Academic Staff
Dr Michael Liffman
Dr Michael Liffman is the founding Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy. He has a background in social policy, research and community work. After working with the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Ecumenical Migration Centre, he became CEO of the Myer Foundation and the Sidney Myer Fund. Michael is a Board member of the SouthPort Community Residential Home, and the Alpine School.
Dr Christopher Baker
Christopher Baker joined the research team at APCSIP in January 2010 following the submission of his PhD thesis “Wealth transfer and post-mortem charitable giving in Australia”.
Dr Michael Moran
Michael Moran is a researcher at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy.
Ms Rikki Andrews
Rikki Andrews is sessional lecturer at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy. She is also a Trustee for the Board of Trust for Nature, the inaugural president of the Swinburne Philanthropy Alumni and has been closely involved with a number of Victorian not-for-profit organisations. Rikki has a background in sales, business development and grant-making within trustee companies.
Dr Liz Branigan
Liz Branigan is a Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator for the Master of Social Investment and Philanthropy. Liz came to Swinburne in early 2012, following an extensive career that spans the fields of education, policy and advocacy.
Staff Profile
General Staff
Ms Helen Imber
Affiliates
Adjunct Professor Peter Hero
Peter Hero is an independent international consultant in organisational development, with extensive experience in international community foundation development. For the last 18 years he was President and CEO of Community Foundation Silicon Valley (CFSV). Under Peter's leadership, the foundation grew from a centre with less than $10 million in total assets and three staff to a regional centre for philanthropy with over $1.1 billion in total assets, with annual grants exceeding $150 million.
Peter holds and MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, a a Master of Arts in Art History from Williams College and a Honorary Doctor of Laws from the Maine College of Art. His writing on community development and philanthropy has been published in the US and Europe.
Peter is a regular visitor to Melbourne where he is also on the board of Melbourne Community Foundation. In Peter’s most recent visit early in 2009 he spoke about the postgraduate teaching of philanthropy and social investment, its importance and the US experience.
Kylie Charlton, Heloise Waislitz Fellow for 2009
Kylie is a founding team member of Unitus Capital, a financial advisory firm specialising in arranging capital for microfinance institutions (MFIs) and other social enterprises, benefiting those at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Unitus Capital was founded in July 2008 by the international non-profit Unitus Inc. and several committed investors. Kylie led the capital markets strategy at Unitus for four years where she arranged debt and provided capital structuring for MFIs across six countries, advised investment funds and banks on their portfolio of microfinance loans, and played a leading role in the development and launch of the Unitus Equity Fund 1, L.P. Prior to this, Kylie was Vice-President in the Project and Structured Finance Group at Citigroup.
Kylie has 11 years experience in commercial and investment banking in Sydney and New York. She holds a MBA from the Said Business School at Oxford University, where she was a founding member and student co-chair of the Oxford Business Network for Social Entrepreneurship.
