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Members Lunch with Ralph Ashton
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February 28, 2018 @ 11:30 pm - March 1, 2018 @ 1:00 am
Ralph Ashton, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Australian Futures Project
Ralph Ashton has a track record of conceiving, building, and leading non-partisan initiatives to tackle cross-sectoral challenges. Before co-founding the Australian Futures Project in 2012, Ralph spent a decade leading international public policy initiatives, working closely on every continent with governments, the United Nations, World Bank, business, academia, and non-profits. This included coordinating WWF’s global response to the Indian Ocean earthquakes and tsunami, and convening and chairing the multi-disciplinary international Terrestrial Carbon Group. With a background in corporate law and investment banking, Ralph has also held visiting positions at Columbia University and the Australian National University.
The team at Australian Futures Project, stimulate and support leaders, experts, and the community to identify, test, and build initiatives to create the Australia we want tomorrow, today.
They are working with government, business, media, experts, and the public, to deliver on their mission to improve how Australia creates its future.
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