Andrew White is Manage of Advocacy for World Vision Australia. He has over 10 years of experience working across policy, advocacy, government relations and corporate affairs. As part of the Ending Violence Against Children (EVAC) Coalition, Andrew has contributed to the development and rollout of the Unseen, Unsafe report with decision-makers and the development of a locally-led campaign in Papua New Guinea to push for local government implementation of better child protection support services. He also recently led World Vision’s engagement as part of the Kids Off Nauru movement in 2018/19.

Previously, Andrew as Deputy CEO of AUSVEG, the national peak industry body representing Australian vegetable and potato farmers, where he campaigned for changes to Australia’s food labelling systems, and on a range of other issues facing rural Australians.

Concurrent session speaker: Joining forces to end violence against children (EVAC) in the Pacific and Timor-Leste