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Workshop Moderator

Charlie Allen
Director of Partnerships
Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)

Speakers

Steve Killelea AM
Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)

Michael Hitz
Director, Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)

Tony Stuart
CEO, UNICEF Australia

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Charles Allen

Charles in the Director of Partnerships with the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). These partnerships include strategic and grass roots partners inclusive of governments, non-government organisations, business, education organisations, service groups and other institutes. Through partnerships he is activating IEP’s Positive Peace framework globally.

In his previous role with Victoria Police, Australia, he led strategic and operational change shifting policing to adopt community engagement.

Charles is a Rotary Peace Fellow alumni and an active Rotarian. He is currently the Vice President of the Rotary Club of Sydney.

Steve Killelea AM

Steve Killelea A.M is a global philanthropist focused on peace and sustainable development, with a long, successful career in high technology and international business development. Over the last two decades, Steve has applied his business skills to his many global philanthropic activities, established an internationally renowned global think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace and a private family charity, The Charitable Foundation, which now has over three million direct beneficiaries. He is a sought after international speaker, has received many international awards and is regularly quoted in the media on various subjects, including business, global peacefulness, terrorism and social development.

More than 20 years ago, he established The Charitable Foundation, now one of the largest private overseas aid organisations based in Australia providing life-changing programs to some of the poorest communities in the world including, emergency and famine relief, environment rehabilitation, and rehabilitating former child soldiers.

Steve’s deep commitment to peace has earned him two Nobel Peace Prize nominations. He is the founder of the independent think tank IEP and the Global Peace Index, the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness. In 2013, a coalition of Australian Foundations recognised his funding of IEP as one of the 50 most impactful philanthropic gifts in Australia’s history. In the same year, the Action on Armed Violence group, recognised Steve as one of the 100 most influential people in the world on reducing armed violence. Steve serves on the President’s Circle for Club de Madrid, the largest forum of former world leaders working to strengthen democracy.

As an entrepreneur in the high technology industry, Steve founded and built one of Australia’s leading publicly listed IT companies. Steve served as a board member of the Australian Information Industry Association and sat on a number of private company and government boards including the Australian Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis and the CSIRO. In 2001, Steve founded Smarter Capital, a venture capital company that specialises in investing in unique technologies with global applicability.

Michael Hitz

Michael is a director of the Institute for Economics and Peace, and works with Janchor Partners Limited, a Hong Kong based international investment fund with an industrialist mindset.

Previously Michael worked for over a decade with The Boston Consulting Group, an international strategy and management consultancy. Michael has spent his career helping companies grow and to think about innovation and their own role in creating our future.

As an investment analyst, Michael now works with portfolio companies, and as a potential shareholder, to help companies think about how they can measure and communicate their contributions to the sustainable development goals most relevant to them.

Tony Stuart

Tony Stuart is the Chief Executive Officer of UNICEF Australia. Prior to joining UNICEF, Tony was the Group CEO of National Roads and Motorists Association (NRMA), Australia’s largest member organisation. Previous roles include CEO of Sydney Airports Corp, Director of Development at Manchester Airport and General Manager at British Airways.

Tony is Chair of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) Advisory Board, founding Director of the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Tony holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Canterbury.