Peter Strong
Executive Director Peter Strong was appointed as Executive Director of COSBOA in June 2010. Peter has spent much of the last 20 years in change management at the business, community and national level. He has worked for the Australian Government and with NGOs, the World Bank and the United Nations. He has worked on national business and employment policy and international projects aimed at assisting countries and regions experiencing substantial economic and social change. This has included work in China where he has assisted unemployed women start small businesses through the development of a business incubator and business advisory services. He also worked in Turkey with Government and community leaders preparing for that country’s entry into the European Community and for coping with the changes coming from industry and enterprise restructuring. He worked in the former Soviet Union on the major structural changes occurring in the early to mid 1990s. Peter has written several business related publications and represents small business organisations on a number of government and industry advisory groups including the Tax Office, the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission and Treasury. Peter is also Chairman of the Board for the Bendigo Community Bank branches in Canberra and owns a bookshop in Canberra that employs 5 staff. |