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In his official professional life, Cameron serves as CEO of the International Young Professionals Foundation, an international NGO he founded with four other Australian young professionals in October 2001. From 2005 to 2008, Cameron will be working to build the IYPF in to a strong, vibrant and self sufficient NGO that informs, inspires and equips young professionals to be effective sustainability and social change agents. In his IYPF role, Cameron was co-author of a National Youth Affairs Research Scheme report on young Australians as agents of change for more sustainable consumption along with John Fien and Matthew Bentley. Cameron lead the design and implementation of the capacity building program developed as part of this research, running all the train the trainer and youth workshops in pilot communities and coordinating evaluation. Since the publication of the NYARS report in early 2005, Cameron has created an Australian Working Group that works with IYPF and RMIT University on progressing the recommendations of the report and implementing a revised version of the community capacity building program. This new initiative is called OTHERWISE. It is being futher refined and evaluated through an action research process as part of an Australian Research Council funded research project with RMIT. Cameron is leading the community level engagement and implementation processes, including facilitating train-the-trainer workshops and workhops with young Australians. Cameron is also an action partner of the Oxfam International Youth Partnerships, having attended the first IYP in Sydney in 2000. At the 2004 OIYP Cameron was one the facilitators of the Labour and Employment group - due in part to his experience and work in the areas of youth enterprise and fair trade. Cameron is a believer in youth enterprise as a vehicle for liberation and social transfromation. He is a facilitator of the YES-Australia Country Network . Cameron used to be a member and facilitator of a youth enterprise development initiative in Brisbane called YES!BE!. He ran the Youth Employment segment of the "Young People Taking the Lead on Social Change" conference held in March 2005 in Adelaide. At the end of 2003, Cameron found himself becoming the Development Coordinator of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ). In this role, Cameron worked as the sole FTAANZ employee, liaising with fair trade businesses and organisations in Australia and New Zealand, as well as interested individuals and NGOs, to get fairly traded products to ANZ markets, educate consumers, and undertake capacity building activities with producers in developing nations. In May 2005, Cameron changed roles as the organisation grew, established a new Fairtrade Labelling arm, and employed 4 new staff. From May 2005 until July 2007, he was the Fairtrade Certification Analyst for Australia and New Zealand. Cameron is now Certification & Labelling Manager for FLANZ, responsible for Fairtrade Certification matters in ANZ Having spent 4 years working in this field, Cameron is very passionate about the ability of fair trade to assist disadvantaged families and communities in the Majority world (i.e. developing countries) gain greater control over the lives, meet their survival and growth needs, and break out of cycles of poverty. Fair trade is a powerful vehicle for achieving sustainability, funded by small investments by those more than capable of doing so - us ravenous consumers in our towers of privilege in 'the West'. Through involvment with the fair trade movement, Cameron has joined a new research centre - the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development - located within the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University. His association with the CGKD reflects a shifting of Cameron's interests from youth enterprise to trade, politics and development. With the above background and experience, Cameron was a member of the ad hoc international taskforce that wrote the 'Youth and the Millennium Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities for Implementation' report. Interests: Building viable, sustainable enterprises that contribute to a better world for all Achieving International Sustainable & Youth Development Social Development & Innovation Community Based Learning Youth Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Development & Livelihoods Youth Empowerment & Community Participation Strategies Futures and Global Governance Action Research and Evaluation DIY and the punk aesthetic Trade, Economics, Politics, Power and Development Currently on high rotation in my stereo: NIN - The Fragile The Cult - The Cult Silversun Pickups - Carnavas Currently reading: No Logo by Naomi Klein Not Happy, John by Margo Kingston In my reading queue: All the books written by Chuck Palahniuk Books and Graphic Novels by Neil Gaiman Lean Thinking & Lean Solutions, both by Womack Darkwar Series by Raymond E Feist Movies I have to see A Scanner Darkly by Richard Linklater (based on Phillip K Dick novel) Munich Clerks II (yay for Kevin Smith) Lords of War
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