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Australian Volunteers International (AVI) "is an independent not-for-profit organisation, a company limited by guarantee and registered as a charity and deductible gift recipient.
"We manage people-centred development projects and programs in a wide range of countries. Our work focuses on reducing poverty, providing health and education services, promoting human rights and gender equality, and protecting the environment." [1]
Contents
Senior Management
Accessed September 2008: [2]
- Dimity Fifer, Chief Executive Officer
- Peter Britton, Senior Manager International Services
- Dave Jones, Senior Manager Business Services
Directors
Accessed September 2008: [3]
- Bob Meyenn (Chair)
- Justice Richard Refshauge (Deputy Chair)
- Alison Crook AO
- Kurt Fearnley OAM
- Robert McLean
- Samantha Mostyn
Council
Accessed September 2008: [4]
- Margaret Jackson (Aus) AC (President) - Chairman of FlexiGroup Limited and a director of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Billabong International Limited and Florey Neuroscience Institutes.
- Bill Armstrong AO (Life Member) - CEO of Australian Volunteers International 1982-2002. AVI volunteer Malaysia 1975-76
- Veronica Brady - Author and Honorary Senior Research Fellow; Department of English, University of Western Australia
- Graham Brown - Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health, The University of Melbourne
- Linda Burney - Director-General of the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs
- Margaret Chandra - National Manager Support and Admin, Employment Programs Australia; AVI volunteer, India 1966-67
- Fred Chaney - Co-chair, Reconciliation Australia; Deputy President, National Native Title Tribunal
- Mary Chapman - Landscape Architect, Australian Landscape Management
- WFM (Martin) Clemens, CBE, AM,MC (Life Member)
- Alison Crook AO (Board Member) - Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Resources), Monash University; AVI volunteer, Papua New Guinea 1971-72
- Alan Davis - Principal, Newcomb Secondary College; AVI volunteer, Maldives 1977-78, 2005
- Cameron Dick - Senior Ministerial Policy Adviser, Queensland State Government; AVI volunteer, Tuvalu 1993-96
- Tom Evison - Senior Lecturer, Education, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education; AVI volunteer, Malaysia 1979-80, Zimbabwe 1990-91
- Kurt Fearnley OAM (Board Member) - Australian champion wheelchair racing athlete; gold medallist Athens 2006 Paralympic Games; silver medallist Sydney 2004 Paralympic games; Finalist, Young Australian of the Year 2005; Australian Male Athlete of the Year 2004
- Betty Feith (Life Member) - AVI volunteer Indonesia 1954-55, 1996-97
- Christopher Fogarty - General Counsel, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, Sydney, AVI volunteer in Papua New Guinea 1972
- Gaye Hart - Director, Hunter Institute - TAFE NSW; President, Australian Council for International Development (ACFID - formerly ACFOA)
- John Kerin - Former Minister for Trade and Overseas Development, Primary Industries and Energy, Transport and Communications; Board Member, UNICEF Australia
- Jean Ker Walsh (Deputy President) - Director and Principal Consultant, Ker Walsh Communications
- Marilyn Kong - AVI volunteer, Papua New Guinea 1999-2000
- Jean-Gabriel Manguy (Board Member) - Head Manager of Radio Australia; AVI volunteer community development worker 1987-88
- Elaine McKay - Member of Volunteer Graduate Scheme 1958-60
- Robert McLean (Board Member) - Certified Practising Accountant with extensive experience in finance and risk management; AVI volunteer lecturer in Malaysia 1974-75
- Bob Meyenn (Chair of Board) - Provost and Special Adviser Ontario, Charles Sturt University; AVI volunteer, Solomon Islands 1966-67
- Samantha Mostyn (Board Member) - Group Executive, Culture and Reputation, IAG
- Hugh O'Neil (Life Member) - AVI volunteer Indonesia 1958-60
- Robyn Pugh - Senior Epidemiologist, Communicable Diseases Unit, Queensland Health; AVI volunteer, Papua New Guinea 1975-76, Thailand 1980
- Richard Refshauge SC (Board Member) - Director of Public Prosecutions, ACT; AVI volunteer, Papua New Guinea 1965
- Chris Sidoti - School of Applied Social and Human Sciences, University of Western Sydney
- Geraldine Skinner - Chief Executive Officer, Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership
- Pamela Smith (Aus) - AVI Honorary State Representative, Northern Territory
- Barbara Spalding - Consultant in Human Services
- Ninian Stephen - Former High Court judge and Governor-General of Australia
- Kathy Sullivan (Aus) - Former Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Baden Teague - Writer and former Senator for South Australia
- Katrina Watson - Deputy Director of Gastroenterology, St Vincent's Hospital; AVI volunteer, Samoa 1997-98
- Sally-Ann Watts - National Manager, ICT, Biotechnology and Emerging Industries, Austrade
- Jim Webb (Aus) OBE (Life Member) - Founding Director of Overseas Service Bureau 1961
Contact
Resources and articles
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References
- ↑ About, Australian Volunteers International, accessed September 1, 2008.
- ↑ Senior Management, Australian Volunteers International, accessed September 1, 2008.
- ↑ Directors, Australian Volunteers International, accessed September 1, 2008.
- ↑ Council, Australian Volunteers International, accessed September 1, 2008.
