Guest Speakers

Professor Kerry Cox is Vice-Chancellor of Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Kerry has published extensively in the international literature on autoimmune disease and the mechanisms of immunological self-tolerance. His memberships include the National Council on Environmental Education in Australia, the Business-Higher Education Round Table, the Australian Society for Microbiology (former President), the Australasian Society for Immunology, the Victorian Education Research Network and the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association (President).

Associate Professor Pierre Horwitz is currently the Director of the Consortium for Health and Ecology at Edith Cowan University. He has a particular interest in the relationships between human health and the health of their surrounding ecosystems. He has published 6 monographs and over 70 papers, edited several proceedings volumes and written numerous reports for government and industry in the last twenty years. Dr Horwitz is currently a Co-editor of the international journal EcoHealth, published by Springer.
 

Professor Charles Hopkins is the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Teacher Education Towards Sustainability at York University, Toronto. He is also a United Nations University (UNU) Chair on Education for Sustainable Development and an advisor to both UNESCO and UNU regarding the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Professor Hopkins has developed, and continues to coordinate, an international network of forty teacher education institutions from thirty-eight countries collaboratively working upon the reorientation of teacher education to address the issues inherent in sustainable development.

Professor Sohail Inayatullah, a political scientist, is Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies), Visiting Academic/Research Associate at Queensland University of Technology and adjunct at several other universities in the world. He is on the International Advisory Council of the World Futures Society and is co-editor of the Journal of Futures Studies and author of more than 300 articles of various kinds. His most recent book is Educational Futures, forthcoming in 2006.

 

Mr Joseph Northover is a Nyoongar elder and a traditional custodian of the Collie area, in the South West Eco-Region near Bunbury. He is a Board Member of Edith Cowan University’s South West Campus and has contributed to the publication of a wide variety of articles, books and videos documenting Noongar relationship with the land. He is an outstanding public speaker and has a long association with the Australian Association of Environmental Education’s South West Chapter.

 

Molly Harriss Olson is a Director of Eco Futures Pty Ltd, an Australian-based international policy firm working on building sustainable strategies with business, government and civic leaders. Ms Olson is the Convenor of the national Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable Development, Chair of the Editorial Board of Ecos Magazine (CSIRO Publishers), and an internationally recognised leader on sustainability.

 

Paul J Perkins AO, adjunct professor at the Australian National University, is a national leader in public sector utility reform (water, wastewater, energy & health services) and the emerging sustainable development movement. He is presently chairman of the new Adelaide based Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Environmental Remediation (CRC CARE), a member of the Australian Government’s Business Roundtable on Sustainable Development, Chairman of the National Environmental Education Council and Chairman of the Barton Group, a national CEO alliance responsible for leading implementation of the Environment Industry Development Action Agenda & project director of their national Water industry Development Roadmap study. He is a Companion of the Australian Institution of Engineers, and a Life Member of Environment Business Australia.

Associate Professor Daniella Tilbury is Director of ARIES (Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability) at Macquarie University, and has a long and distinguished career in Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability. She has participated in many national and international committees and panels, including the IUCN and the OECD. She has a wide variety of publications, including the book Tilbury, D. and Goldstein W. (2003) Engaging People in Sustainability.

 

Ms Jo Vallentine a mother, a Quaker, a teacher, an activist. West Australian born and educated, Jo has travelled and worked in various parts of the world.  In 1984 she was elected to the Australian Senate on the single issue of nuclear disarmament. She was re-elected in 1987 and 1990 on an ever-widening platform, which finally included the comprehensive agenda of the newly formed party  “The Greens W.A.” Since resigning from the Senate in 1992, Jo has worked with community groups on peace, environment, and  human rights issues. She is an outstanding public speaker and facilitator, and has contributed towards the publication of a wide variety of books, articles, videos and publications.
 

Peter Woods has executive responsibility in the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage for developing and implementing national policy on education for sustainability. He chaired the National Reference Group established to oversee the development of the Australian Government's National Action Plan for Environmental Education. He currently chairs the National Environmental Education Network, comprising representatives from State and Territory education and environment agencies. Peter also represents the Australian Government on the Board of Trustees of the Japanese Government's Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. Peter has extensive experience in public policy and community consultation and has worked previously in a variety of areas in the Australian Government.