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2025 Selection Committee

2025 Selection Committee Members

  • Steven Spurr, Director, Shared Value Project (Selection Committee Chair)
  • Hugh Foley, Shared Value Expert, Hugh Foley Consulting
  • Brad Potter, Professor of Financial Accounting and Head of the Department of Accounting, University of Melbourne
  • Sally Capp AO, CEO, Create Advisory Group, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Melbourne
  • Karen Seymour, Chief Purpose Officer, Human at Work
  • David Spriggs, CEO, Infoxchange
  • Lee McDougall, Head of Group Sustainability & Climate Action, IAG
  • Ada Wong, Convenor, The Good Lab, Convenor & School Supervisor, Make A Difference Institute
  • Rosemary Addis AM, Founding Managing Partner, Mondiale Impact, Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne, Sorenson Global Impact Leader, Ambassador Global Steering Group for Impact Investing
  • Fred Ku, Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies), CUHK Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Mark Kramer, Co-founder Shared Value, Chief Advisor, Shared Value Project
  • Michelle Cheah, Australasia Community Engagement Manager | Social Impact Leader, Arup
  • Kylie Charlton, Managing Director, Australian Impact Investments

 

Steven Spurr, Director, Shared Value Project (Chair, 2025 Shared Value Awards Selection Committee)

 Steve is a strategist focused on designing and implementing programs that lead to better organisational and system outcomes. He leads Spurcoe a consultancy in Sydney that works with leaders to optimise economic, environmental, and social value.

Steve supports positive change and better outcomes through systems thinking and activation, shared value strategies, trust and reputation approaches, data synthesis and sense-making. Steve has over 20 years of research experience in qualitative and quantitative research techniques to understand stakeholder drivers, barriers, and receptivity to positive change.

Steve specialises in social and environmental outcome challenges and has recently worked with government, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations focused on emissions reduction, climate resilience, first nations education, food waste, social mobility, freshwater systems, sustainable housing, and how to improve the outcomes of the Australian housing system.

Previously, Steve was the CEO of Edelman in Australia, leading an award-winning team and advocating for improving trust between stakeholders, shareholders, and citizens to improve business and government outcomes. Steve spearheaded Edelman’s Trust Barometer work in Australia understanding the dynamics and conditions that support trust.

Prior to this, Steve lived in the UK where he was COO of Edelman UK & Ireland, leading the day-to-day operations of more than six hundred staff across three offices. He counselled a wide variety of clients, led multiple strategy, reputation and change management initiatives and collaborated with clients on reshaping organisational structures to meet strategic needs.

Steve is a passionate speaker, accomplished facilitator, and experienced event host. He has delivered just under two hundred keynote speeches on trust, shared value, and reputation management in the last 10 years.

Hugh Foley, Shared Value Expert

Hugh Foley is an expert in strategy, sustainability and shared value. He has advised companies across the industrial, banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, property, and automotive sectors.

Previously, Hugh worked for FSG in the US, a consulting firm founded by Harvard academics Mark Kramer and Professor Michael E Porter (creators of the ‘shared value’ concept).

Beyond consulting, Hugh has published research on shared value in the resources sector with the Shared Value Initiative (US) and on global road safety with the National Academy of Medicine (US). Hugh also teaches shared value theory at the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales and sits on the Advisory Board of the Shared Value Project (Australia).

Prior to FSG, Hugh worked as a lawyer at Allens law firm, and as an external relations consultant.  He is now an independent advisor, based in Melbourne.

 

Brad Potter, Professor of Financial Accounting and Head of the Department of Accounting, University of Melbourne

Brad is a Professor of Financial Accounting at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of both CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants ANZ with extensive experience in various senior roles in education, financial accounting and hospitality management. Through research, he works closely with industry and government to enhance reporting practice by diverse entities to enable more informed decisions by users. This includes how accounting thinking and approaches can create shared value opportunities.

Outside work, Brad is involved with several charities including through board roles and other volunteering activities.

 

Sally Capp AO, CEO, Create Advisory Group, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Melbourne

Sally Capp AO was the first woman to be directly elected as the Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Sally served for 6 years between 2018-2024 and led the city through the pandemic period.

Sally is currently CEO of Create Advisory group operating in the infrastructure sector. Sally is also a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Prior to being Lord Mayor, Sally was the first woman to hold the post of Agent-General for Victoria in the UK, Europe and Israel from 2009 – 2013. She was the CEO for the Committee for Melbourne and the Victorian Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia.

Sally began her career as a Solicitor, after completing Law (Hons) and Commerce degrees at the University of Melbourne. She has held senior roles at both KPMG and ANZ, and co-founded a small business which she took to the ASX.

Sally has been active in international networks and forums dedicated to cities including the Centre for Liveable Cities, C40, the Bloomberg Cities Network and presented at COP 28 in Dubai.

Sally received the award of Officer of the Order of Australia in 2023 and won the McKinnon Prize for emerging political leadership in 2019.

Karen Seymour, Chief Purpose Officer, World Flourishing Organization

Karen is Chief Impact Officer at the World Flourishing Organization (WFO), igniting a global movement for flourishing to unlock potential in people, create lasting value for business and society and make flourishing the true measure of success.

Previously, as Hong Kong’s first Chief Purpose Officer, she worked with leaders and teams to define, activate and strategically align their organisation’s unique and powerful purpose to fuel high performance and build thriving employees and businesses. Her career has been focused at the intersection of business and social impact, where shared value lives and where opportunities for sustainable growth are amplified.

She led the corporate Foundation and Community Engagement at global supply chain architect Li & Fung and has held other senior leadership roles at multinational companies in diverse industries including the financial markets (at State Street Global Advisors, MSCI, Datastream and Manulife). She also led start ups in media, social impact and wellness. She is a regular speaker on purpose and impact and has spent decades serving in communities and sparking awareness and action.

Karen is an Advisor and Board Member to for-impact organizations focused on neurodiversity, women’s empowerment, education, creating shared value, and carbon asset management. She thrives on big ideas, meaningful collaborations, and adventures in the ocean and mountains with family and friends.

 

David Spriggs, CEO, Infoxchange

David Spriggs is the CEO of Infoxchange, a not-for-profit social enterprise with the vision of ‘technology for social justice’.  He is passionate about creating a more digitally inclusive society and the role technology can play in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the not-for-profit sector.

In addition to his role at Infoxchange, David is Chair of the Australian Digital Inclusion Alliance (ADIA) and Deputy Chair of Specialisterne Australia, working to create careers for people on the autism spectrum.  David is also a Non-Executive Director of the Alannah & Madeline Foundation, a charity dedicated to keeping children and young people safe from violence wherever they live, learn and play.

David holds a Bachelor of Information Technology from the University of Queensland, a Certificate in Theology from Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and is a Graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

 

Lee McDougall, Head of Group Sustainability & Climate Action, IAG

Lee is deeply passionate about the commercial imperative for business to address our most pressing social and environmental issues.

Since joining IAG over a decade ago, Lee has worked in leadership roles driving corporate sustainability, shared value innovation and multi-sector collaborations focused on building safer and more resilient communities.  In her current role, Lee is leading the enterprise-wide strategic direction for sustainability and ESG to deliver on IAG’s purpose to make your world a safer place and achieve our net zero commitments.

Lee received the Shared Value Trailblazer Award in 2020 and is Chair of the Shared Value Leadership Council in Australia.  She completed her Master of Arts in International Relations as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar in the UK.

 

Ada Wong, Convenor, The Good Lab, Convenor & School Supervisor, Make A Difference Institute

Ada has led a varied career as solicitor, educator, social innovator and entrepreneur. She is a staunch advocate of creative education, cultural development and social innovation. She founded Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture (HKICC), a non-profit cultural organization dedicated to creative education, and steered the operation of the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity. This is a specialist secondary school for the nurturing of talents in the arts and the creative industries.

With her extensive knowledge of public policies and cross-sector innovations, Ada has also founded the Make A Difference Institute (to nurture young changemakers in Asia with unique creative programmes and exchanges), Good Lab Foundation (a social innovation consultancy and Hong Kong’s first social innovation hub) and is also Chair of Ednovators, an organization for education innovation, focusing on capacity building of teachers to respond to the future of education.

Ada has sat on statutory and advisory bodies in areas of art, culture, urban regeneration and education. She was an elected member of the Urban Council and Wan Chai District Council between 1995 and 2008 with the last four years as Chairperson of the Wan Chai District Council. She received her BA (Hons) from Pomona College, California USA, and MEd from the University of Hong Kong. She has been guest lecturer at universities and speaker at international conferences. She is an Honorary Fellow of Lingnan University, Hong Kong Education University and the Hong Kong Baptist University respectively.

 

Rosemary Addis AM, Founding Managing Partner, Mondiale Impact, Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne, Sorenson Global Impact Leader, Ambassador Global Steering Group for Impact Investing

Rosemary Addis is serious about impact.  Rosemary’s portfolio of Chair, board and advisory roles is anchored by her role as Founding Managing Partner of Mondiale Impact, working alongside boards and other decision-makers grappling with social and environmental impact.  Her industry experience has seen her appointed Enterprise Professor at the University of Melbourne and Industry Professor at University College London.  She is a Global Ambassador for the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment.

Rosemary’s unique combination of commercial acumen, strategic insight and transformational leadership has made her a go-to principal for breakthrough solutions to complex issues.  She is globally recognised as a director and strategist at the forefront of innovation and investment for impact, sustainability and social innovation.

Her 30+ year track record spans a global legal career including as an equity partner of Allens-Linklaters, Social Innovation Strategist for the Australian Government, G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce and Founding Chair of Impact Investing Australia (Market Builder of the Year 2018 and 2020).

Rosemary has led design and execution of ground-breaking impact funds and enterprises.  She advised SDG Impact at the United Nations Development Programme, the OECD Social Impact Investing Initiative, the World Economic Forum Ideas to Practice, a World Bank Steering Group for Innovative Finance and clients internationally from major corporates and banks to institutional investors and asset managers, foundations and governments.

In 2020 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and has also been recognised as an inaugural Sorenson Impact Leader (2021), by Women in Finance ranking among top thought leaders (2017), Australia’s 100 Women of Influence for contributions to innovation (2015) and by Chambers Global as one of the world’s leading lawyers (2002 and 2003).

Her thought leadership is published widely and her work is the subject of numerous international case studies informing a generation of leaders.

 

Fred Ku, Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies), CUHK Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. Fred Ku is an academic leader and educator with a deep commitment to integrating social impact into business education. He is Associate Dean (Undergraduate Studies), Co-Director of the Global Business Studies program, and Founding Director of the Business Education for Social Good (BESGO) initiative at CUHK Business School, where he also serves as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Decisions, Operations and Technology.

Fred holds a PhD in Economics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and has over 15 years of teaching experience across undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Fred has led numerous cross-sector and cross-institutional collaborations focused on creating shared value through experiential learning, responsible business leadership, and inclusive pedagogy. He has secured over HK$40 million in teaching-related and social innovation funding, including support from the Hong Kong Government’s Youth Development Fund and the Education Bureau (EDB), where he has long contributed to curriculum development and professional training for economics educators. He is the convenor of the 2024/25 Industry Project-based Experiential Learning (INDEX) Symposium, which brings together academia and industry to enhance experiential learning and value-education through industry and interdisciplinary collaborations

Fred’s work has been recognized with multiple teaching and innovation awards, including as a two-time finalist at the QS Reimagine Education Awards (2024), for both sustainability literacy and partnership-driven learning. He is also the winner of CUHK University Education Award and the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award. He regularly advises NGOs, education bodies, and youth-led social ventures, and serves as a judge and speaker at international conferences and platforms advancing sustainability, education, and social good.

 

Mark Kramer, Co-founder Shared Value, Chief Advisor, Shared Value Project

Mark served as a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School from 2016 to 2023, and is co-founder of FSG, a global consulting firm which helps develop social impact strategies for many of the world’s largest corporations and foundations. Mark led the firm from 2000 to 2021 and currently serves as Chairman. He is also a Founder and Director of Maternal Newborn Health Innovations and a Partner in the Congruence Capital investment fund.

Mark is coauthor of the Harvard Business Review article “Creating Shared Value” (2011), along with Professor Michael Porter, and has spoken and published extensively on topics in philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, shared value, collective impact, strategic evaluation, and impact investing. He also serves as a Senior Fellow in the CSR Initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Mark is a founder and served as initial Board Chair from 2000 to 2004 of Center for Effective Philanthropy, a non-profit research organisation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to founding FSG, Mark served for twelve years as President of Kramer Capital Management, a venture capital firm, and before that as an Associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray in Boston.

Mark previously served as a Director on the Shared Value Project and Shared Value Initiative Hong Kong Boards, and has now transitioned to the role of Chief Advisor for both organisations.

 

Michelle Cheah, Australasia Community Engagement Manager | Social Impact Leader, Arup

Michelle is a strategic adviser and program leader who works with multi-sector organisations to embed sustainable development within business strategies, organisational practices and projects to create positive social impact. With a career spanning the corporate, non-profit, academic and government sectors, she specialises in facilitating strategic partnerships to address complex social issues.

Michelle has led flagship corporate social responsibility initiatives, educational capacity building programs, and social sustainability strategies in Australia and globally. She also works closely with multi-disciplinary teams and local counterparts to enable social outcomes in major infrastructure, cities, climate resilience, economic, and international development projects. Michelle is recognised for her practical and participatory approach to program design and implementation that supports partners to move from ambition to action.

Kylie Charlton, Managing Director, Australian Impact Investments

Kylie is the Managing Director of Australian Impact Investments (Aii) which she co-founded in 2014 as Australia’s pioneering impact asset consultant. With more than two decades of experience working in Australia and internationally at the intersection of mainstream capital markets, impact investment and philanthropy, Kylie has a proven track record in supporting investors to successfully deploy capital for impact and pioneering impactful investment initiatives. Kylie’s experience includes co-founding Unitus Capital, a financial advisory firm in India focused on capital access for socially beneficial companies, and serving as a Venture Partner for Giant Leap Fund I, Australia’s first venture capital fund dedicated entirely to impact investments. Kylie also serves on various investment committees, including the Betashares Responsible Investment Committee, managing responsible investment decisions for Betashares Ethical Series, and Australian Development Investments, Australia’s $250 million impact investment fund pioneered under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

In recognition of her contributions to the impact investment sector, Kylie has been honoured with several awards, including the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence (2018) and Australian Impact Investment Awards (2018 & 2021). Under Kylie’s leadership, Australian Impact Investments was awarded the Shared Value Investing Award (2024).

Kylie holds an MBA from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from Financial Servies Institute of Australasia (formerly Securities Institute of Australia), and Bachelor of Commerce (Banking & Finance) from the University of Canberra.