Paul Ronalds

Paul Ronalds is the CEO of Save the Children Australia.

Prior to this, Paul was First Assistant Secretary in the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, Canberra, Australia, responsible for social policy issues.

He also worked for World Vision Australia for six years, initially as Director of Policy and Programs and then as Deputy CEO and Director of Strategy.

Paul also has extensive experience working with other types of NGOs. He was chief operating officer of Urban Seed, an innovative and dynamic NGO that provides a range of services to marginalised people in Melbourne's inner city and was a non-executive director of The First Step Limited, a rapid drug detoxification clinic in St Kilda, Melbourne.

Prior to his work in the 'Third Sector', Paul was a corporate lawyer with law firm Freehills and a co-founder of wishlist.com.au, one of Australia's most successful e-commerce companies.

Paul is a graduate of the St James Ethics Centre's Vincent Fairfax Fellowship in Ethics and Leadership and from 2006-8 was an industry representative on the Australian Council for International Development's (ACFID) Code of Conduct Committee. He has degrees in economics and law with honours from Monash University, a graduate diploma in applied finance and a masters in international relations from Deakin University.

He is the author of The Change Imperative: Creating a Next Generation NGO, a forthcoming book on organisational challenges faced by INGOs in a rapidly evolving global political context. Other recent writing includes a chapter in the forthcoming Ethical Questions and International NGOs called "Obligations to the Poor in a World of Nation States".