Speakers


Ambassador James Larsen

Permanent Representative of Australia at the United Nations.

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Hugh de Kretser

President, Australian Human Rights Commission.

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Steve Killelea, AM

Founder and Executive Chairman, Institute for Economics and Peace.

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Professor Monica Attard OAM

Co-Director, Centre For Media Transition, UTS

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Professor Simon Barrie

Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Newcastle, Emeritus Professor at Western Sydney University and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney.

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Iris Brown

President of United Nations Youth Australia

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Professor Attila Brungs

President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales

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Anthony Downhill

Administration and Grants teams of the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA)

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Major General Tim Ford AO

Retired from the Australian Army in 2003, following an extensive 40-year career in the Australian Defence Force and the United Nations

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Dr Courtney Fung

Associate Professor, Discipline of Security Studies in the School of International Studies at Macquarie University 

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 Miklos Gaspar

Director of the UN Information Centre (UNIC)

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Professor Barney Glover AO

Commissioner of Jobs and Skills Australia

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Professor Peter Greste

Professor of Journalism at Macquarie University and Executive Director of a not-for-profit advocacy group, the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom

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Richelle Harrison Plesse

Journalist and Presenter, SBS World News

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Ben Lee

Principal, LEE.ADV | PEACEBUILDING

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Dr Selina Namchee Lo

Executive Director, Australian Global Health Alliance

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Esperanza Martinez

Professor of Practice and Head of Health and Human Security, Australian National University

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Thomas Mayo

Assistant National Secretary of the MUA, and an award-winning author, essayist, orator and a signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart 

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Ryan Neelam

Director of the Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program at the Lowy Institute

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Justine Nolan

Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute and a Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW Sydney

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Major General Cheryl Pearce AM CSC

Acting Military Advisor, Office of the Military Adviser

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Andrew Peterson

Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council for Sustainable

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Dr Vanessa Pirotta

Chief Scientist, Wild Sydney Harbour. Chief Data Scientist, Rapiscan Systems, Honorary Postdoctoral Researcher, Macquarie University. 


Gary Quinlan AO FAIIA

Board Member of Advance Global Australians, and retired from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) following his term as Ambassador to Indonesia (2018–2021)

Fiona Reynolds

Chair, UN Global Compact Network, Australia

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Angela Robinson

First Assistant Secretary, Multilateral Policy and Human Rights Division 

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Scientia Professor Veena Sahajwalla AO

Director, Sustainable Materials Research and  Technology Centre, University of NSW.

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Peter Shmigel

Founder of Revolve ReCYCLING, a social enterprise that gives refurbished bicycles to disadvantaged children.

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Leanne Smith

Chief Executive, Australian Human Rights Commission

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Ambassador Gabriele Visentin

Ambassador of the European Union to Australia

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For further information:

Contact the Conference Organisers:

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Address  

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Phone

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