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Graeme Taylor
Graeme Taylor is the coordinator of BEST Futures (www.bestfutures.org) a project using evolutionary systems theory to model societal change, analyse global problems and develop viable solutions. He is the author of Evolution’s Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World, which won the Independent Publisher’s 2009 Gold Medal for the book “most likely to save the planet”.
Graeme is also an Adjunct Reader with the School of Integrative Systems, University of Queensland; an Adviser to the 2010 World Peace Festival; an Honorary Research Adviser to the Australian Peace and Conflict Centre; and a PhD Candidate at the Griffith School of Environment in Brisbane.
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Mark Ricketts
Mark has been project officer for the Sunshine Coast Environment Council, drafted Qld’s pollution control law, advised Lord Mayor Jim Soorley on environmental policy for Brisbane and then ran their waste system for a decade. He spent 3 years based in Samoa assisting the nations of the Pacific and learning about the important things in life. He has lived in a sustainable house in Maleny for 25 years but blows all his good work by driving to the beach for a surf whenever he can.
Beverly Hand
Beverly Hand is a descendent of the people who once occupied the region of Blackall Range from the Mary River to the Cooloola and Sunshine Coast. Over the past twenty years she has engaged in adventures throughout the region of her ancestors and is passionate about the area. Beverly is a past executive of the Sunshine Coast Environment Council and has actively participated in caring for country for the past eighteen years. She is currently a committee member of Barung Landcare and holds an executive position with Interactive Community Planning, a social planning organisation. She is also the co-ordinator of the Bunya Dreaming in Maleny, a festival reclaiming the great Bunya Festivals held in the region by her ancestors.
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Chris Darwin
Chris Darwin, great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, is an environmental philanthropist, an adventurer and an author. He has organised the highest dinner party in the world, windsurfed around Britain and currently lives in the Blue Mountains where he is a mountain guide. He is currently writing his third book, A Good Planet is Hard to Find, a guidebook to help parents give their children a healthy planet.
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Dr Linda Williams
Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT
Linda Williams is Associate Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at RMIT University, where she runs the Art and Environmental Sustainability research cluster. She has published widely on visual culture and on cultural interpretations of the non-human world, especially human-animal relations. Other research interests include the history and philosophy of culture and its relationship to the history of science. In 2008 she curated a major international exhibition at RMIT gallery in Melbourne: HEAT: Art and Climate Change which was the first exhibition of its kind in Australia, and widely acclaimed.
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Robyn Archer
Robyn Archer is a singer, writer, director, artistic director and arts advocate. Her cabaret Que-reste t¹il is part of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival to be held in June 2009. Her play Architektin premiered in Adelaide last September and has further interest in Australia/USA. In March she presented the Creative NZ showcases in Auckland and then travelled to Pittsburgh to direct the Brechtian cabaret she devised for the Drama School, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh. Robyn is Artistic Director of the annual Light in Winter, which she created for Federation Square, mentor to Mildura Arts, and is developing new events for Perth and Canberra. She is in global demand as a speaker and her Wal Cherry Lecture is published in abridged form in the Griffith Review. Robyn is patron of Australian Art Orchestra, Brink, Australian Script Centre, Arts Law Society and Institute of Postcolonial Studies. She has associations with RMIT¹s Globalism Institute and the Women¹s International Development Agency. She is an Officer of the Order of Australia, Chevalier de l¹Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) and holds Honorary Degrees from Flinders and Sydney Universities.
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www.robynarcher.com.au
Professor Kambiz Maani
Chair in Systems Thinking and Practice, University of Queensland
Professor Kambiz Maani is the holder of UQ-AgResearch Chair in Systems Thinking and Practice at the University of Queensland. Professor Maani’s academic and consulting career spans over 25 years in the USA, Asia, Australasia, and South America. He is an internationally acknowledged expert in systems thinking, organisational learning and leadership and has lectured internationally, holding visiting positions at a number of universities including MIT, London Business School, Boston University, Cornel and Helsinki School of Economics. He is the recipient of several research and publication awards from international academic journals, has published widely and consulted to numerous organisations in Australasia and around the world. He is the lead author of internationally acclaimed book Systems thinking, Systems Dynamics - Managing Change and Complexity which is used widely at universities and corporations around the world.
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www.sys-think.com
Dr Jason Potts
School of Economics, University of Queensland & Centre for Creative Innovation, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Potts is an internationally renowned expert on the theory of economic evolution, the process by which economic systems adapt to technological and environmental changes. He has written two books on this topic: ‘The new evolutionary microeconomics’ (2000) and ‘The general theory of economic evolution’ (2008). Dr Potts also specialises in the economics of creative industries and the role of the arts and cultural sector in the innovation process. He has published numerous articles and consultancy reports on the co-evolution of cultural, technological and economic change. He is currently writing a book for the UK’s IEA on the evolutionary economics of climate change.
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Professor Amareswar Galla
Professor, Museum Studies, University of Queensland
Amareswar Galla provides Strategic Cultural Leadership in Australia and the Pacific Asia Region as the Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane and Curator of Intercultural Dialogue at the Casual Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney. He is a regular visitor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, working on the implementation of Museums and Cultural Diversity promotion in the Netherlands. He is the Founding Convener of the Pacific Asia Observatory for Cultural Diversity in Human Development (UNESCO Project) and a Trustee of the Pacific Islands Museums Association. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability.
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Dr Susan Cochrane
Post-Doctoral Fellow, English, Museum and Studies in Art History, University of Queensland
Susan Cochrane is an independent scholar, author and curator whose engagement with contemporary arts and cultures in the Pacific spans over twenty years. She is the author of Contemporary Art in Papua New Guinea (1997), Beretara: Contemporary Pacific Art (2001), Art and Life in Melanesia (2007) and is currently working on a new book PNG Art: Village, Urban, Global. Susan has curated major events with Pacific artists including the Sydney Olympics Arts Festival and Asia-Pacific Triennial. She was the foundation curator of contemporary Pacific art for the Tjibaolu Cultural Centre in New Caledonia and guest curator of Across Oceans and Time: Art in the Contemporary Pacific exhibition in Taiwan. Susan acts as a consultant / guest curator to art galleries and museums.
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Professor Peter Bycroft
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sunshine Coast
Peter Bycroft, the Managing Director of Corporate Diagnostics, is a recognised expert in market research, quality management and improving organisational performance. He is an Environmental Psychologist and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Peter was formerly Visiting Professor in Quality Management at the University of New South Wales, Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, and has held Head of Department positions at three of Australia’s top Universities.
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Dr Claudia Baldwin
Lecturer, Environment and Planning Studies, University of the Sunshine Coast
Dr Claudia Baldwin is a lecturer in Regional and Urban Planning at University of Sunshine Coast, having previously spent over 25 years in government and consulting. Her main areas of research are related to the social dimensions of natural resource planning and management, particularly water planning.
Dr Lisa Chandler
Lecturer in Art and Design, University of the Sunshine Coast
Dr Lisa Chandler is a lecturer in Art and Design at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and a foundation director of the University Gallery. She has worked as a graphic designer, artist and exhibition curator and written numerous scholarly articles and catalogue essays. She is a long-term Sunshine Coast resident and has been active in the regional arts industry for many years, including involvement with the Regional Arts Development Fund, curatorship for the Noosa Long Weekend festival, and as an advisory group and board member for various cultural organisations. In 2009 she was awarded the Sunshine Coast Regional Council Australia Day Creative Award for her contribution to creative and cultural industries in the region.
Susan Davis
Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Business, Informatics and Education, Central Queensland University
Susan Davis is a lecturer and professional learning consultant at Central Queensland University, Noosa. She has been an educator for more than 20 years, working mainly as a Drama Educator and Performing Arts Head of Department. Her research and publishing has been in the areas of arts education, creativity and assessment. She has worked as a project and policy officer for Education Queensland developing curriculum packages utilising arts processes, and also as an equity consultant to the National Arts curriculum project. She has been on various committees including current membership of the Noosa Creative Alliance, and the Cultural Sector Board for the Noosa Biosphere. In 2009 she is Adviser to the Department of Education, Training and the Arts for the Year of Creativity.
Professor Ockie Bosch
Head of School, School of Integrative Systems, University of Queensland
Professor Ockie Bosch has been a practicing scientist for 40 years. He is currently Chair of the International Committee for Systems Education, member of the Noosa Biosphere Education and Research & Development Board, and serves on the Academic Board of The University of Queensland. He has published more than 60 articles in scientific journals around the world. Professor Bosch’s current research/professional specialties and interests are in Systems Thinking and dynamics; and Sustainable Development with a focus on natural, production and agribusiness systems.
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Sione Paasia
Sione Paasia is from the Ariki (Chief) Clan of Takuu (Mortlock Island) and his father is the current Maatua (Head) of the Clan and Chief of Takuu. Sione grew up on the island before adventuring to Melbourne to complete a Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace) and a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from UNITECH. Sione is now a consultant providing technical support in quality & safety for aviation companies within PNG.
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Neil Davidson
Neil Davidson has a degree in Science (Marine Biology and Geology) with Honours in Marine Sedimentology. He has over 18 years experience in government dealing with environmental impact mitigation, environmental management information systems, environmental management systems, environmental auditing, Greenhouse Emissions Inventories for the built environment, initiating and managing the Qld Sustainable Technology Development Program, conducting a systems-based analysis of Greywater re-use strategies and in industry cluster development (Lighting Innovation Centre) nationally across industry, academic and government agencies.
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Dr Mark Hayes
Lecturer, Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland
Dr Mark Hayes is a lecturer in journalism at the University of Queensland where he specialises in Pacific media and journalism contexts and practices. He has traveled to Tuvalu four times between late 2002 and early 2008, to work with Radio Tuvalu’s journalists, conduct co-operative research into journalism in and on Tuvalu, and report on the effects of global warming on Tuvalu.
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