Sir Ian Turbott Lecture Series

The 2007 Sir Ian Turbott Lecture was held on 17th October 2007at Twin Creeks Golf and Country Club.

This years lecture was presented by Dr Peter Ellyard who discussed pathways to sustainable prosperity: mindsets and strategies for future makers.

Dr Peter Ellyard is a futurist and strategist who lives in Melbourne . Peter is a graduate of Sydney University (BSc) and of Cornell University (MS, Ph.D )

He is currently Chairman of the Preferred Futures institute and the Preferred Futures Group, which he founded in 1991 . He also chairs the Sustainable Prosperity Foundation and two start up environmental companies.

Peter is a former Executive Director for the Australian Commission for the Future. He held CEO positions in a number of public sector organizations over 15 years including two associated with environment and planning, and one with industry and technology, and was also Chief of Staff of the Office of Environment Ministers in Canberra for 3 years. He is Adjunct Professor of Intergenerational Strategies at the University of Queensland , and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators, the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand ,and the Australian Institute of Management. He has been a Senior Adviser to the United Nations system for more than 30 years including to the 1992 Earth Summit where he was a senior advisor on both the climate change and the biodiversity conventions. In this he was the only Australian and one of only 20 globally. In his other work for the UN system he has been a senior consultant to the UNEP ,the UNDP and UNESCO. Peter is a Director of Green Cross. He is the author of the best selling book Ideas for the New Millennium (1998,2001)

To view a copy of Peter's presentation please click here.

To view information on past lectures please click here.

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