Senior Consultant

Level 6
224-236 Queen Street
MELBOURNE VIC 3000

Ph: +61 3 9604 4400
Fax: +61 3 9600 3155

 

 

Stephen Iles is a senior consultant in ACIL Tasman’s Melbourne office. He has developed an intimate knowledge of contemporary Australian aboriginal issues.

Most recently Stephen was the project leader of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership’s well publicised Welfare Reform Project. The Institute is part of Griffith University’s Department of Politics and Public Policy. The report From Hand Out to Hand Up (www.cyi.org.au) identifies the economic and social factors associated with indigenous disadvantage in Australia and articulated a compelling set of economic reforms to indigenous policy to allow indigenous Australians to break widespread welfare dependence, highlighting the role of incentives, responsibility and reciprocity.

Stephen is a former Chief Executive Officer of Bama Ngappi Ngappi Aboriginal Corporation (BNNAC). BNNAC is a not-for-profit, indigenous organisation employing 200 staff and operating in 10 locations across Far North Queensland developing individual capability by creating employment and business development opportunities, delivering CDEP, Job Network and New Apprenticeship services.

He brings corporate finance experience to the project having worked for Westpac in Corporate, Institutional and Retail divisions. He was also a secondee to Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation while with Westpac where he developed business plans for local businesses to be established in indigenous communities.

His previous corporate experience includes roles with Bank of Melbourne, Coca Cola Amatil, BP and National Australia Bank.