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Oxfam Australia Executive Director Andrew Hewett. Photo: Jerry Galea/OxfamAUS
Andrew Hewett has worked with Oxfam Australia since 1991, and has been Executive Director since October 2001. He established the agency's advocacy program and coordinated Oxfam International's response to the crisis in Timor.
Andrew is the Vice-President of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak council of non-government overseas development agencies.
Latest news from the Executive Director
- Challenges for Reconciliation (PDF 63kB)
- Andrew’s speech presented to Engineers Without Borders, Melbourne University, 9 May 2008.
- Climate Wrongs, Human Rights
- Andrew's speech 2008 CANA Conference, Sydney, April 2008.
- The Ethics of Climate Change (PDF 170KB)
- Andrew's speech presented in Traralgon, 17 October 2007.
- Closing the Gap and Healing the Divide (PDF 50KB)
- Andrew's speech presented to the Brisbane Institute in August 2007.
- 2008 ACFID Humanitarian Forum: Resiliency in Africa – Global implications (PDF 50KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the Humanitarian Forum - William Angliss Conference Centre Melbourne, 17 March 2008.
- What Works and What Doesn't? New Directions in Conflict Intervention (PDF 84KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies - University of Sydney, 1 February 2008.
- Sustainable consumption: consumer demand for corporate action (PDF 53KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the Consumers' International World Congress, Sydney, 30 October 2007.
- An Australian civil society perspective on development in the Mekong (PDF 74KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the Greater Mekong conference, Sydney, 26 September 2007.
- The Protection of civilians, a common denominator (PDF 75KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the conference "Force for Good: 60 Years of Australian Peacekeeping", Canberra, Friday 14 September 2007.
- Food Aid: Separating the wheat from the chaff (PDF 63KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the National Press Club, Canberra, Monday 10 September 2007.
- Close the Gap: solutions need more than just a quick fix (PDF 35KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the Close the Gap photo exhibition, Perth, Tuesday 24 July 2007.
- Australian non-government organisations in the Asia region (PDF 58KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the Asialink Leaders Program, Melbourne, Thursday 20 July 2007.
- Make Poverty History – what could Australia do? (PDF 81KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the Newcastle Business Club, Tuesday 19 June 2007.
- Good Global Citizen: A new direction in Australia’s foreign policy (PDF 85KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the Fringe Forum, ALP National Conference, Sydney, Sunday 29 April 2007.
- Close the Gap: achieving Indigenous health equality (PDF 78KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the Fringe Forum, ALP National Conference, Sydney, Saturday 28 April 2007.
- Where are the votes in aid? (PDF 76KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the Make Poverty History Fringe Forum, ALP National Conference, Sydney, Thursday 27 April 2007.
- Launch of Forest Stewardship Council (PDF 40KB)
- Comments by Andrew Hewett, March 2007.
- Realising the potential: development in mining in the Asia Pacific region (PDF 56KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the APEC Ministers Responsible for Mining 3, Perth, Tuesday 13 February 2007.
- The Millennium Development Goals: far from perfect but absolutely crucial (PDF 37KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at the forum ‘Creating a Fairer World: What should the G-20 do?’, Melbourne, Thursday 16 November 2006.
- Climate of Poverty - sink or swim? (PDF 57KB)
- Andrew's speech presented at various meetings in Tasmania, October/November 2006.
- The White Paper on Australia’s aid program: missed opportunity or Brave New World? (PDF 107KB)
- Andrew’s speech presented at the Australian Institute of International Affairs in Sydney, Tuesday 9 May 2006.
- Being risky and trustworthy: dilemmas facing a non-government development agency (PDF 88KB)
- Andrew speaks at the Deakin University Community Development in a Global Risk Society Conference, March 2006.
- How to improve the Australian aid program (PDF 34KB)
- Andrew speaks about key ways to improve Australia's aid program, December 2005.
- Speech by Andrew Hewett at the Australian Institute of International Affairs (PDF 35KB)
- Andrew speaks about challenges and opportunites in the face of the tsunami disaster, February 2005.