Integrity 20 speakers and performers

United Kingdom | A.C. Grayling is the Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays.

Australia | Alex Hannant is Co-director of the Yunus Centre, Griffith University. He has experience in impact investment, innovation process, strategy, program design and development, partnering and collective action approaches.

Australia | Alex Mathieson is the Programs Director for Oxfam Australia, leading an Australian and international team to deliver positive impact and lasting change in communities around the world. Joining Oxfam in Great Britain as a volunteer in 1989, Alex has 25 years of experience in long-term development and humanitarian assistance, including leading programs in Vanuatu, the Philippines, Eastern Europe and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Australia | Andrew MacLeod is the Former Managing Director, Good Super Australia, a Non Executive Director for New York based Cornerstone Capital and a Senior Adviser to Homestrings plc in London.

United States | Andrew Revkin is Founder and Editor, Dot Earth - the award winning environmental blog for the Op-Ed section of The New York Times - Senior Fellow, Pace University. Andrew has been writing about science and the environment for more than three decades.

Russia | Dr. Anna Neistat leads Amnesty International’s global research by setting the research agenda and ensuring consistently high standards for research strategy, methodology and quality. She provides political and human rights analysis and expert advice on human rights to the International Secretariat and the movement as a whole, and represents Amnesty International in major internal and external fora.

Australia | Dr Anne Summers AO is a best-selling author, journalist and thoughtleader with a long career in politics, the media, business and the nongovernment sector in Australia, Europe and the United States.

United States | Bruce is the author of 12 books - including the New York Times best seller Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World - as well as hundred of articles, essays, and academic papers.

Australia-United Kingdom | Carly Nyst is Legal Director of Privacy International, a London-based NGO dedicated to fighting unlawful surveillance and promoting the right to privacy around the world.

Australia | Cathy is a reporter and producer for Radio National Breakfast based in Brisbane. She is a journalist with more than 20 years experience in radio reporting, presenting and documentary making.

United States | Charles Lewis is a former ABC News and CBS News 60 Minutes producer. He founded the award-winning, nonprofit Center for Public Integrity (1989) and its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (1997), the first global network of premier investigative reporters to develop and publish online multimedia exposés across borders.

Australia | Professor Charles Sampford is Griffith University’s foundation dean and professor of law and research professor in ethics. He is director of the Institute of Ethics, Governance and Law.

Australia | Clare Press is a journalist, podcaster and ethical fashion activist. She is the author of Wardrobe Crisis, named one of The Age’s Best Books of 2016. In 2018, she was named Vogue Australia’s sustainability editor.

Australia | Before his career in media, Damien worked as a lawyer. Since jumping into journalism, he has won numerous awards, including the UN Media Peace Prize for Radio, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Radio Award and the Victoria Law Foundation Legal Journalist of the Year Award.

United States | David is a writer, scientist, and sound recordist. His studies show the many ways that life is interconnected. His first book, The Forest Unseen, was finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction and received numerous other honors.

Australia | Deline hails from Gugu Yalanji country in the Daintree rainforest. Her career started at the age of 17 with the Briscoe Sisters in Cairns. She soon established herself as one of Australia’s finest Indigenous female singers.

Australia | Dr Elise Stephenson is an award-winning researcher, strategist and entrepreneur and regular contributor to TV, radio and various publications. Elise has led major programs for Australia’s largest public diplomacy initiative, Australia Now.

Australia | Ellen is a Senior Fellow with the 3A Institute, founded by Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell within the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Australian National University. Despite having begun her studies in law and english literature, Ellen's career has always been in technology, spanning policy, standards and engineering.

Australia | Emma Donovan is a passionate singer, songwriter and collaborative vocal artist whose musical expression is a fusion of roots, reggae and soul.

Australia | Eric is an Indigenous interdisciplinary artist is from the Ngiyampaa, Yuin, Gumbangirri and Bundjalung people of NSW.

Zimbabwe | Evan Mawarire is a Zimbabwean clergyman who founded the 2016 #ThisFlag citizen’s Movement that challenges corruption and injustice in Zimbabwe. As a result of his viral facebook videos, this grassroots movement prompted strikes and protests against the Zimbabwean government.

Australia | Fiona researches, speaks and consults on a range of topics including the neuroscience of human-human and human-technology interaction, neurogenesis, and leadership. She augmented early degrees in Psychology and Anthropology with a PhD that combines cognitive neuroscience and complex systems engineering in order to investigate the patterns she saw in flourishing systems and capable leaders.

Australia | Professor Frank Brennan was the founding director of Uniya, the Australian Jesuit Social Justice Centre. He is a board member of St Vincent's Health Australia and Jesuit Social Services. He is presently Advocate in Residence for Catholic Health Australia, Catholic Social Services Australia and the St Vincent de Paul Society. He is an author of several books on Aboriginal issues, civil liberties, asylum and religion.

Australia | Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs is the president of the Australian Human rights Commission, with a five year appointment. She was dean of the Faculty of Law and Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney from 2007-12 and director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law from 2005-7. She is a former barrister and a governor of the College of Law.

Australia | Graeme Samuel AC is a Professorial Fellow in Monash University’s Business School and School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine. Graeme has held a number of roles in public life including former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Australia | Hanifa Deen is a Melbourne-based award -winning author and social commentator of Pakistani-Muslim ancestry who writes narrative non-fiction.

Australia | Ingrid Burkett is Co-director of the Yunus Centre, Griffith University. She is a social designer, designing processes, products and knowledge that deepen social impact and facilitate social innovation.

United States | James Henry is author of the acclaimed investigative economics book The Blood Bankers, and his articles and citations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, The Conference Board, The Washington Post, Harpers, Fortune, Jornal do Brasil, The Manila Chronicle, La Nacion, and many others.

United States | Jean an award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer, commentator and expert on North Korea who serves as director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.

United Kingdom | Julian Baggini is the author, co-author or editor of over 20 books including A Short History of Truth, Freedom Regained, The Ego Trick, The Edge of Reason and most recently How The World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy.

Australia | Kerry O’Brien is one of Australia’s most respected journalists, with six Walkley awards including the Gold Walkley and the Walkley for Outstanding Leadership in journalism. In a career spanning over fifty years, Kerry has worked for newspapers, television and a wire service, and as a foreign correspondent.

Australia | Kev Carmody grew up on a ‘hard tack goanna block’ in the Darling Downs area of South Eastern Queensland with his family: drovers and stockmen who lived largely off the land, growing vegetables near the house and hunting. From the age of four, he and his brother interacted and worked with the stockmen, drovers, fencers, ring-barkers, shearers and the backcountry itinerant workers where he lived. It was around the stock and droving campfires that he learned his love for storytelling and music.

Australia | Kylie Lang is an award-winning journalist and presenter. As Associate Editor of The Courier Mail, Queensland’s metropolitan daily newspaper, she specialises in social issues reporting, delivering front-page exclusives and long-form features.

Australia | Leigh Sales is one of Australia’s most respected journalists. As the anchor of the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 7.30, she has interviewed dozens of world leaders and celebrities. Leigh is the winner of two Walkley Awards; the author of the books Detainee 002 and On Doubt; and the co-host of a popular podcast called Chat 10, Looks 3 with Annabel Crabb.

Australia | Lior is one of Australia’s most successful singer-songwriters, renowned for his beautiful voice and songs that radiate truth and sincerity. Lior burst on to the Australian music scene in 2005 with his stunning debut album - Autumn Flow.

Australia | Luke Stegemann is a writer, editor and Hispanist based in south-east Queensland. He has held senior positions in media, publishing and higher education in Australia, Europe and Asia, including 15 years in Spain.

Myanmar | Dr Ma Thida is a Burmese surgeon, human rights activist and writer, known as a leading intellectual whose writings deal primarily with her country's political situation. She has published nine books in Burmese and English, including two fictional works and a prison memoir.

New Zealand | Marilyn is a renowned feminist, political economist, and author. Professor of Public Policy at AUT University in New Zealand, Marilyn’s seminal text Counting for Nothing/If Women Counted (University of Toronto Press) was the subject of award winning documentary Who’s Counting – Marilyn Waring on sex, lies and global economics.

Australia | Matt is a husband, dad, pop culture nerd, moral philosopher and ethicist. Matt is a Fellow at the Ethics Centre and the resident philosopher for the kids ethics podcast Short & Curly.

Australia | Michael Leunig is a Cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet. He was declared an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1999. His commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans more than forty years and has often explored the idea of an innocent and sacred personal world.

Australia | Dr Mike Todorovic is a Senior Lecturer of Anatomy & Physiology within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Griffith University. He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence and has a passion for science communication.

Australia | Ms Saffaa is an artist, activist, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney.

South Africa | Navi is a distinguished expert on international criminal law and human rights. She served as the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations from 2008 to 2014.

Australia | Nick Enfield is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, head of the Post-Truth Initiative, and director of the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC). His work on language and human sociality is based on extensive fieldwork in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Laos. Among his more recent books are Relationship Thinking (2013), The Utility of Meaning (2015), and How We Talk (2017).

Australia | Professor Nigel McMillan is an infectious diseases expert, named by the Australian Science Media Centre as one of Australia’s most prominent voices of the COVID-19 pandemic. He is an internationally recognised expert in the area of human papillomavirus, gene editing and gene silencing.

Australia | Pamela Williams is an investigative journalist. She has won six Walkleys including the Gold Walkley, plus the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year award, the Quill award, and the George Munster award. She has written two best-sellers: the political book The Victory; and business book, Killing Fairfax, a
Walkley winner.

Australia | Professor Paulo de Souza is a physicist with a PhD in Natural Sciences. He was a collaborating scientist on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers Project, contributing to the design, production, deployment, and operation of a sensor used by two rovers on Mars; Spirit and Opportunity.

India | Pavan Sukhdev is Founder-CEO of GIST Advisory, a consulting collaborative that evaluates corporate and national performance, including externalities. Awarded Yale University's 2011-12 McCluskey Fellowship, Pavan wrote Corporation 2020 while teaching at Yale. This book prioritises and describes four critical reforms to transform today's business for tomorrow's world.

Australia | Peter Greste began his career in regional television news in his native Australia through the late 1980s. Inspired by One Crowded Hour, the biography of frontline cameraman Neil Davis, he left his job at the Ten Network in Adelaide in 1991, to follow his dream of becoming a foreign correspondent.

Australia | Phil Swinsburg is a retired Australian Army Lieutenant Colonel, having previously served over 24 years in the active military and has deployed three times to Iraq and once to Afghanistan, with shorter operational visits to Timor Leste and Bouganville.

United Kingdom | Philippe Sands is Professor of Law at University College London and a practicing barrister at Matrix Chambers. He frequently appears before international courts, including the International Criminal Court and the World Court in The Hague, and has been involved in many of the most important cases of recent years, including Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq and Guantanamo.

Angola | Rafael Marques de Morais is a journalist and human rights defender with a special interest in political economy and human rights in Angola. In 2009, he founded the watchdog website “Maka,” dedicated to exposing government and industry corruption and human rights abuses – speaking out for those whose human rights have been violated in his country.

Australia | Raimond Gaita is Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and The Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Australia | Rebecca was quite happily delivering daily traffic reports to ABC listeners, before she was dragged kicking and screaming into the producer's seat for Richard Fidler. Her life hasn't been the same since. Host of ABC Weekends on ABC Radio Brisbane

Australia | Robert Manne is Emeritus Professor of Politics and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at La Trobe University. He was educated at the University of Melbourne and at Oxford University. Manne wrote regular columns on public affairs between 1987 and 2005 for the Melbourne Herald, The Age, The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald and has been a commentator on the ABC for many years.

Australia | Rowan Callick is an author and columnist. He has three times worked as China Correspondent, once for The Australian Financial Review and twice for The Australian, completing his last posting in April this year.

Indonesia | Sakdiyah Ma'ruf is one of the first Indonesian Muslim female stand-up comics. Passionate advocate for freedom and equality, she juggles life behind the mic as a comedian and interpreter. Winner of the esteemed 2015 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent and shortlisted for the 2016 Index on Censorship Awards.

United States | Sarah is senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of award-winning and critically acclaimed Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. She is an international authority on corruption and its causes. Her work explores how it exacerbates international crises such as terrorism, revolutions and their violent aftermaths, and environmental degradation.

Australia | Scott Stephens is Editor of the ABC’s Religion and Ethics website, and specialist commentator on religion and ethics for ABC radio and television. He is also co-host (with Waleed Aly) of The Minefield on Radio National, and frequent guest presenter of The Philosopher’s Zone. He presented two series of the critically acclaimed Life’s Big Questions program on ABC1, and has guest presented Conversations with Richard Fidler on ABC local radio.

United States | Seth is a New York Times op-ed contributor, a visiting lecturer at The Wharton School, and a former Google data scientist. His research – which uses new, big data sources to uncover hidden behaviours and attitudes – has appeared in the Journal of Public Economics and other prestigious publications. He lives in New York City.

United Kingdom | Shami Chakrabarti is one of the UK’s best known campaigners. She served as Director of Liberty for more than a decade gaining a reputation for her fearless campaigning against anti-terrorist measures and the erosion of civil liberties.

Australia | Shellie's voice and heart-felt music has seen her grace stages from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, the Sydney Opera House and Skirball in New York. Her advocacy and empowerment work has seen her gain recognition as the 2014 NT Australian of the Year, Music in Community award recipient as well as winning NIMAs and Deadlys for her music.

South Africa | Sisonke Msimang is a South African writer whose work is focussed on gender, race and democracy. Sisonke is the author of two books - Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home; and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela. She is the head of the oral storytelling programme at Perth’s Centre for Stories, and curates the Perth Festival’s Literature and Ideas programme.

Australia | Stan Grant is one of Australia’s most respected and awarded journalists. He has more than 30 years experience in radio and television news and current affairs and a strong reputation for independence and integrity.

Australia | Dr Tim Soutphommasane is Race Discrimination Commissioner and commenced his five-year appointment on 20 August 2013. Prior to joining the Australian Human Rights Commission, he was a political philosopher and held posts at The University of Sydney and Monash University. His thinking on multiculturalism, national identity and patriotism has been influential in shaping debates in Australia and Britain.

Australia | Tony is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and a Research Group leader at Data61, Australia's Centre of Excellence for ICT Research. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, as well as the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and has won the prestigious Humboldt research award. He has previously held research positions in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland and Sweden.

Australia | Tom Switzer is the Executive Director at the Centre for Independent Studies, host of Between the Lines on the ABC’s Radio National and a Fairfax columnist.