Advisory Panel
Founder and Executive Producer
of Ci2011
Tania de Jong AM, Founder and
CEO Creative Universe
Phone: +61 (0)3 8679 6000 or tania@creativeuniverse.com.au
Ambassadors Creative Innovation 2011
- Hugh Morgan AC – Ambassador
- Professor Allan Fels AO – Ambassador
- Sir Gus Nossal AC – Ambassador
Thought Leaders Advisory Panel

- Rufus Black – Ethicist, Master Ormond College, University of Melbourne
- Stefan Cassomenos – One of Australia’s leading young pianists, conductors & composers
- Leo D’Angelo Fisher – Senior Writer, Business Review Weekly
- Mark Dempsey SC – SC/Barrister (NSW)
- Rod Glover – Policy Consultant
- Stephen Grant – CEO of Asia Pacific Business Coalition on Aids, Chairman Alfred Health
- Professor Roy Green – Dean, Faculty of Business, University of Technology Sydney
- Brad Howarth – Writer and speaker, co-author ‘A Faster Future’
- Professor Sarah Hosking – Director, National Vision Research Institute Australia
- Andrew Jaspan – Founder and CEO, The Conversation
- Leon Kempler – Chair, Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce
- Janine Kirk AM – Partner Ernst & Young, Chair Tourism Victoria
- Charles Kovess – Australia’s passion provocateur and leading speaker
- Peter Kronborg – Deputy Chair Creativity Australia, Director Athenaeum Foundation, Councillor Australian Institute of Company Directors, Emeritus Councillor Royal Flying Doctor Service, Strategic Advisor Creative
Innovation 2012, Director Elsinore Pty Ltd
- Peter Lamell – CEO Silcar
- Denis Moriarty – Co-Founder and Group Managing Director, Our Community
- Ric Oldham – General Manager VisionStream – Leighton Telecommunication Group
- Michael Rennie - Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Professor Peter Rathjen - Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania
- Katrina Reynen – Director, Global Education Cisco
- Carol Schwartz AM – Director of TheTrawalla Foundation
- Clive Scott – General Manager, Sofitel Melbourne On Collins
- Adam Simpson – Managing Partner, Simpsons Lawyers
- Alistair Urquhart – Director Affairs of State
- Steve Vamos - President Society of Knowledge Economics, Director Telstra
- Alison Watkins – CEO Graincorp, Director ANZ
Ci2011 Innovation Leaders Scholarships Selection Panel
Tania de Jong AM – Founder Creative Universe & Creativity Australia, Executive Producer Creative Innovation Global
Dr Elizabeth Finkel – Science journalist and Author
Janine Kirk AM – Partner, Ernst & Young
Peter Kronborg – Deputy Chair Creativity Australia, Director Kronborg Leadership
Denis Moriarty – Co-Founder & Group Managing Director, Our Community
James Newman – Publishing Director, Hardie Grant
Jeremy Nichols – Partner, Mettle & Head of Consulting at Chandler Macleod