Advisory board

Cameron Neil
Cameron Neil is a social entrepreneur and strategist engaged in building and tweaking markets, institutions, businesses and networks to achieve more good for people and planet. Cameron recently finished a 7 year stint bringing the regional fair trade movement and market to life with Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand. He serves on the Ross House Association Executive Committee in finance and fundraising roles, is developing a pilot project on indigenous fair trade, and is nurturing a relaunch of the International Young Professionals Foundation he co-founded in 2001 to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Over the last decade, Cameron has proven himself as a leader, campaigner, facilitator, public speaker, manager, researcher and writer. He communicates on food sustainability and ethics, social enterprise and innovation, good business, and tackling global poverty and sustainable development.

Hiroshi Kikuchi
Creative Director - Brandism® Pty Ltd
Hiroshi is a Creative Director of Brandism® Pty Ltd, a multi-award winning and multi-disciplined creative agency with a core focus on brand creation and strategy management. Hiroshi's career spans well over 20 years, and in which time has accumulated specialised experience in such areas as brand and corporate identity, packaging for local and export markets, advertising, web-site and new media development for mainly "Fast Moving Consumer Goods" (FMCG) industries. He has been featured as a guest speaker for the Victorian Government's - Design Victoria "Design Ready" series of seminars. Hiroshi's company has also been the recipient of Seven Gold Awards from the prestigious Packaging Council of Australia (PCA) six years in a row.

Susan Long
Events Manager – Law Institute of Victoria
As the Events Manager at the Law Institute of Victoria, the leading membership association for Victorian lawyers, Susan has organised hundreds of events including sold out productions at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Fun Runs for 1000+ participants, panel discussions at various Melbourne festivals, and corporate events featuring prominent speakers from the legal, business and political arena. Susan has also managed the largest membership section at the LIV where she worked with over 70 volunteers to produce a triannual journal, mooting and negotiation competitions, a mentoring program between judges and young lawyers, submissions to government, a monthly newsletter and many events for the membership section. Prior to life at the LIV, Susan worked as a commercial lawyer, focusing on mergers and acquisitions.
In 2009, Susan explored her interest in fairtrade by coordinating the Fair Living tent at the Fair@Square Festival. She thinks that the best part of her job is bringing inspiring people and the knowledge they have, to the public’s attention.

Georgia Garrard
Georgia Garrard is an ecologist at the University of Melbourne. She has a PhD from RMIT which investigated ways in which science can be used to better inform the conservation of threatened species. During her time at RMIT, Georgia taught a number of sustainability orientated subjects, and developed a keen interest in Fair Trade and ethical purchasing. She believes that, by understanding the social, cultural and environmental impacts of products and services, consumers become empowered to make change and can have an important positive impact. Prior to completing her PhD, Georgia worked in environmental consulting and spent some time managing an eco-lodge on Tasmania’s Freycinet Peninsula.

Steve Waldegrave
Steve Waldegrave currently works for the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and before that worked at the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Victoria. Steve is a career public servant who specialises in strategy and policy advice. He has worked in British, Australian and New Zealand Governments in both operational and central government agencies. He has been a Deputy Director of the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, including representing the UK at the OECD. He has also run his own strategy and policy consultancy called Focusmatters.
Steve’s voluntary work has included being the Urgent Action Coordinator for Amnesty International in Wellington and a volunteer for the Victorian State Emergency Services (VICSES). In his spare time, Steve loves to cook, eat, speak French, practice outdoor survival skills and muck around in the garden.