May Miller-Dawkins is a researcher, advocate and coalition-builder with over twenty years experience working to support community-led change and ensure government and corporate accountability.
May was Director – Governance and Transparency at The B Team in New York, where she created coalitions between civil society and business to advocate for company ownership transparency, responsible tax practice and protection of civic rights. She was previously the inaugural head of research for Oxfam Australia where she supported applied research efforts across the Asia Pacific, developed new forms of academic-practitioner collaboration, and led Oxfam International’s 12 country study of the human impacts of the global financial crisis which influenced government and international financial institution responses. She currently advises and supports the Yuwaya Ngarra-li partnership between the Dharriwaa Elders Group in Walgett NSW and the University of New South Wales, and serves as a civil society member of the Australian Open Government Forum. She has a BA (First Class Honours – Politics and International Relations) and LLB from UNSW and an LLM (Legal Theory) from NYU where she was a Dean’s Graduate Award Scholar.
