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  • Mar, 2012

    David Whiteley – Industry Super Network Chief Executive

    David is Chief Executive of Industry Super Network (ISN), a Director of ACTU Member Connect, is on the Investment Advisory Board of Industry Funds Management and is an Alternate Director of AustralianSuper. He is also a founder of the Super Cadets program, to identify and develop the next generation of leaders in not for profit super.

  • Mar, 2012

    Kirsten Deane – Deputy National Campaign Director – Every Australian Counts

    Kirsten Deane is the Executive Director of the National Disability and Carer Alliance and the Deputy Campaign Director of the Every Australian Counts Campaign for a National Disability Insurance Scheme. She has three children (including a daughter with Down syndrome) and as a result spends a lot of time running and not much time sleeping.

  • Mar, 2012

    Tim Ayres – AMWU NSW Secretary

    Tim Ayres is the NSW Secretary of the AMWU and a member of the ALP national executive.

  • Feb, 2012

    James Coyle – AustralianSuper

    James is responsible for AustralianSuper’s extensive marketing and communications activities. This includes marketing initiatives designed to retain and increase AustralianSuper’s significant membership base. He has considerable experience across the financial services sector, particularly within superannuation. He was the Marketing and Business Development General Manager for both Hesta and Telstra Super and held positions with NAB and Macquarie Bank.

  • Feb, 2012

    John Hepburn – Greenpeace Australia Pacific

    John Hepburn is a senior campaigner with Greenpeace Australia Pacific. He has worked on a wide variety of environmental campaigns for the past 15 years including in India, China and Japan. In 2006 he co-ordinated the successful Greenpeace International campaign to prevent the imminent commercial release of genetically engineered rice into China.

  • Feb, 2012

    Miriam Lyons – Centre for Policy Development

    Miriam Lyons is the executive director of public interest think tank the Centre for Policy Development (CPD). Miriam was a delegate to the 2020 Summit and was profiled in the Thinkers category of The Australian’s Emerging Leaders series. She has a history of bringing policy ideas to new audiences, as the former director of the Interface Festival of Ideas in Sydney, and the Ideas Program for the Straight out of Brisbane Festival. She is an occasional guest on the ABC shows Q&A and The Drum and co-edited the book ‘More Than Luck: Ideas Australia needs now‘

  • Feb, 2012

    Peter Verwer – Property Council Australia

    Peter Verwer is Chief Executive of the Property Council Australia, the nation’s leading advocate for the $670 billion investment property industry. Peter is driving the PCA’s public advocacy on the future of Australian cities, working with a wide range of business, environmental and community groups to argue for better long term planning by all level of government. Peter also chairs Liveable Housing Australia, the National Counter Terrorism Mass Gatherings Business Advisory Group and the Construction Forecasting Council.

  • Feb, 2012

    Melina Morrison – Social Business Australia

    Melina is a Director of Australia’s Secretariat for the International Year of Co-operatives and a member of the voluntary board of management – the IYC 2012 Steering Committee. Melina has written on co-operatives and the social economy for a decade for international and national publications (four years as Associate Editor of the International Co-operative Alliance e-Digest). Melina has wide experience engaging social and mainstream media on how we build social capital through profitable social businesses.

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