Amanda Young

Amanda Young is a Pacific Island descendant who has devoted 27 years of her career to reducing inequalities, a sustained commitment which has led her across five sectors: legal, government, commercial, economic and academic. From her first job as a criminal lawyer, she transitioned to designing public policy in challenging domains such as Indigenous wage reparations, police misconduct, Stolen Generations and family violence.

From 2012 she added Indigenous economic development to her focus, from Indigenous business coaching to a transformational period of leadership as the CEO of First Nations Foundation, a national economic Indigenous non-profit. There she developed a national Indigenous financial wellbeing framework, led research on Indigenous finances, built award-winning financial literacy edtech and remote Indigenous superannuation outreach programs. Amanda is a global Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity from the London School of Economics, has undertaken executive study at Harvard, Stanford and Cambridge, to add to her postgraduate legal qualifications, and is also a non-executive director on the board of Cufa.