Taylor is an award-winning policy and leadership development specialist. She is the MD of Foundations for Tomorrow, advised the United Nations Foundation in the lead-up to the Summit of the Future, is on the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network Advisory Board and serves on the Leadership Team for the Network of Institutions for Future Generations.
Taylor Dee Hawkins
Managing Director
Emi is a civic engagement expert and democratic innovation practitioner dedicated to inclusive governance for future generations. She is the Director of Policy & Engagement at Foundations for Tomorrow, founder of Carnelian Foundation and leading research in effective government collaboration.
Emi Hall
Director of Policy and Engagement
Clare is a policy innovator and long-term governance practitioner specialising in intergenerational collaboration, systems change and leadership. She leads Foundations for Tomorrow's Future Generations Fellowship and research partnerships translating global best practice into Australian approaches to long-term governance. She is also a 2026 Next Generation Foresight Practitioner Fellow with the School of International Futures.
Clare Beaton-Wells
Strategic Policy Advisor
Ella believes deeply in the power of community, and in making public life more accessible to the people it affects. Her work is shaped by a simple idea: that good communication helps people feel less shut out of complex systems, from policy and advocacy to education, government and the not-for-profit sector. She has built experience across domestic and international organisations, and been recognised at the Asian-Australian Leadership Awards and the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards.
Ella Kay
Communications Advisor
Matthew is a policy, legal and interdisciplinary researcher, specialising in international relations, human rights, international law, and long-term governance. His interest in future generations policy, and in law, policy and governance reform, was encouraged by a research placement with Foundations for Tomorrow in November 2022, and led to continued engagement. He was a co-author of "Future Generations Policy, Governance and Leadership: 'Ending Policrastination'" (2026), and is a Foundations for Tomorrow 2026 Future Generations Fellow.
Matthew Day
Research Advisor
Zali's research, work and advisory roles span multiple disciplines, including climate justice, intergenerational wellbeing and mental health. She has a background in law and international security, having undertaken her Honours research on the potential for future generations legislation to challenge the anthropocentrism of Australia's legal and political systems. As part of this research, she re-drafted the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill, presenting a vision for legislation that serves the whole Earth Community across an expanded temporal horizon. Zali brings extensive experience across youth advisory roles, public speaking and research, and is energised by collaborative spaces where imagination, vulnerability and care foster transformative solutions and strengthened communities. She is currently a UNICEF Australia Young Ambassador, and a Board Director for EcoMind, where she consults on strategy, program design and domestic policy. In 2026, Zali was selected for the Women's Environmental Leadership Australia (WELA) National Leadership Program, and continues to support research projects related to climate justice, its intersections with gender, and systems reform.
Zali Fisher
Research Advisor
The Lab's core advisors
Tristan is the founder and Director of award-winning strategic design practice Relative Creative. A designer, researcher and strategist of Gamilaroi and Australian-European descent, he works across futures thinking, decolonising contexts and sustainability - spanning government, community and international contexts. He holds a PhD in Design and honorary research roles at UTS, RMIT and Bond University.
Tristan Schultz
Keeva is the Founder and Principal Strategist of Quip Brands, a creative intelligence consultancy. A strategist, writer and cultural analyst, she works across brand strategy, cultural intelligence and audience behaviour - spanning health, media, education, and not-for-profit contexts across Australia and internationally. She holds a Juris Doctor, GAICD and Master of Criminology.
Keeva Stratton
Dr Rachel Bacon has 28 years of public service experience, including 19 years in senior leadership roles across the Australian Public Service and the Northern Territory Public Service. She concluded her APS career as Deputy Commissioner at the Australian Public Service Commission, and now brings this whole-of-government expertise to work across teaching, consulting, governance and public leadership. She has served at Deputy Secretary and equivalent levels across a broad range of portfolios, including integrity and public sector reform, regional development and place-based policy, environment and energy, and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and spent three years in the Northern Territory public service as Deputy CEO. A systems thinker with a passion for place-based solutions, she is known for connecting complex policy challenges to practical, people-centred outcomes and for building trust across diverse stakeholder networks. She holds a PhD in administrative law from the University of Sydney and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Rachel is Chair of the Board of the ACT Women's Legal Centre, a Council Member of the ACT Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA), and has held director roles on the boards of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority and the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal.
Rachel Bacon
Richard Holden is the inaugural Vice-Chancellor's Professor, Chief Societal Economist, and Director of the Manos Institute for Cognitive Economics at UNSW, and President Emeritus of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He was previously on the faculty at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received an AM and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. He has published in leading general interest journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies and Nature, and his research has been featured in the New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist and The New Republic. A regular media commentator and weekly columnist for the Australian Financial Review, he is a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and the Royal Society of New South Wales. His most recent books are From Free to Fair Markets: Liberalism after COVID-19, Money in the Twenty-First Century: Cheap, Mobile, Digital, and Australia's Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race.
Richard Holden
The Lab's Governance Council
The leaders overseeing the Lab
The Governance Council is a group of independent and respected subject matter experts ensuring the Lab delivers in alignment with its core principles.
Rana Ebrahimi is a national leader and advocate dedicated to advancing the rights, inclusion, and wellbeing of multicultural children and young people. As National Manager of MYAN, she brings expertise in social inclusion, humanitarian ethics, and systems change, influencing policy and practice across Australia and the Asia-Pacific. She serves as Chair of Refugee Education Australia, Chair of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging for Rotary District 9800, and on the international board of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, and advises several national organisations and government bodies. A trailblazer in humanitarian leadership, Rana was the first Iranian woman to serve as National Head of Office for UNHCR in Iran. Her contributions have been recognised through the 2023 Multicultural Award of Excellence and Rotary's Royce Abbey Champion of Change Award.
Rana Ebrahimi
Karen Andrews is an experienced board director, mechanical engineer, and former Federal Minister with a career spanning engineering, industrial relations, national security, and public policy. She began her career in the petrochemical and electricity sectors before moving into senior industrial relations and workforce roles across health, hospital, and ambulance services, supporting major organisational and clinical workforce reforms. Karen served in the Australian Parliament for over a decade, including as Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Industry, Science and Technology - with responsibility for national security agencies, cyber and counterterrorism reforms, border operations during COVID-19, and strengthening sovereign capability through the Modern Manufacturing Strategy. She now holds board and advisory roles and consults in governance, recruitment, and organisational strategy, bringing deep experience in public administration, regulatory systems, and risk management.
Karen Andrews
Iain Walker is Executive Director of The newDemocracy Foundation, a role he has held since 2011. newDemocracy is a non-partisan, non-issue aligned research foundation exploring ways to do democracy better. Its focus is on ways to give everyday citizens a substantive role in our parliaments, akin to the jury system in our courts - designing, operating and overseeing Citizens' Assemblies and Citizens' Juries for councils and governments in Australia and internationally. newDemocracy's projects include work for state Premiers on both sides of politics, the Irish Parliament, the OECD and the UN Democracy Fund, as well as over 30 large-scale projects in Australia.
Iain Walker
Charlotte Mortlock has spent her career at the intersection of democracy and accountability - as a political reporter and news anchor for Sky News, an advisor inside the Liberal Party, and a movement builder who brought women into political life across Australia through Hilma's Network. Convinced that meaningful change required building something new, Charlotte left the Liberal Party and Hilma's Network in 2026 to found Something Better Australia, a campaign to create Australia's next major political party. She is a staunch believer in the fourth estate, participatory democracy, and the idea that political structures should reflect the people they serve. Her 12 years as a broadcast journalist across New York, Sydney and rural Australia sharpened the instincts she now brings to political innovation: how to cut through, who holds power, and what it takes to shift it.
Charlotte Mortlock
Aleem has spent more than two decades seeding and mentoring the development of leading initiatives and social enterprises that advance inclusion, belonging and justice for diverse communities.
He is the Deputy Chair of Oxfam Australia and a mentor and advisor to various startups, community enterprises and government agencies.
As the CEO of Welcoming Australia, Aleem is working with leaders and organisations across the country to cultivate a culture of welcome and advance communities where everyone belongs, thrives and shapes our shared future.
Aleem Ali
Chelsea is an experienced policy, advocacy and government relations specialist focused on the policy levers and institutional arrangements that perpetuate systemic inequity in Australia. She has expertise in planetary health, food systems and preventive health policy, having worked in not-for-profit and academic institutions including the Climate and Health Alliance, The George Institute for Global Health and the Climate Action Network Australia. Chelsea is currently completing her PhD at the Australian National University, focusing on Commonwealth Treasury and governance of the wellbeing economy in Australia. Her previous research has focused on planetary health policy, wellbeing economies, food ethics and sustainable and nutritious food systems. She is passionate about fostering an Australia that prioritises intergenerational health and equity in a stable Earth system.
Chelsea Hunnisett
Jason is a Wiradjuri start-up founder with extensive governance expertise and experience across community, corporate, government and philanthropic sectors. He advises leaders on strategy, leadership, governance and systems transformation across commercial, for-purpose, and creative industries. Jason is a Co-founder and Director of Native Foodways, was the inaugural Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity program and the creator and inaugural CEO of the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence. He was part of the start-up team that built Reconciliation Australia and served on its Board for five years, and part of the collaboration that built the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples. He is currently a member of the Boards of The GO Foundation and ACON and, until recently, was Chair of PwC Indigenous Consulting and the Australian Indigenous Governance Institute. Jason is an Industry Professor at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS and a member of the Indigenous Advisory Group at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Jason Glanville
Research & Ethics Subcommittees
First Nations Data Sovereignty
Intercultural Engagement & Ethics
the co-chairs
Meet the Development Track Co-Chairs
Each of the six Development Tracks is guided by Co-Chairs who bring deep, complementary expertise to the design work. Choose a track, or watch them all go by.
how it fits together
The structure of the Lab.
Foundations for Tomorrow convenes the Lab. A Governance Council holds oversight, Core Partners lead the six Development Tracks, and a wider network of experts, fellows and community feeds in throughout.
Lab governanceGovernance Council
Core Partners
Development Tracks
Track 1Government and policy integration
Track 2Research design, data capture, privacy and ethics
Track 3Experience design and technology
Track 4Community-led design and localisation
Track 5Accessibility and inclusion
Track 6Public engagement, narrative and framing
Research Ethics and Cultural Integrity Group
The Expert Network
Future Generations Fellows
The Community Network
who's in the Lab
A snapshot of the 240+ organisations and experts bringing the Lab to life.
The Lab is made possible by our Core Partners, Expert Network and Community Network.