendly

Evan Thornley is a business and social entrepreneur. He was CEO ofLooksmart and Better Place and is a former director of GetUp, Per Capitaand the Brotherhood of St Laurence. Evan was also a driving force behind theestablishment of Goodstart Early Learning.

Evan

Thornley

Businessand SocialEntreprenuer


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Helen Szoke joined as Oxfam Australia as Chief Executive in January 2013.Prior to this appointment, Helen served as Australias Federal Race DiscriminationCommissioner, following seven years as the Victorian Equal Opportunity and

Human Rights Commissioner.

Hugh de Kretser is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Law Centre.Hugh was previously the Executive Officer of the Victorian Federation ofCommunity Legal Centres and Manager of the Brimbank Melton CommunityLegal Centre after starting his career in corporate law. He is a Director of theVictorian Sentencing Advisory Council and was a Commissioner of the VictorianLaw Reform Commission from 2008 to 2012.

Ian McAuley is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Sector Finance at the University ofCanberra. His research interests are in public policy, with a specialisation in fiscaland economic policy. His academic qualifications are in engineering and businessmanagement from Adelaide University and public administration from HarvardUniversity.

Jamila is the editor of Mamamia.com.au and a columnist for Cosmopolitanmagazine. She previously worked for both the Rudd and Gillard Governmentsin policy and media.

Jane Caro is the emcee of Progress 2013 and the wearer of many hats; includingauthor, lecturer, mentor, social commentator, columnist, workshop facilitator,speaker, broadcaster and award winning advertising writer. The common threadrunning through her career is a delight in words and a talent for using them toconnect with other people. A skill she developed and honed during her verysuccessful 30 years as an advertising writer.

Helen Szoke

Cheif Executive

Oxfam Australia

Hugh de

Kretser

Executive Director

Human RightsLaw Centre

Ian McAuley

Adjunct Lecturer,Public SectorFinance

University ofCanberra

Jamila Rizvi

Editor

Mamamia

Jane Caro

Emcee ofProgress 2013

Hayley Conway is a campaigner with experience spanning the labor unionmovement, politics, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocacy.She currently serves as Campaign Manager for All Out, a global LGBT movementof more than 1.8 million people.

Hayley is leading All Outs efforts for LGBT rights in Uganda, on updatingAustralias anti-discrimination laws to include LGBTI people, and to have Googleand Apple remove an app offering to cure gayness. She also led the onlinestrategy for four marriage ballot initiatives in the 2012 United States election(TheFour.com) and ran a successful campaign against Ukraines gay gag law.

HayleyConway

CampaignManager

AllOut.org

For the last three years Glen has been National Kimberley Campaigner for TheWilderness Society with a primary focus on the campaign to oppose a gashub development at James Price Point. Previously, Glen was Carbon BusinessManager for Greening Australia and Conservation Director for WWF-Australia.

Glen

Klatovsky

NationalCampaigner

The WildernessSociety


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Jeremy was National Field Director for the 2012 re-election campaign ofPresident Barack Obama and is a founding partner at 270 Strategies.

At Progress 2013, Jeremy will share the story of the brick by brick organisingwork that turned out Obamas coalition.

Jess Kutch is a digital strategist and social change entrepreneur. In 2013,she co-founded Coworker.org an online platform for people to advocate forimprovements in the workplace. Jess has directed digital campaigns for theService Employees International Union (SEIU) and Change.org. She is also aSenior Fellow at the New Organizing Institute.

Dr John Falzon is an activist and political sociologist. He is Chief ExecutiveOfficer of the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council of Australia.

Johns first book, The Language of the Unheard (Garratt) was published in2012.

John Hepburn is Executive Director of The Sunrise Project. For the past tenyears, John has played a key strategic role with Greenpeace Australia Pacific,where he has performed a wide variety of roles including managing the climateand energy campaign, the genetic engineering campaign, and the outreach and

mobilisation department. He has also worked for Greenpeace International as anadvisor to campaign teams in India, China and Japan.

Karen leads the Australian team at Change.org - an international online platformthat supports individuals and organisations to create the change they want tosee. For the last 15 years, Karen has led and advised on union, political andenvironmental campaigns in Australia and New Zealand. This includes workingat the ACTU Organising Centre in 2009 and coordinating the Say Yes Australiacarbon price campaign in 2011.

Jeremy Bird

Founder

270 Strategies(US)

Jess Kutch

Co-Founderand CampaignDirector

Coworker.org

John Falzon

CEO

St Vincent dePaul

John

Hepburn

Executive Director

The SunriseProject

Karen

Skinner

CampaignsDirector, Australia

Change.org

Jason Glanville is a member of the Wiradjuri peoples from south-western NewSouth Wales. He is the inaugural CEO of the National Centre of IndigenousExcellence and a Co-Chair of Progress 2013. Jason is Chair of the AustralianIndigenous Governance Institute and on the boards of Reconciliation Australia,and the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre.

JasonGlanville

CEO

National Centrefor IndigenousExcellence/Co-Chair of Progress2013

Jarrod McKenna is a refugee activist, teaching pastor and National Advisor toWorld Vision Australia. Jarrods peace award winning work has engaged over12,000 young activists in nine countries across four continents. He lives in Perthwith his amazing wife Teresa, son Tyson and 14 recently arrived refugees at FirstHome Project an innovative community modelling empowering welcome as analternative to detention.

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Founder

First HomeProject


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As a senior strategist for a number of high profile organisations and agenciesincluding Blue State Digital, Slow Food USA, Essential Media Communicationsand GetUp, Kate has provided advice to many prominent non-profits,movements and social enterprises both in Australia and internationally.

Her skills are focused around building integrated communications strategiesboth online and offline that re-imagine brands, build communities and createcampaigns that win. Her clients are wide ranging and have included; VogueMagazine, Tribeca Film Festival, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, the JewishFederations of North America, NYU Alumni, Caritas International and TheAustralian Council of Trade Unions.

Kathe is Executive Director of the Asialink Centre of The University of Melbourneand of the Asia Education Foundation. Kathe has a background in schooleducation with a focus on innovation in education. She is a Board memberof the Foundation for Young Australians and the Australia Malaysia Institute.

Lachlan McDaniel is a Wiradjuri man who grew up in South-West Sydney. Heattended Macquarie University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts anda Bachelor of Laws. During his studies, he attended the University of Calgaryin Canada where he spent 6 months studying Canadian Indigenous Studies,History and the Treaty system. More recently, Lachlan pursued his interest inIndigenous self-governance by spending January of 2013 at the Universityof Arizona studying a Continuing Education Certificate in Indigenous Studies.Following graduation, Lachlan worked as an Indigenous Student Support Officerin the Tertiary Education sector before moving to Recognise, the peoplesmovement for Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderpeoples in the Australian Constitution.

Kirsty Albion is one of Australian Youth Climate Coalitions National Co-Directorsand has been part of the team for over five years. She has led many majorcampaigns including Meet Your Member where young people met 215 of ourFederal politicians and a 328km Walk for Solar thermal in Port Augusta. In 2013she was awarded Prime Ministers Young Environmentalist of the Year with Co-Director Lucy Manne.

Kate WalshStrategist andCampaignConsultant

Kathe Kirby

Executive Director

Asialink Centreof The Universityof Melbourneand of theAsia EducationFoundation

LachlanMcDaniel

CommunityLiaison Manager

Recognise

Kirsty Albion

Co-Director

Australian YouthClimate Coalition

Kelly Craighead is the immediate past President and Managing Director of theDemocracy Alliance (DA) and currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Boardand Management team. Kelly came to the Washington-based DemocracyAlliance with extensive experience in politics, and also the private and non-profit sectors. Prior to joining the DA full-time, she was a strategic consultant toprogressive non-profits, including the DA and Media Matters for America, helping

to secure essential start-up capital and providing operations, communicationsand fundraising expertise. Kelly served eight years in the Clinton Administrationwith the rank of Deputy Assistant advising both President and First Lady Clintonon a range of domestic and international activities and initiatives.

Kelly

Craighead

Senior Advisor

DemocracyAlliance (US)

Karina Brisby is a Partner at Core Collaboration. For a decade, she was headof digital campaigning at Oxfam GB. Most recently, as a consultant, she hasadvised the World Wide Web Foundation on an international coalition for a free,open and accessible web. She also runs Blog Action Day.

Karina Brisby

Partner

CoreCollaboration


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Luke is campaigning to improve the lives of workers. A former United Voiceorganiser and ministerial advisor, Luke is changing the way workers organise towin campaigns for Victorias 500,000 strong union members.

Luke Hilakari

Secretary Elect

Victorian TradesHall Council

Lucy Larkins is a Trustee of The Reichstein Foundation and a Senior PolicyAdviser at the Federation of Community Legal Centres, where she works on civillaw and human rights policy. She recently returned to Australia after five yearsworking on death penalty cases in the United States.

Lucy Larkins

Trustee

The ReichsteinFoundation

Louise Tarrant is a lifelong unionist who is now National Secretary of United

Voice, one of Australias largest unions representing workers in diverseindustries such as childcare, hospitality, aged care and security. Louise ispassionate about the issues that affect her members, such as low pay, insecurityand lack of respect at work. She is a Co-Chair of Progress 2013.

Louise

TarrantNationalSecretary

United Voice/Co-Chair of Progress2013

Lindsay Soutar is the founder of 100% Renewables, and the campaign platformSolar Citizens. In the past, Lindsay divided her time between Australia andthe countries of the Mekong region, working as a researcher and educatoron environment and development issues. In 2011 Lindsay was named theEnvironment Ministers Young Environmentalist of the Year.

Lindsay

Soutar

NationalCoordinator

100%Renewables

Leah Ginnivan took leave from working as a researcher at the Grattan Instituteto help direct Cathy McGowans campaign in Indi. She organised events to fireup the campaign, shaped policy based on community conversations, and was akey contributor to the media and digital strategy team. The majestic north-eastVictoria/grassroots politics/abundant cheese and wine recaptured this local girl,and shes now working with McGowan MP until the end of 2013.

Libby Lenkinski is Director of Strategic Initiatives at the New Israel Fund (NIF) -a fund dedicated to religious pluralism and civil rights in Israel. She previouslyworked as Director of International Relations at the Association for Civil Rights inIsrael, the countrys leading human rights organisation. Libby is in Australia as aguest of NIF Australia.

LeahGinnivan

Voice for Indi

Libby

Lenkinski

Director, StrategicInitiatives

New Israel Fund(IL)

Laura Eadie is the Sustainable Economy Research Director at the Centre forPolicy Development. Her experience spans corporate strategy consulting,management experience in green finance and natural resources policy advice.She is a UTS Business School Associate, and has qualifications in environmentalmanagement, finance and investment, and industrial chemistry.

Laura Eadie

SustainableEconomyResearch Director

Centre for PolicyDevelopment


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Matthew Levey is Director of Campaigns and Communications at CHOICE.Completely self-funded and independent, CHOICE was founded in 1959 andis the number-one advocate of consumer rights in Australia. Matthew leadsCHOICEs advocacy and campaigning across a range of consumer issues,including banking, energy, digital rights and food policy.

Matthew

Levey

Director,Campaigns andCommunications

CHOICE

Matthew Bowden is Co-CEO of the national peak organisation People withDisability Australia (PWDA). Matthew has worked for 10 years on advocacy andmembership engagement for PWDA. Hes passionate about effecting positiveindividual and collective change for people with disability.

Matthew

Bowden

Co-CEO

People WithDisability Australia

Marshall Ganz is a Senior Lecturer at Harvards Kennedy School of Government.In a career spanning six decades, Marshall has worked with grassroots groups todevelop new organising programs and designed voter mobilisation strategies forlocal, state, and national electoral campaigns.

MarshallGanz

Senior Lecturer

Kennedy Schoolof Government

Mark Davis is one of Australias foremost video journalists and in his careerhas won a Logie and five Walkley Awards. During 2010, as a co-presenter andvideo journalist for SBS Dateline, he gained unprecedented access to WikiLeaksfounder Julian Assange.

Dr Mark Zirnsak is Director, Justice and International Mission, Synod of Victoriaand Tasmania, Uniting Church in Australia. The Uniting Church acts as theSecretariat for the Tax Justice Network in Australia. He was a member of theAssistant Treasurers Special Reference Group and consulted on measures tocurb tax dodging by multinational enterprises.

Mark Davis

Investigative TVJournalist

Dateline, SBS

Mark Zirnsak

Director, Justiceand InternationalMission

Synod of Victoriaand Tasmania,Uniting Church inAustralia

MargaretGardiner

Elder

Wurendjeri Tribe

mMadeleine is a producer on Progress 2013 and a content and communicationsspecialist. She has a background in the arts, publishing and content marketing,and is dedicated to helping individuals and organisations to engage audiencesand communicate more effectively.

Madeleine

Hinchy

Producer andContent andCommunicationsSpecialist

Wildwon Projects


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Nick Allardice is a social change entrepreneur and advocate, with a history ofcreating and leading high impact campaigns, movements and organisations onnational and global issues. Nick is the founder of Change.org Australia and nowthe Managing Director, Asia Pacific, supporting Change.orgs growth in Asia.

Nick Allardice

ManagingDirector, AsiaPacific

Change.org

Nadine Flood is National Secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union.Nadine studied economics at Macquarie University and was a union delegate inuniversities and local government. She began as an organiser with the CPSU in1995 representing members across government agencies and in Telstra. Nadinehas also worked with the ACTU and with international unions such as the SIEUin America.

Nareen Young is CEO of the Diversity Council of Australia, an independent,not-for-profit workplace diversity advisor to business. She serves on the boardof Netball Australia, Indigenous Business Australia and was named one of theTwenty Most Influential Female Voices of 2012 by Daily Life

Nadine FloodNationalSecretary

Community &Public SectorUnion

Nareen

Young

CEO

Diversity Council

of Australia

Miriam Lyon is Executive Director at the Centre for Policy Development. She is aregular guest on the ABC TV shows Q&A and The Drum and co-edited the bookMore Than Luck: Ideas Australia Needs Now with Mark Davis. She is currentlyediting CPDs forthcoming book, Pushing our Luck. Miriam was a delegate tothe 2020 Summit and was profiled in the Thinkers category of The AustraliansEmerging Leaders series.

Missy Higgins has struck a profound chord with Australian music fans with herirresistible melodies, arrow through the heart lyrics and a voice that clearlymeans it. Alongside her music career, Missy pursues interests in animal rightsand the environment. Missy has worked with PeTA, is an Animals Australiaambassador, and is a strong voice against the industrialisation of the Kimberley.

Miriam Lyons

Executive Director

Centre for Policy

Development

Missy

Higgins

Singer andSongwriter

Michelle Deshong is a Kulka Yulangi woman from north Queensland. in 2013she was a member of the Australian Government Delegation to CSW 57 andwas previously an NGO representative to the United Nations CEDAW. She ispassionate about womens rights and gender equality and actively campaigns forthe elimination of violence against women and Indigenous womens rights. Sheis currently completing her PhD at James Cook University.

MichelleDeshong

Director

AustralianIndigenousLeadershipCentre

Michael OMeara, of MOHOW, speaks the languages of young people locallyand internationally. Michael has been the Australian Governments preferred leadfacilitator of most major youth consultation and engagement services for the pastdecade.vMichael has twice led the facilitation of the National Youth Roundtablefor FACISA and DEEWR, led the facilitation of the Youth 2020 Summit inCanberra, and was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the AustralianYouth Forum.

Michael

OMeara

Facilitator andFounder

MOHOW


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Phoebe Knowles is a barrister practising in administrative and human rightslaw. She has been involved in both small and large public interest cases,including Haile-Michael v Victoria Police and Eatock v Andrew Bolt & HWT (racial

discrimination) and Environment East Gippsland v VicForests (environmental law).

Rachel Lowry is Director of Wildlife Conservation and Science at Zoos Victoriaand leads a team of highly skilled conservationists and wildlife specialists.She is also President of the International Zoo Educations Association andhas developed award-winning programs that have tackled conservation andsustainability issues both locally and globally.

Phoebe

Knowles

Administrativeand HumanRights LawBarrister

Rachel Lowry

Director, WildlifeConservation andScience

Zoos Victoria

Professor Peter Cashman is a barrister, Director of the Social Justice Program atthe University of Sydney, and Chair of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. Hewas previously with national law firm Maurice Blackburn Cashman (now MauriceBlackburn).

Peter

Cashman

Director

Social JusticeProgram,University ofSydney

Pablo Fracchia is an Argentinean LGBT and human rights activist who wasactively involved in the successful Argentinean Marriage Equality and GenderIdentity Laws. He has a masters in social work, and currently coordinates the

volunteer program of the Argentinean LGBT Federation

Paul is Campaign Manager with international corporate accountability groupSumOfUs.org. From Sydney but based in New York, he previously worked forAvaaz.org, consulted on corporate campaigning in Sweden, and got his start atthe Australian Youth Climate Coalition.

Pablo

Fracchia

LGBT HumanRights Activist(AR)

Paul Ferris

CampaignManager

SumOfUs.org

Onur Ekinici co-initiated Ballarat Co-lab, a co-working space that aims topioneer a new model for regional renewal by transforming communitiesthrough collaboration. Onur also plays an active role in connecting social andenvironmental organisations to Commonground, a remarkable place that helpssustain and nurture changemakers

Onur Ekinici

Co-Initiator

Ballarat Co-lab

Nick Moraitis is Executive Director of Centre for Australian Progress. Nick hasmore than 15 years experience driving social change in New York, Toronto,London and Sydney. He co-founded one of the worlds first social networks,TakingITGlobal.org, played a leading role in the growth of Australias foremostcampaigning organisation GetUp, worked in global strategy at AmnestysInternational Secretariat and managed public engagement for Greenpeace.As founder of Sydney-based consultancy Make Believe, Nick developed winningcampaigns and internal innovation projects for more than seventy non-profits.He currently serves on the boards of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and

the Centre for Policy Development.

Nick Moraitis

Executive Director



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Richard Wilkinson is an author and expert on the societal effects of inequality. Hehas played a formative role in international research on the social determinantsof health and on the societal effects of income inequality. Richard co-wroteThe Spirit Level with Kate Pickett, a book that won the 2011 Political StudiesAssociation Publication of the Year Award and the 2010 Bristol Festival of IdeasPrize. Richard is also a co-founder of The Equality Trust.

Richard

Wilkinson

Co-author, TheSpirit Level (UK)

An economist by training, Richard has worked for the past 20 years in a varietyof policy and political roles. In recent years he has been at the forefront of thenational policy debates surrounding climate change policy and the Australianmining boom.

He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Economics andGovernment.

Richard

DennissExecutive Director

The AustraliaInstitute

Renee Carr is a campaigner and strategist with a passion for growing

movements for positive change. Before joining the team at Fair Agenda,Renee worked at the Global Poverty Project where she served as the AustralianCommunications and Marketing Manager and then international supporterengagement lead. She has played a key role in a number of campaigns andprojects: helping deliver the first ever Live Below the Line campaign in 2010,and Co-Directing the 2011 Australian campaign to raise more than $1.4 million.Renee also played a key role in The End of Polio campaign and concert, whichsecured $118 million in pledges for global polio eradication efforts. Reneecurrently serves as Chair of the Board at the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.She holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts from TheUniversity of Melbourne.

Renee Carr

Campaigner

Fair Agenda

Rebecca Scott is the founding CEO of STREAT, a social enterprise providinghomeless and disadvantaged youth with a pathway from the street toemployment in the hospitality industry. STREAT has now offered over 30,000hours of training across its five businesses.

Regina Schwartz is a world leader in research driven campaigning at theAnalyst Institute. At the Analyst Institute, Regina has designed and implementedhundreds of randomised field experiments. She has also developed an outreachprogram that has conducted hundreds of trainings across the US. The programis focused on scientifically-proven methods for increasing voter turnout andimproving the effectiveness of political communication.

Rebecca

Scott

Founding CEO

STREAT

Regina

Schwartz

Deputy Director

Analyst Institute(US)

Rebecca Wilson is Chief of Staff at GetUp! Previously, Rebecca spent eightyears as as an advisor to the independent Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore,broken by a stints as Campaigns Director for GetUp in 2010, and for Obama forAmerica in South Carolina and Ohio in 2008. When she left Clovers office in early2012 she was Policy Manager.

RebeccaWilson

Chief of Staff

GetUp!

Rachel Perkins is a festival director and filmmaker whose work, including FirstAustralians, Radiance, Mabo and Redfern Now, draws upon her Arrernteand Kalkadoon Australian heritage. She has served on the boards of theAustralian Film Commission, the National Indigenous Television Service, theIndigenous Media Association and currently Screen Australia.

Rachel

Perkins

Director,Filmmaker andWriter

Blackfella Films


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s Sally McManus is NSW Branch Secretary of the Australian Services Union.The Australian Services Union is the union for non-government community anddisability workers and is one of the fastest growing unions in the country. Sallyhas been instrumental in the establishment of Destroy the Joint and the successof the Equal Pay campaign for community sector workers.

Sam Mclean is National Director of GetUp, Australias leading communitycampaigning organisation, with more than 600,000 online members.

Sam has worked with GetUp for five years, spearheading key campaigns onissues such as mental health, renewable energy, human rights, pokies reformand international aid. He is also a Co-Chair of Progress 2013.

Sally Hill is the co-founder of Wildwon Projects, a creative partnership thatdesign experiences to influence behaviour, attitudes and outcomes on majorenvironmental and social issues. She is an alumni of the Centre for SustainabilityLeadership and is a current World Economic Forum Global Shaper

Sally

McManus

NSW BranchSecretary

AustralianServices Union

Sam Mclean

National Director

GetUp!/Co-Chairof Progress 2013

Sally Hill

Impact Strategist

Wildwon

Robert Manne is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellors Fellow atLa Trobe University. He is the author or editor of twenty books including Do NotDisturb: Is the Media Failing Australia? and Bad News: Murdochs Australian

and the Shaping of the Nation.

Rodney Croome AM is National Director of Australian Marriage Equality andspokesperson for the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group. He was made aMember of the Order of Australia for his LGBT human rights advocacy in 2003.

Robert

Manne

Author andEmeritusProfessor ofPolitics

Latrobe University

Rodney

Croome

National Director

AustralianMarriage Equality

Rob Moodie is Professor of Public Health at the Melbourne School of PopulationHealth. Previously, he was the inaugural Chair of Global Health at the NossalInstitute. He was CEO of VicHealth from 1998 to 2007 and chaired the NationalPreventative Health Taskforce from 2008 to 2011.

Rob MoodieProfessor ofPublic Health

MelbourneSchool ofPopulationHealth,MelbourneUniversity

Robert Purves is a businessman and an environmentalist. After a long career inpublic companies, he established the Purves Environmental Fund in 2004. He isthe President of WWF-Australia and also a founding member of the WentworthGroup of Concerned Scientists.

Rob Purves

Founder

PurvesEnvironmentalFund


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Tim is founder of Green Music Australia. He is a musician and environmentalistwho left his position as Communications Director to Christine Milne to achieve hisdream of making Green Music Australia a reality. With FourPlay String Quartet,Tim has recorded four albums, toured internationally and played backing stringswith some of Australias best known and loved musicians.

Tim Hollo

Founder

Green MusicAustralia

Tim Costello is CEO of World Vision Australia and Co-Chair of Progress 2013.

Tim is one of Australias most sought after voices on social justice issues,leadership and ethics, having spearheaded public debates on gambling, urbanpoverty, homelessness, reconciliation and substance abuse. He has also beeninstrumental in ensuring that the issues surrounding global poverty are placed onthe national agenda.

Tim Goodwin is a member of the Yuin people of the South East Coast of NewSouth Wales. Tim is a board member of Centre for Australian Progress andcurrently a lawyer in Melbourne, having graduated from Harvard Law Schoolwith a Master of Laws in 2012. He is a Board Member of the Australian ResearchAlliance for Children and Youth and a Trustee of the Reichstein Foundation.He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Australian Indigenous Law Review.

Tim was a member of the Steering Committee for the establishment of a NationalIndigenous Representative Body from 2008-2010. This work led to the creationof the National Congress of Australias First Peoples.

Tim Costello

CEO

World VisionAustralia/Co-Chair of Progress2013

Tim Goodwin

Board Member


Sue Pieters-Hawke is a speaker, writer and advisor and a well-known advocatefor issues surrounding dementia, healthy aging, aged care reform, carer supportand innovative social engagement. Sue co-chairs the Federal Ministers DementiaAdvisory Group, and works throughout the community to promote fresh thinkingand reform regarding dementia, aging and aged care.

Suelette Dreyfus is an Australian-American technology journalist and researcher,and author of the 1997 cult classic Underground: Hacking, Madness andObsession on the Electronic Frontier. She is a Principal Researcher at theUniversity of Melbourne, where she leads an international study on the impact ofdigital technologies on whistleblowing.

Sue Pieters-

Hawke

Speaker, Writerand Aged Care

Advocate

Suelette

Dreyfus

PrincipalResearcher

University ofMelbourne

Scott Ludlam is an Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia. He has beena leading voice on digital rights including internet censorship and mandatory dataretention, as well as other policy areas such as energy market reform, nuclearwaste, and housing affordability.

Scott LudlamAustralian GreensSenator forWestern Australia

Scott Rankin is Creative Director and Co-Founder of Big hART. He is also a multi-award winning theatre writer and director and leader in the field of social andcultural Innovation. He has created such works as Box the Pony, Namatjira,Ngapartji Ngapartji and StickybrickS. Big hART assist individuals, communitiesand policy makers to develop and change as a result of the processes involved incultural activity and art-making.

Scott Rankin

Co-founder andCreative Director

Big hART


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Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and the Deputy Leader of the LaborParty from 2010 to 2013, and the Treasurer of Australia from 2007 to 2013.Wayne Swan was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1993 for Lilleyin Queensland. He regained the seat in 1998 and has represented it ever since.Following Labors victory in 2007, Swan was appointed Treasurer.

Wayne Swan

(MP)

Federal Memberfor Lilley

Virginia Gordon is a public affairs specialist with two decades building successfulcampaigns for clients working in the non-profit, arts and media sectors. She willpresent a case study of a successful campaign which led to funding cuts beingreversed, as well as provide insights into how to work effectively and achieveresults with the current federal government.

Viv is passionate about young people leading social change, and is CEO of theOaktree Australias largest youth aid organisation.

Vivs work has taken her across the Asia-Pacific region, from the city slums ofIndia and Bangladesh, to the mountainous villages of East Timor and Nepal.

VirginiaGordon

Public AffairsSpecialist

Viv Benjamin

CEO

The Oaktree

Tony Burke is Federal Labor member for Watson, Shadow Minister for Finance,and Manager of Opposition Business. Between 2007 and 2013, he servedas Minister in a variety of portfolios including Immigration, Multicultural Affairs,Environment and the Arts.

Trudy has worked in the philanthropic sector for over 15 years, initially with theStegley Foundation and more recently the Australian Communities Foundation.Trudy was a founding member of Changemakers Australia.

Tony Burke

(MP)

Federal Memberfor Watson

Trudy Wyse

Director

AustralianCommunitiesFoundation,PhilanthropyConsultingService

Tim works with Purpose in New York City and London developing and launchingsocial and consumer movements. He has worked as a speechwriter and senioreconomic adviser for two Australian prime ministers and an opposition leader,founded an education organisation, and also co-authored Australias best-sellingeconomics textbook.

Tim DixonSenior Strategist

Purpose

Professor Tim Flannery is chair of the non-profit Climate Council. He waspreviously chief of the Australian Governments Climate Commission. He is theauthor of The Weather Makers (2005), and The Future Eaters (1994) and wasAustralian of the Year in 2007.

Tim Flannery

Chair

Climate Council


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Will Steffen is a researcher, writer and communicator who explores the evolvingrelationship between human societies and the natural world we inhabit. Currentlybased at the Australian National University in Canberra, he has had a long careerin global change research, policy and communication at an international level,including a six year stint as CEO of the worlds largest global change researchprogram, based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Will Steffen

Executive Director

ANU ClimateChange Institute

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Progress 2013 Speaker Bios