Miriam Lyons is the Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Development. Formerly the Policy Coordinator of New Matilda, Miriam has a history of bringing policy ideas to new audiences, as the former director of the Interface Festival of Ideas in Sydney, and the Ideas Program for the Straight out of Brisbane Festival. Miriam has also worked as a freelance writer and researcher and as a media development consultant in East Timor. She is on the advisory committee of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies at UTS and the steering committee of Project Australia. Miriam was a delegate to the 2020 Summit and was profiled in the Thinkers’ category of The Australian’s Emerging Leaders series and as a ‘Woman Shaping Australia’ in Madison Magazine. She is an occasional guest on the ABC show QandA. She is currently co-editing the book ‘More than Luck: Ideas Australia needs now’ with Mark Davis.
View Miriam’s recent work here.
Antoinette Abboud is the Public Affairs Manager at the Centre for Policy Development. Her research interests are broad and often connect to her extensive community advocacy and work in the not-for-profit sector. She has been involved in refugee and Indigenous Australian rights, environmental and anti-war campaigns, created and run Australia’s first ever accredited hip hop program in Redfern and formerly worked at Union Aid Abroad, the humanitarian aid arm of the trade union movement. When not inside the think tank, Antoinette teaches research and writing skills at Sydney Institute TAFE.
Contact: antoinette.abboud(at)cpd.org.au*
Marian Spencer is the Administrator for The Centre for Policy Development. Marian worked in London as the membership secretary for The Women’s Environment Network and then as the administrator for The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers. She moved to Sydney in 1998 and worked as the NSW Manager for The Wilderness Society. After leaving full time work to have a family Marian worked part time as a community educator with TEC’s Safer Solution Campaign before joining CPD.
Contact: marian.spencer(at)cpd.org.au*
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