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Forum 5 - Building our City for the Future

Date: Wednesday 11th Jul 2007
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre University of Melbourne, Swanston St Carlton

What happened at this forum?
About 100 participants attended the fifth Future Melbourne Forum. The panel explored the city in which we wish to live that helps all citizens enjoy better lives, uses resources more effectively, enables us to achieve our goals for cultural, economic and social diversity and sustainability. How is this city different and how do we initiate the different future to flourish? The move to sustainable buildings, as well as what development means for social capital and planning the health of our future city, was also discussed.

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Speakers
Professor Tom Kvan Currently Dean of the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Thomas Kvan holds degrees from Open University (England), Cambridge and UCLA. He is the author of over 100 publications on design and design management. He has practiced in architecture in Africa, Europe, Hong Kong, assisted many national and international organizations on digital and management issues in design, and has been a member of the Board of Directors in digital design and facility management associations worldwide. Tom serves on the boards of several journals and professional organizations and was named a CAADRIA Fellow in 2005 in recognition of his efforts in supporting CAAD research.

Professor Rob Moodie
Professor Moodie is anaugural Chair of Global Health at the Nossal Institute for Global Health at the University of Melbourne. He is Chair of the Premier's Drug Prevention Council and is Vice-President of the International Union of Helath Promotion and Education. Between 1998 and 2007 he was the CEO of VicHealth? . He has an interest in the control of AIDS globally and was the inaugural director of country support for the UN program on AIDS in Geneva. He is currently on the technical advisory panel to teh Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's HIV prevention program in India. He is also a member of the Asia Pacific Leadership Forum on HIV/AIDS. Rob is co-editor of three books, including Hands on Health Promotion.

Carolyn Parker
Carolyn Parker is Managing Director of the Kador Group, based in Melbourne. Her role encompasses policy objectives and strategy; finance and accounting practices; corporate governance and identification of new investment opportunities. Carolyn has gradually re-shaped the portfolio and increased the focus on acquisitions of larger investments, including building refurbishment often incorporating ESD initiatives.

Elizabeth Proust
Currently a company director, Elizabeth is on the board of Perpetual, has joined the Risk, Nominations and Remuneration Committees of Sinclair Knight Merz and is a mentor at Merryck & Co. Prior to joining ANZ where, among others, she held the position of Group General Manager Corporate Affairs and Human Resources; Ms Proust was Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Victoria. Other positions she has held include Chief Executive Officer of the Melbourne City Council and Deputy Director-General of the Department of Industry, Technology and Resources. Ms Proust is Chairman of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, member of the National Breast Cancer Foundation Board of Trustees and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Moderator - Peter Mares
Peter Mares presents the weekly discussion program 'The National Interest' on ABC Radio National (Sundays at noon) and is an adjunct research fellow at the Institute of Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology, where he writes on issues of migration, borders and human movement. Peter has been a journalist and broadcaster with the ABC for more than twenty years. From 1987 to 2002 he specialised in reporting Asian and Pacific affairs, including two years as a foreign correspondent based in Vietnam. In 2001 he published 'Borderline' (UNSW Press), a detailed critique of Australia's policies towards refugees and asylum seekers that won numerous awards. Peter is a member of the advisory committee of the 2007 Adelaide Festival of Ideas, and has been a judge in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (2007 and 2004) and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Human Rights Awards (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007).

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