Before joining the Aspen Institute in 1994, Alan Abramson was on the research staff of the Urban Institute. Alan has served on many nonprofit boards and advisory committees, and is currently a member of the boards of the National Council of Nonprofit Associations (NCNA), the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington, and NPower of the Greater DC Region. He is also an adjunct professor in Georgetown University's graduate public policy program, where he teaches a seminar on the nonprofit sector.

Alan Abramson received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University and his B.A. from Wesleyan University. He is the author and co-author of numerous books and papers, and his work has twice won awards from the American Political Science Association. Alan has also been named among the 50 most influential leaders in the nonprofit sector by the NonProfit Times, one of the leading trade publications for the nonprofit sector.
 

Rick is a faculty member and Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he is also a fellow of Stanford’s Center for Social Innovation. He is one of the co-authors of Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income (Jossey Bass, 2004). Rick has also authored several Stanford case studies on social entrepreneurial organizations. He has lectured on social entrepreneurship at Stanford, UC Berkeley, the London Business School, Bainbridge Graduate School, The Indian Institute of Planning and Management in Delhi and at numerous international conferences. Rick’s work at Rubicon has been cited in the Harvard Business Review, the Brookings Institute Journal, and the New York Times.

Rick was selected in 2001 by the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation as one of the world leading Social Entrepreneurs as one of the inaugural Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur fellows. Since 2001 he has regularly presented the work of Rubicon, the Schwab Foundation and social entrepreneurs at the World Economic Forum Annual meeting in Davos. Rick’s work with the Schwab Foundation has helped build the field of social entrepreneurship.

Rick earned his BA from Syracuse University, MA in Psychology from West Georgia University, and Ph.D. in Psychology . Wright Institute at Berkeley, Ca. Rick is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Program for Nonprofit Leaders. He lives with his wife and two sons in the San Francisco Bay Area in the US
 

In 1985 Anne jointly established a firm of consulting lawyers who pioneered the specialist practice of legal audit and compliance. This initiative involved working on-site with clients to develop strategies for differing aspects of legal risk management. Since then Anne has worked mostly with Christian not for profit and educational institutions, advising on a wide range of charities and education law matters, in particular tax, corporate, child protection, employment, religious freedom and other legal risk management issues.

She has also been involved in governance of not for profit organisations for twenty five years, on the boards of two independent schools over the past fourteen years, and is presently on the boards of a number of Australian not for profit public companies, including World Vision Australia.
 

Much of Dominic's recent experience has been in advising organisations in the private welfare field and other non-government entities.

Dominic has a commitment to assisting the not-for-profit sector negotiating the often quite complex world of compliance, and is currently involved in the establishment of the Australian branch of an international charity.

Dominic is a director of the Mary MacKillop Foundation Limited.
 

A graduate in law and honours arts from the University of Melbourne, Jack served in Government for ten years including as a diplomat and later as speechwriter to Federal Government ministers including as Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Keating. Jack carried the torch in the Sydney Olympics Torch Relay and was awarded a Centenary Medal for services to the community. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Equity Trustees Non Profit CEO Award for Innovation.

Since 1998 he has been President of Sakya Tharpa Ling Tibetan Buddhist Institute and Meditation Centre in Sydney and in 2002 he was a national organizer for the Dalai Lama's Australian Tour. He is also a husband and father who has spent too much of his life doing overly serious things.
 

In 1999, Jan was the first non US based recipient of a Fellowship to the Peter F Drucker Foundation. She currently serves on the Boards of the Inspire Foundation, Social Firms of Australia and the International Board of Advisors of the Medical Knowledge Institute Foundation.
 

At Harvard University, West was Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Business Administration, where he taught in the fields of innovation, operations, and business strategy. His research focuses on the roots of comparative national performance innovation systems, particularly in the fields of agribusiness, the life sciences, and biotechnology.

At Harvard, West was founder and faculty director of the Harvard Life Sciences Project, a multi-faculty university initiative to understand the economic dynamics of the revolution in life sciences. He is also the author of a detailed study of advanced technology development in US and Japanese semiconductor companies, and has studied the technology development strategies of leading semiconductor firms in Europe, Korea, and Taiwan.

West has served as a consultant to and board member of major corporations and several governments around the world, particularly in the fields of agribusiness and life sciences. His doctoral and masters degrees are from Harvard University, and he holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Sydney. His research has appeared in many scholarly journals and several books. He lives at his farm overlooking the Freycinet Penninsula on the East Coast of Tasmania, with his wife Susan and daughter Eliane.
 

Following the success of Sydney's Olympic Bid in September 1993, Louise commenced working for the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). She became the first member of SOCOG's successful Sponsorship/Marketing team in 1994 and brokered a number of significant corporate partnerships for the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games including Westpac and Ansett.

In 1998, Louise left SOCOG to work for the City of Sydney as Director, Look of the City. In this role, Louise worked for the Council's General Manager Greg Maddock and Wendy McCarthy AO, Chair of the Look of the City Committee. The Look of the City Program and Committee was established by Frank Sartor, then Lord Mayor of Sydney to improve ‘the look of the city in the lead up to the 2000 Games'. In this role, Louise managed a number of special projects for the Council (from lighting, floral displays, banners and hoardings to Christmas decorations), and worked with some of Australia's best designers and architects.

Louise's career took on an arts focus in late 1999 when she became the Director of Development or Fundraising for the Sydney Symphony. Over the next three and a half years, Louise was responsible for managing the fundraising team at the Sydney Symphony and raising over $4 million a year (combination of corporate partnerships and individual giving or philanthropy). In this role, Louise worked closely with the Chairman (Leo Schofield then Helen Lynch AM) and Board of the Sydney Symphony.

Since May 2003, Louise has been the Director of Artsupport Australia, a joint initiative of the Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) and the Australia Council for the Arts to grow cultural philanthropy or giving in Australia. Artsupport Australia is a national program with a staff of four. It was launched by the Prime Minister in August 2003. Co-Chairmen of Artsupport Australia are David Gonski AO and James Strong.

Louise has a Bachelor of Economics and Law from the University of Sydney. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis and watching rugby union, theatre and music, and spending time with her husband.
 

Over the past 15 years, Albany Consulting has worked with a wide range of organisations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors on projects that have drawn on skills and expertise in:

• Corporate and strategic planning
• Policy analysis and development, with particular reference to changes in social policy, welfare reform and the rising interest in social capital and civil society.
• Program and performance evaluation
• Management development
• Organisational review and change
• Social and market research, especially customer satisfaction/community consultation
• Facilitation (management/planning workshops, search conferences etc)

Some research and other publications include:

• Chapter on voluntary associations in Norton, A Latham,M Sturgess,G and Stewart-Weeks,M Social capital: the individual, civil society and the state, Policy Forum 14, Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney
• Contributor to a book (published March 2000) from the Australian Institute of Family Studies on social capital and social policy – chapter titled Trick or treat? Social capital, leadership and the new public policy.
• Undertook research and prepared the report for the Australian contribution to a Commonwealth Foundation project, Civil Society in the New Millennium (Australian partner Professor Mark Lyons, University of Technology, Sydney)

Martin holds a BA (Hons) degree in English from the University of York, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Economics from the University of Canberra and a Masters in Social Science and Policy at the University of NSW exploring the link between place management and social capital.

Martin is a Director of The Ability Australia Foundation. He is a member of the Australasian Evaluation Society and of the Centre for Australian Community Organisations and Management (CACOM) at the University of Technology, Sydney.
 

Mission Australia assists over 220,000 Australians and is the second largest Job Network provider delivering a range of employment and training programs. Operating in a highly competitive area of service delivery that includes national and international for profit organizations, under Patrick's nine year leadership, Mission Australia has enjoyed remarkable growth. He led the development of a new national structure and management team, a new corporate identity and strategic plan as well as national IT, HR, Finance, Marketing and Communications systems.

With a strong commitment to corporate social responsibility, Patrick has taken a key role in the development of partnerships between Mission Australia and corporations such as Westpac, Freehills, Macquarie Bank, Qantas, Sony and Telstra. In 1999, Mission Australia was the winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Business and Community Partnerships for its innovative partnering with Lend Lease.

In 1999 Patrick was appointed Chairperson of the Federal Government's Reference Group on Welfare Reform. The final report “Participation Support for a More Equitable Society” was launched in August 2000 and received wide support from the major political parties and commentators. It is regarded as the blueprint for reform of the social support system in Australia into the 21st Century. The Federal Government commits substantial funding to implement its recommendations with around $1.7 billion allocated in the 2001 budget.

Patrick has been a member of the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership Board since 1998, and is also President of the Social Innovation Forum of the OECD's Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) headquartered in Paris. Patrick has been Deputy Chair of the Welfare to Work Consultative Forum since July 2005 and was appointed as a Commissioner of the Australian Fair Pay Commission in March 2006.

Working in the community sector for the past twenty five years, Patrick has held leadership roles in non profit and government organisations. He served on the Board of Amnesty International (Australia) from 1983 to 1988 and was Chief Executive Officer of the Society of St Vincent de Paul (NSW/ACT) from 1993 to 1996. He currently plays an important role as a social commentator in the media and is frequently requested to address international, national and state conferences.

Patrick has a Master of Arts (Public Policy), a Bachelor of Social Work (Distinction) and a Diploma of Theology and Pastoral Studies. In 1990 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for a study tour of the United States of America, Europe and Canada. He is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD, 2005).

Patrick was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal in 2001 and an EQT CEO Award to recognize Lifetime Achievement for Excellence in the Not For Profit Sector in 2002. In 2003 Patrick received an Order of Australia (AO) for services to the community in the delivery of programs that address social justice, welfare support, health and employment as well as the development of social capital policy initiatives. In 2005 he was selected as one of the 25 True Leaders in Australia by the AFR-BOSS magazine.

Patrick is married to Annette and has two children, Luke and Kate.
 

Prior to coming to CARE he was Assistant Director General at the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) with responsibility for the Papua New Guinea program, AusAID's largest. He was previously responsible for the Corporate Policy and Mekong Branches at AusAID.

Dr Glasser has worked on international energy and environmental issues for the US Department of Energy and on peace and conflict issues at a number of institutions, including the Cornell University Peace Studies Program, the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, and the Arms Control Association in Washington DC. He received his PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University.