Andrew Campion

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Andrew Campion is a futures consultant with an interest in new technology and youth markets. He was formerly a Director at Global Business Network Australia where his work involved research, scenario facilitation, developing seminar programs, writing book reviews and he was editor of the Network e-zine PRETEXT.

He was introduced to GBN through the Future of Asia Worldview Meeting in 1998, and was subsequently contracted as a researcher and scenario writer for the Australian Business Foundation's Alternative Futures project.

More recently, he has worked with clients on areas such as mobile, broadband and online movements, the future of healthcare and new medicine, and power industry futures, the environment and clean energy. He co-facilitated the five day GBNA Short Course Festival that covered scenarios, strategy, The Business Idea and organisational learning.

Before the Tech Wreck of 2000, he was working at ebooks.com to identify appropriate publishers and titles and sign them in to the eBooks repository. Andrew began his professional career as a trade economist. He lived in Japan in the mid-nineties, using this as a base to explore the region and travel the globe. During this time he worked in a hands-on capacity in the trade of apparel and foodstuffs. On his return to Oz, he worked under Denis Gastin at INSTATE to produce several studies that assessed Australia's role in Asia for organisations such as CEDA and DFAT, and private firms looking for a piece of the action in Asia.

Andrew sits on the sub-committee of The Big Issue - Australia's street paper with a sense of humour and a sense of equality. Away from the office, he explores a passion for music. He was Music Director of the Bondi-Bronte Sea Theatre Festival for two years and continues to work as a DJ, an activity that keeps him abreast of youth culture and the motivating forces behind Generations X,Y,Z.