Sue-Anne Wallace is an Australian philanthropist.

Biography

Wallace originally trained as a pharmacist at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

. She later studied humanities subjects and completed a doctorate in art history at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

. From 2005 to 2009, Wallace served as the CEO of the Fundraising Institute Australia. During her tenure she developed a set of principles and standards for fundraising practice which aimed to raise the practice of charitable fundraising in Australia. In 2010 she was appointed chair of the

Australian Council for International Development The Australian Council For International Development (ACFID) is an independent national association of Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) working in the field of international aid and development. ACFID was founded in 1965, with Syd Ein ...

’s Code of Conduct Committee, and in 2015 she was appointed vice-president of the Humanitarian Quality Assurance Initiative. In 2015 she received a

Churchill Scholarship The Churchill Scholarship is awarded by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States to graduates of the more than one hundred colleges and universities invited to participate in the Churchill Scholarship Program, for the pursuit of res ...

and investigated international practice in self-regulation and complaints handling. In 2017 she was made a

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for her services to the not-for-profit sector.

References

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