We are delighted to welcome Ms Molly Harriss Olson to the
Board of Australia21.
Molly is an internationally recognised leader in global
sustainability. Her experience spans over 30 years and her approach to
global sustainability encompasses leadership and economic redesign, green
building innovation, fair-trade, population, environment and development
issues.
Molly was the sustainability expert for the Opening Plenary
of the World Economic Forum's 2000 meeting in Davos. She was the Chair of King
Carl Gustaf's Business Leadership and the Environmental Symposium, Stockholm,
Sweden, has given lectures at the Harvard Kennedy School and was the Myerhoff
Visiting Scholar for Global Civic Responsibility, Goucher College, Baltimore.
Her work in the White House (as the Founding Executive
Director of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development) enabled her to
bring Al Gore to Australia for his first visit in 2003 as keynote speaker at
the National Business Leaders Forum.
Now based in Australia, she is the Chair of the Board of Fairtrade
International, which is a 4.9 Billion Euro annual turnover of products sold in
120 countries; and she sits on a number of environmental boards. She is the
founder and convenor of the National Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable
Development. She is a co-founder and director of EcoFutures, an
Australian-based international policy firm working on building sustainable
strategies with business, government and civic leaders; and co-founder of Earthmark.
We look forward to working with Molly in the coming years
when sustainability is likely to become even more critical for the future of
Australia and the world.
More information on other members of the Board of
Australia21 is available here.
