Susan Oliver

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Susan Oliver is the Managing Director of Futures Alliance, an Australian consulting practice in strategic planning, futures studies and scenario planning. Her clients include companies in manufacturing, media, finance, health and telecommunication as well as government departments.

She is a non-executive director and chairman of several public and private sector organisations. She sits on the Board of Transurban City Link, Medical Benefits Fund, Programmed Maintenance Services, The Smith Family and Methodist Ladies College Susan is a board member and guest lecturer of the Australian Foresight Institute at Swinburne University in Victoria. Susan was previously chairman of ScreenSound Australia, a founding Director of the Big Issue Australia, Managing Director of the Australian Commission for the Future, a member of the Victorian Premiers Multimedia Taskforce, Director of Interact Events, Chair of FHA Design P/L and a Director of the Victorian Institute of Marine Sciences.

Susan played a key role as the project and workshop designer and facilitator for the GBN Australia project 'Alternative Futures: Scenarios for Business in Australia to the year 2015' commissioned by the Australian Business Foundation. She authored two scenarios - First Global Nation and Brave Old World.

She was until mid 1996 a senior manager at Andersen Consulting and headed up an in-house research and development team covering projects in Australia and Asia Pacific in health futures, eCommerce, organising to compete globally and to compete in Asia, and several banking and finance sector futures studies. Prior to this Susan held senior managerial positions in business consulting and in the public service.

Susan is a strategic planner and futurist with a keen interest in technology and its relevance to society and business. She was the publisher of 21C, the magazine of the Australian Commission for the Future, is published in business journals and newspapers including Pretext, and was the principal author of Arts 21, the vision for the development of arts and cultural industries in Victoria. She led the project team that developed the use concept for Federation Square, a major city precinct redevelopment in Melbourne.