Alan is the youngest member of the Board of Directors of Oxfam Australia, one of Australia’s largest international development organisations. Last year, the agency invested more than $110m to improve the lives of more than 5 million people in 30 countries. He is also a senior advisor with the Open Government Partnership, a multilateral project to make governments more inclusive, responsive and accountable.

Previously, Alan served as Chair of Australia’s peak body for young people, where he led the successful campaign to re-establish a federal Minister for Youth position. He also helped secure new, annual government funding to ensure, for the first time in over a decade, that young Australians had a seat at the table, wherever the national agenda was being shaped. He then served as an executive and lawyer with the Australian Government, and worked across the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Attorney-General, and Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Internationally, as Special Envoy for Young People to the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme, Alan helped develop the agency’s youth engagement strategy – one of the first in the United Nations system. Later, while serving on the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, he delivered Australia’s first statement on youth participation to the UNESCO General Conference. After attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Alan was also recently tapped to help grow the Forum’s Global Shapers Community, which supports young changemakers across the world.