Executive Director and CEO, Community Sector Innovation (CSB’s Business Development Unit), Australia

Peter has worked in the Community Sector for over 25 years. He has been CEO of two community-based employment services providers (Enterprise and Training Company of Coffs Harbour and Access Community Group in Wollongong). Peter was also instrumental in the foundation of both Community Sector Banking and Australia’s first Regional Superannuation Fund.

He is currently Deputy Chair of Jobs Australia Ltd, and is a Director of the Jobs Australia Foundation. Peter also serves on a number of other boards at both a national and international level. These include: Community 21 Ltd; Illawarra Disability Trust; Access Community Group Ltd; Community Fleet Services; 4th Sector Enterprises Pty Ltd; INAISE (International Association of Investors in the Social Economy) and RIPESS (International Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy). Peter is President of COMMACT Australia and was a founding director of Community Sector Enterprises Pty Ltd and Community Sector Banking Pty Ltd (2002 – 2009). During 2005, Peter addressed a session on social banking at the World Social Forum at Porto Allegre in Brazil and to an international meeting of the Commonwealth Association for Local Action and Economic Development (COMMACT) held in Liverpool UK. He has also participated in another international COMMACT meeting held in Mumbai India in 2005. In November 2006, Peter attended the Summit on Social Solidarity Economy in Montreal. In June 2008, Peter was elected to the Board of INAISE while attending the World Social Finance Summit held in Quebec.

See Peter Quarmby’s presentation from the 2010 CED Conference here