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Hugh Evans is an Australian humanitarian and the founder and former director of the Oaktree Foundation. Hugh is the co-founder and presently the CEO of the Global Poverty Project

Hugh completed VCE at Carey Grammar in Melbourne, and has completed a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Science at Monash University. Evans is currently reading a Masters in International Relations at the University of Cambridge.

Hugh's advocacy work in Australia and development subject has taken him around the world, where he spent six months studying at Woodstock School as a 1999 William Carey Scholarship recipient. He also spent time at The Hague in the Netherlands, where he was part of the Australian Schools delegation to The Hague International model United Nations. In South Africa, he worked for one year in 2002 as the inaugural World Vision Youth Ambassador and participated in the World Congress on Children's Rights and in Minneapolis in the USA, he spoke at a HIV/AIDS conference. In Japan, he spoke to the Junior Chamber International in 2004, and in Ghana and Israel, he studied the NGO and youth sectors as a recipient of the 2006 National Australia Bank Yahad Scholarship. In 2008, he was invited to co-chair the Australian 2020 Youth Summit.

Hugh's first book, Stone of the Mountain: The Hugh Evans Story, was published in November 2004 and recounts the year he spent living and working in the poverty-ridden communities of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa. Hugh's second book, The Future By Us, was published in March 2009 by Hardie Grant Books.

The Oaktree Foundation

In 2002, Hugh had lived and worked in the HIV/AIDS unusual rural valley communities of KwaZulu-Natal, in South Africa where he came to understand that bringing opportunity and hope to the community could only be achieved through a spirit of partnership. On his return to Australia, Hugh co-founded The Oaktree Foundation, Australia's first entirely youth-run and youth-driven aid and development agency with Nick Mackay, who is now the Director of Key Change Music.

Oaktree aims to allow developing communities through education in a substantial way. Since its inception in 2003, Oaktree has raised more than $1,000,000 for development projects in six countries to provide more than 40,000 young people with increased educational opportunities. The organisation has mobilized over 10,000 young volunteers and supporters across Australia, South Africa, the USA and the UK, run more than 300 conferences and speaking engagements and reached more than 150,000 people.

Young volunteers from Oaktree were the leaders behind the 2006 Make Poverty History Concert in Melbourne.

The Global Poverty Project

Hugh has recently co-founded the Global Poverty Project. The Global Poverty Project seeks to catalyse the international movement to end extreme poverty by increasing the number and effectiveness of people working to end extreme poverty. Using their 90 minute feature slideshow '1.4 Billion Reasons' they communicate the challenges and opportunities of extreme poverty, and what can be done about it. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24415638-5000117,00.html

The Project was Launched in New York at the UN High Level Meeting on the MDGs by Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith, UN Millennium Campaign Director, Salil Shetty and Global Poverty Project Directors, Hugh Evans and Simon Moss.

Cambridge University

Hugh completed a Masters in International Relations as a Monash Scholar at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom in 2010. His study was supervised by Robert Weatherley, a Senior solicitor at the renowned law firm Mills & Reeve LLP.

References

1. ^ [http://www.saxton.com.au/default.asp?sd8=2653 Hugh Evans - He went to Sydney Boys' High School. Hugh was athing for the United Nations Youth Association of Australia's National Youth speech day in 2000. Hugh has also been formally recognized for his awards with the titles Young Victorian of the Year (2003), Young Australian of the Year (2004) and Junior Chamber International Young Person of 'Junior Chamber International Website'
2. Moss, S et al. (2008) 'Oaktree Overview'
3. www.globalpovertyproject.com 'Global Poverty Project Website'
4. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24356842-12332,00.html

External links

• Hugh Evans
• The Oaktree Foundation

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• 1983 births
• Living people
• Australian of the Year Award winners
• Young Australian of the Year Award winners
• Activists from Melbourne
• People educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School