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| Tania Barton, Events Manager | |
Prior to working at Per Capita, Tania ran her own consultancy business for 11 years, working with industry groups, corporations and government agencies. She specialised in the area of training, recruitment, independent facilitation and event management, working in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. In her current role with Per Capita, Tania manages a range of events including policy lunches, seminars and the annual Policy Exchange conference. Tania holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Tasmania.
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| Jack Fuller, Project Leader | |
Jack has worked as a neuroscience tutor at Trinity College, Melbourne, where he co-founded the Melbourne Cognitive Science Forum. Before joining Per Capita he led a group contributing to Melbourne City Council’s ‘Future Melbourne’ plan, and travelled to Poland as an Australian Youth Delegate to the UN climate negotiations. He has lived and worked in Timor Leste, in Germany, and at the Centre for Sustainability Leadership in Melbourne. Jack has a Bachelor of Science (Neuroscience) from the University of Melbourne, and was awarded the 2009 Victorian Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford.
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| Katherine Gregory, Project Leader | |
Katherine joins Per Capita as a project manager of the ‘Philosophy of Tax’ research stream. She recently returned to Australia after several years in the UK, where she worked with the National Security Commission at the UK’s leading policy think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research. Prior to this, Katherine was a political risk analyst for private security firm Red 24, and a financial journalist for a European-based business publication. Katherine completed her Masters in International Relations from the University of NSW in 2005, and a BA in Media and Communications from Sydney University in 2004. Throughout her studies, Katherine worked as an intern for a range of local and metropolitan papers in Sydney as well as the NGO Aid/Watch. In 2006, whilst travelling through Eastern Europe and the Balkans, Katherine was also a freelance travel writer for the Radar section of the Sydney Morning Herald.
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| David Hetherington, Executive Director | |
David is the founding Executive Director of Per Capita. David has previously worked at the UK's Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), with L.E.K. Consulting in Sydney, Munich and Auckland, focusing on the natural resources, airports, and financial services sectors, and at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Commerce Centre, where he advised businesses preparing for the Olympic Games. He holds a BA with First Class Honours from UNSW and an MPA with Distinction from the London School of Economics where he won the George W. Jones Prize for Academic Achievement.
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| Tim Soutphommasane, Senior Project Leader | |
Tim joins Per Capita after returning from the UK, where he completed his studies and worked as a journalist. A political theorist by training, he is the author of Reclaiming Patriotism: Nation-Building for Australian Progressives (2009) and worked as a political staffer for then-NSW premier Bob Carr and for then-federal opposition leader Kevin Rudd during the election campaign of 2007. His experience in journalism includes writing leaders for The Guardian and The Financial Times, and serving as the editor in chief of The Oxonian Review of Books. Tim writes a regular column for The Weekend Australian, and is also a research fellow at Monash University’s National Centre for Australian Studies. He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar, and is a first-class honours graduate of the University of Sydney.
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