Liz Cham
Senior Fellow
Liz was National Director of Philanthropy Australia from 1996 – 2006. During this period she presided over a remarkable expansion in the organisation which now serves as the national membership body for grant-making foundations and trusts. She also played a large part in bringing important changes in tax law that have substantially increased philanthropic funding. Since her retirement Liz has continued to advocate reform in the philanthropic sector and has remains Chair of the Advisory Committee to The National Nonprofit Rountable. As the Senior Research Fellow in Philanthropy at The University of Melbourne, Liz is researching the early history of philanthropy in Australia, much of which, curiously, is buried in the files of the Rockerfeller Archive Center in Sleepy Hollow, New Jersey.