Peter Ellyard

Peter Ellyard (born 1937) is an Australian , strategist, speaker and author. Ellyard is best known for his book, [http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/catalogue/0-522-84975-X.html Ideas for the New Millennium] .

He is currently Chairman of the Preferred Futures institute and the Preferred Futures Group, which he founded in 1991. He also chairs the Sustainable Prosperity Foundation and two start up environmental companies.

Peter is a former Executive Director for the Australian Commission for the Future. He held CEO positions in a number of public sector organizations over 15 years including two associated with Environment and Planning, and one with Industry and Technology, and was also Chief of Staff of an Environment Minister in Canberra for 3 years. He is Adjunct Professor of Intergenerational Strategies at the University of Queensland , and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators, the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand, and the Australian Institute of Management. He is an elected Member of the International Union of Associations, based in Brussels, which has 45,000 international NGO members.

Dr Peter Ellyard has been a Senior Adviser to the United Nations system for more than 30 years including to the 1992 Earth Summit where he was a senior advisor on both the climate change and the biodiversity conventions. In this he was the only Australian and one of only 20 globally. At other times he has been a senior consultant to the UNEP, UNDP and UNESCO. He has also advised the OECD over 20 years. He is the author of the best selling book Ideas for the New Millennium (1998,2001).

Education

Ellyard is a graduate of Sydney University (B.Sc.Agr) and of Cornell University (MS. Ph.D).

Career

*1970-1972. Research Specialist, Science, Technology and the Environment, Legislative Research Service, Parliament House, Canberra, Australia
*1972-1975. Senior Adviser, Minister for Environment, Canberra, Australia
*1976-1979. Secretary, Department of Environment and Conservation, Papua New Guinea.
*1979-1983. Director-General, Department of Environment and Planning, South Australia
*1983-1988. Executive Director, Ministry of Technology, South Australia
*1988-1992. Executive Director, Australian Commission for the Future, Melbourne, Australia
*1992-present. Executive Director/Chairman Preferred Futures Group, Melbourne, Australia

Written works

Books by Ellyard:

*Ideas for the New Millennium . Melbourne University Press, Melbourne (1998,2001) ISBN 0 522 84975 X
* [http://www.designing2050.com/ Designing 2050: Pathways to Sustainable Prosperity on Spaceship Earth] TPNTXT, Melbourne (2007) ISBN 978-0-9804213-0-9

Book chapters written and books edited by Ellyard include:

*Bad Luck, Dead Duck: The report of INSPECT 1970 , Dalton Publishing, Canberra (1970) (CoEditor)
*What a Mess! Lets Confess: The report of INSPECT 1971 Dalton Publishing, Canberra (1971) (CoEditor)
*Planning a ‘Cold Turkey’ Transition to the Year 2000’ in Prospect 2000: The Conference on the Future. (S,T. Waddell, Editor) ANZAAS, Perth (1979) (pp 171-182)
*The Need for a Vision in Science and Technology, in Federalism and Public Policy Federalism Research Centre, Australian National University ,Canberra (1992) (pp 17-25)
*Creating Vision-directed Governance for the 21st Century, in Governance and Economic Efficiency (Kenneth Wiltshire) CEDAMelbourne (1994)
*Effectiveness and Potential of State-of-the-art Technologies in the Delivery of Higher Education (CoAuthor), Department of Employment, Education and Training, Canberra, AGPS (1994)
*From Cowboys to Cosmonauts in The Way Ahead, Liz Burski (editor), New Holland Publishers, (1998) (pp 87-104)
*Planetism :The shaping of Relationships in the 21st Century , in Relationships into the New millennium, Relationships Australia (1999) (pp 54-67)
*Imagining the future and getting to it first. in Innovation and Imagination at work (Carolyn Barker editor) McGraw Hill Australia, Sydney (2001) (pp 152-183) ISBN 0 074 70924 0
*Shaping the Future of Human Settlements; Globalisation and the Leadership and Management of Change, in Tall building and Urban Habitat: Cities in the Third Millennium. Report of the 6th World Congress of the Council of Tall Building and Urban Habitat. Spon Press, London (2001) (pp 111-130)
*Developing a Learning Culture, in Problems are the Solutions (Steph Capra and Jenny Ryan (editors) Capra Ryan, Brisbane, 2002, (pp 21-36) ISBN 0-9586340-7-6
*Becoming a Leader first of Self, then of Others. in I Believe This : 100 Eminent Australians face Life’s Biggest Questions (John Marsden, Editor) Random House Australia, Sydney (2004) (pp 86-88)

External links

* [http://gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/02/20/gday-world-204-dr-peter-ellyard-futurist/ G'Day World Podcast interview with Peter Ellyard]
* [http://www.saxton.com.au/default.asp?sd8=63 Peter Ellyard - Saxton Speaker Bureau - Speaker Details]
* [http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/catalogue/0-522-84975-X.html Ideas for the New Millennium] - Peter Ellyard's first book
* [http://www.abc.net.au/nsw/stories/s1088819.htm Smoking goes the way of the Dodo - ABC Radio 15 April 2004]