Executive
The Tourism & Transport Forum (TTF) Executive has overall responsibility for the development and implementation of TTF’s policy, public affairs, research and corporate services agenda.
The Executive comprises:
Christopher Brown
Managing Director
Since 1992, Christopher Brown has been Managing Director of TTF. He is also the Founder and Deputy Chair of Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, the national infrastructure group, and Convenor of the Australian Cities Roundtable.
He is President of the UN World Tourism Organisation (Business Council), a Director of Australia’s oldest industry superannuation fund, LUCRF Super, and Chairman of a R.M.Williams / AACo joint venture company. He was the 2000 Olympic Attaché for Botswana, and served an Ambassador for the 2000 Paralympics and the Australian Republican Movement. He has been involved with politics for many years, and has attended two Democratic Party Conventions in the USA and acted as a political lecturer for the NDI in Africa and Asia.
Christopher serves on various government boards, including the Federal Government’s National Long-Term Tourism Strategy Steering Committee and its Infrastructure Security Panel, the NSW Wine Industry Advisory Council, the WA Government's Events Working Group and the Lord Mayor's Sydney Business Forum.
His philanthropic interests are in refugee advocacy, indigenous communities, climate change and spinal injury. He is an AICD Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the Business School at the University of Technology, Sydney, and was recently awarded ‘Future Leader Award’ by the local arm of the Davos/World Economic Forum.
Brett Gale
Executive Director
Brett Gale was appointed Executive Director of TTF in 2009. He has almost twenty years' experience in senior roles comprising: policy, issues management, crisis management, communication and project management in the government, corporate and education sectors.
Before joining TTF, Brett was Chief of Staff to a Cabinet Minister in the Rudd Government. In this position Brett played a key advisory role in shaping the Rudd Government’s economic reform agenda.
Previously he was General Manager Corporate Affairs for NRMA Motoring & Services, Australia’s largest member based organisation. He has worked in politics at both the State and Federal level for many years and played a senior role in organising the Sydney Olympics. Whilst working at Yale University in the United States, Brett established the Office of International Affairs, the first office of its kind at an Ivy League institution.
Brett holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Sydney University and a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University.
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