SUPERVISORY BOARD

James Murray (Chair) Email: james(at)jubileeaustralia.org
Anne Lanyon
Jacqueline Woodman
Julia Roy
Li Leong


STAFF

Adele Webb, National Coordinator
Email: adele(at)jubileeaustralia.org

Adele has been working with Jubilee Australia since 2006. After initially training as a lawyer in Sydney, Adele completed further study in economics, anthropology and development through the University of South Africa. She has spent time living and volunteering in South Africa and Malawi, and has just recently returned from two months working with local NGOs in Manila. At Jubilee, Adele is particularly interested in critically examining the impacts of 'free market' economic policy and the prioritising of debt repayments on efforts to reduce poverty and strengthen the economies in the two-thirds world.


Luke Fletcher, Policy Coordinator
Email: luke(at)jubileeaustralia.org

Luke has been involved with Jubilee Australia for the past five years, including as National Coordinator from 2005-2007. From 2007-2009, Luke was a Rotary World Peace Fellow, where he completed a masters in Political Science and International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; as part of this fellowship Luke interned at the London-based NGO Global Witness in the summer of 2008. In recent times Luke’s work at Jubilee has focused, firstly, on cataloguing the Australian Government’s support of mining and petroleum projects through it’s export credit agency, EFIC. He has also been involved in pushing for reforms of the international financial sector post-GFC, including, among other things, the current campaign for a Financial Transactions (aka ‘Robin Hood’) Tax.



VOLUNTEERS
Scott Hickie, Stephanie Lusby, Edwyn Shiell, Joffre Balce, Nic Melasis, Angela Ford

INTERNS
Semester 1, 2010
Jodie Lieffring
Nic Nelson
Salima Yeung

ACADEMIC ADVISORS

Professor Ross Buckley

Ross Buckley is the Professor of International Finance Law at the University of New South Wales, founding Series Editor of the Global Trade Law Series, Kluwer Law International of The Hague and Series Co-Editor of Kluwer’s International Banking and Finance Law Series. His work focuses on ways to improve the regulation and resilience of national financial systems and the global financial system. He has consulted to government departments in Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the U.S. and to banks and finance houses in Australia and the U.K. He was recently invited to address a forum of the European Parliament examining the financial transactions tax proposal.

Professor John Langmore

John Langmore is a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, and a visiting fellow at the University of New England. He is also the president of the United Nations Association of Australia and an Australian board member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.







Kate Macdonald

Kate Macdonald is a Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research examines emerging systems of global economic governance, with a particular focus on social, labour and human rights governance arrangements and their implications for developing countries. Before taking up her current job in Melbourne she held positions at London School of Economics, Australian National University and Oxford University . She has carried out research and consultancy work for a range of development and human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, ActionAid and the UK ’s Corporate Responsibility Coalition.  



Dr James Arvanitakis

Dr James Arvanitakis is a lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Western Sydney. James has worked as a human rights activist throughout the Pacific, Indonesia and Europe with organisations including Aid/Watch and Oxfam. His latest book was released last year and which gave rise to 'socio-logic' on FBI Radio (94.5fm). James has a regular blog at www.jamesarvanitakis.net.