Advisory Council
An Advisory Council for Pacific Friends has been established to oversee its administration and direction. The Advisory Council comprises of the following people.
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Ms Wendy McCarthy AO, Chair For 40 years Wendy McCarthy has been a teacher, educator, change agent and public advocate in Australian life. She has worked with government, corporations and community based organisations in education, health, media, conservation and heritage, women’s affairs, public health and waste management and has held national leadership roles in all of these areas. Wendy has represented Australia internationally at meetings in women’s health and leadership, conservation, broadcasting, education and heritage. Since 1995, when she left line management, Wendy has consulted to major corporations on mentoring, managing change and diversity and establishing sustainable corporate community partnerships. |
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Mr Bill Bowtell AO Bill Bowtell is a strategic policy adviser, with particular interest in national and international health policy structures and reform. He trained as a diplomat, with postings in Portugal, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe. As senior adviser to the Australian health minister, Bill Bowtell played a significant role in the introduction of the Medicare health insurance system in 1984. He was an architect of Australia’s successful and well-regarded response to HIV/AIDS. Between 1994 and 1996, Bill Bowtell was senior political adviser to the Prime Minister of Australia. He maintains a close interest in the potential impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the other communicable diseases, on the social, economic and political development of the Asia-Pacific region. Since 2005, Bill was Director of the HIV/AIDS Project at the Lowy Institute for International Policy and, since 2009, the Executive Director of Pacific Friends of the Global Fund. Pacific Friends is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In these positions, he has sought to increase knowledge and awareness of the challenges posed globally, and to the Pacific region, by the three diseases. He has written and broadcast extensively on these subjects and participated in many international and Australian conferences and seminars especially in relation to HIV/AIDS. |
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Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG The Honourable Michael Kirby retired in February 2009 as one of the seven Justices of the High Court of Australia, the nation’s highest court. At the time of his retirement, Michael Kirby was Australia’s longest serving judicial officer. In 1991 Michael Kirby was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal. He has taken an active part in international bodies including the World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, UNDP, ILO, UNODC, UNESCO, OECD and the Commonwealth Secretariat. He presently serves on the UNAIDS Global Reference Panel on AIDS and Human Rights. In November 2008, he was nominated by the Internal Justice Council of the United Nations for election by the General Assembly to be a Judge of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal. In January 2009, he was nominated by the Executive Council as counsellor to the Council of the American Society of International Law. |
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Ms Jennie Lang Jennie Lang is the Vice-President, Advancement at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). In this position Jennie is the Chief Executive of UNSW Foundation and a member of the University’s Executive Team. Prior to this, Jennie was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) at UNSW where she was responsible for: the strategic international direction of UNSW, advancing strategic alliances and global education, international marketing and student recruitment and ensuring UNSW’s position at the forefront of best practice in international education.Jennie has been involved in international education in Australia since 1987 and has focused on developing Australia’s education links with Asia and beyond. She has held senior positions in international education, at UNSW since 1997, and previously was part of the pioneering international education teams at Brisbane CAE and the Queensland University of Technology in the late 1980s. Jennie has Chaired the National Committee of Deputy/Pro-Vice-Chancellors (International) for Universities Australia (2009-2012), Chaired the Group of Eight International Directors Committee (2005-2010), represented UNSW on the Universitas 21 Manager’s Group, and was a Foundation Member of the State of New South Wales Premier’s Council on International Education (2011). Jennie currently serves on the Association of International Education Administrators’ Executive Committee in North America and the Asia-Society Board. |
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Ms Annmaree O’Keeffe AM Annmaree O’Keeffe is a research fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy and also works as a strategic adviser with CRCI in Ottawa, Canada on international issues affecting indigenous peoples. Previously with AusAID from 1986 to 2009, her various positions included Ambassador for HIV/AIDS and Deputy Director General. She has served as Australia’s Ambassador to Nepal and was Minister-Counsellor for Development Assistance in Papua New Guinea. Before joining AusAID, Annmaree worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross as their international editor based initially in Bangkok and then Geneva. Annmaree is a founding board member of the Asia Pacific Business Coalition for AIDS and is a jury member for the University of Queensland’s annual International Communications and Change Award. She has a Masters in Asian Studies from Griffith University and an undergraduate degree from University of Queensland in journalism and economics. |
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Mr Bill Whittaker AM Bill Whittaker has served as the Executive Director of the AIDS Council of New South Wales, the National President of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO), and as the Founding member and executive member of the National Association of People with HIV/AIDS (Australia) (NAPWA). Currently, Bill is a Special Representative for NAPWA, focusing on international and regional policy and planning; treatments access; and Australia’s future strategic response to HIV. Bill was a founding member of the International Council of AIDS Service Organisations (ICASO) and has worked and advised on regional and international HIV/AIDS responses for more than a decade, including advising UNAIDS and WHO on strategic and programmatic responses to HIV. He was a member of the Australian Government negotiating team for the development of the United Nations General Assembly Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) in 2001 and 2006. |
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Hon Charles Chauvel MP The Honerable Charles Chauvel is since 2006 a Member of Parliament in New Zealand. He currently chairs two committees of the Parliament – the Privileges Committee, which deals with contempts of Parliament, and the Regulations Review Committee which is responsible for scrutiny of delegated legislation. He is also a member of the Parliament’s Commerce Committee, and its ad hoc Committee on the Review of Climate Change Legislation. He speaks for the Labour Party as its spokesperson on Climate Change, Energy and Resources, and its Associate Spokesperson on Justice and on Commerce. In November 2007, he became Chairperson of the Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee, and in early 2008 was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney-General roles in which he served until the 2008 New Zealand general election. |
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Lady Roslyn Morauta Roslyn Morauta has lived and worked in Papua New Guinea since 1982. Prior to that, she worked in publishing in England, taught Politics at the University of Ghana, the Australian National University and Queensland University, and worked as a research officer in the Defence Department in Canberra and for the Australian Social Welfare Commission. In Papua New Guinea she has worked for the National Planning Office and the Department of Finance and Treasury (through the United Nations Development Programme), undertaken consultancy management with Coopers & Lybrand, and now acts as manager of Morauta family business interests. Roslyn is Chair of the Papua New Guinea Country Coordinating Mechanism of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and the PNG Alliance of Civil Society Organisations Against HIV/AIDS. Other board and committee memberships include the PNG National AIDS Council, the Asia-Pacific Leadership Forum on HIV/AIDS, Anglicare (PNG) and the PNG Maritime College Board. |
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Mr Murray Proctor Murray Proctor was Australian Ambassador for HIV/AIDS from December 2007 to October 2012. The role of HIV/AIDS Ambassador encourages political, business and community leaders in the Asian Pacific region to provide the direction and support needed to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS and reduce the suffering it causes. With more than 25 years experience in aid and development, Murray has made a great contribution to furthering cooperation with Australia’s regional partners in advancing the fight against HIV/AIDS. Murray was previously Deputy Director General of the Program Enabling Division, Deputy Director General of AusAID’s Asia Division, and before that managed the AusAID Office of Review and Evaluation and Australia’s aid program to PNG. He worked from 1999 to 2001 at the World Bank on East Timor reconstruction and public sector reform. He holds degrees in Psychology and Economics from the University of Queensland and Australian National University respectively. |
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Ms Margaret Hudson Margaret Hudson is Director Advancement Services, UNSW Foundation. She has a strong background in the education and events industries. As General Manager Business Relations with the APEC Australia Taskforce she was responsible for organisation of the Business Summit, sponsorship and business engagement. Margaret has also held senior positions with IDP Education Australia and the Australian Tourist Commission (now known as Tourism Australia). She recently completed a contract role with UNSW International. She is an alumni of UNSW having completed an Executive MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management. |
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Pacific Friends of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a high-level advocacy organisation which seeks to mobilise regional awareness of the serious threat posed by HIV & AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to societies and economies in the Pacific. In pursuing its goals Pacific Friends has a specific interest in highlighting the need to protect the rights of women and children in the Pacific.
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