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Julia Gillard

27th Prime Minister of Australia (2010-2013) & First Woman to Hold the Office
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Gender: Female
Nationality: United States
Languages: English
Travels from: United States

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  • Chair of Wellcome Trust, beyondblue, and Inaugural Chair of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at Kings College, London
  • Author of 'My Story', 'Women and Leadership', and 'Not Now, Not Ever'
  • Named to Forbes' "World's Most Powerful Women" List

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27th Prime Minister of Australia, world leader, and acclaimed author Julia Gillard offers fresh insights on geopolitics, the global economy, gender equality, and global health. The first woman to serve as Australia’s Prime Minister, Gillard received worldwide attention for her speech in Parliament on the treatment of women in professional and public life. Gillard is the author of three books: her memoir, My Story, Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons, co-authored by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, which analyzes the influence of gender on women’s access to positions of leadership, and Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech, which explores the history and culture of misogyny and the roadmap for the future.

Gillard is a Distinguished Fellow with the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution in Washington and serves as an Honorary Professor at the University of Adelaide. She currently serves as Chair of beyondblue – one of Australia’s leading mental health awareness bodies, Wellcome – a global charitable foundation which supports science to solve urgent health challenges, and is the inaugural Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership – which is addressing women’s under-representation in leadership through research, practice, and advocacy. She previously led the Global Partnership for Education – the global funding body for education in developing countries. Gillard was appointed to lead South Australia’s Royal Commission into Early Childhood Education and Care.

Named to Forbes list of “The World’s Most Powerful Women,” Gillard’s expertise in leadership, global and mental health, and gender equality has established her a global leader and key voice in today’s most important conversations.

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In this uplifting and informative talk, Julia Gillard balances her personal experience, vast policy expertise, and research-backed strategies for employers and leaders to make a positive impact. Gillard has been candid about her own struggles with anxiety and stress while serving as Australia’s first female Prime Minister and brings much-needed compassion to conversations surrounding mental health. Gillard serves as chair of both beyondblue, Australia’s leading mental health awareness organization, and Wellcome, a global charitable foundation which supports science to solve urgent health challenges such as the effects of mental health issues. Gillard offers a vital perspective on the global, economic, and personal impacts of mental health crises – and what we as individuals and as a society can do to improve care for everyone.

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As the world navigates the continuing health and economic crises, there is an opportunity for governments, the private sector, philanthropy, and communities to seize the moment to create societies that are fairer, greener, and positively globally engaged.

In these illuminating and engaging remarks, 27th Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard dives into how to seize the myriad opportunities of this moment. As a trailblazing world leader, chair of the Global Partnership for Education as well as Wellcome Trust – a foundation that works to improve health through scientific research, Gillard approaches geopolitical crisis from multiple perspectives, providing insights and takeaways tailored to each organization. Ultimately, her remarks serve as a galvanizing call to action.

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Australia’s first woman Prime Minister Julia Gillard now serves as inaugural Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership – which is addressing women’s under-representation in leadership through research, practice, and advocacy. Gillard’s role with the institute is in powerful alignment with her work as Prime Minister and beyond, advocating to break down the barriers to women become leaders while challenging ideas of what leadership looks like.

Gillard also draws on the wisdom shared in Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons, which Gillard co-authored with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. This empowering and uplifting talk leverages Gillard’s vast experience and research-backed perspective for maximum impact with groups of all kinds.

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As Prime Minister, Julia Gillard developed Australia’s landmark policy paper on its role in the Asia Century. Gillard discusses the strategic, economic, and leadership challenges as Asia rises as a global power and the lessons essential to national success in the decades ahead.

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As the Chair of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the world’s only global fund solely dedicated to education in developing countries, Julia Gillard seeks to transform the way the world thinks about– and who has access to– quality education. Reflecting on her work with GPE and tenure as Australia’s Prime Minister, where she put education reform at the top of the agenda,  Gillard discusses why quality education is so crucial to global development, and how it impacts critical issues ranging from climate change to economic stability.

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PM Gillard was absolutely WONDERFUL! She was so personable and insightful and everyone enjoyed hearing her experiences and reflections at both lectures. Her morning lecture was well attended, approximately 450 people that I counted, and there were a large number of students there, which always pleases us ... The evening dinner and keynote address also went splendidly and much of the conversation focused on education. She happily fielded questions until my director was forced to wind it up. I just cannot say enough positive things about the event. We have brought many speakers in the past and it is always such a delight to bring someone who not only has an impressive career but also is down-to-earth and a pleasure to be around.

Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah

The China Day was a great success. Ms. Julia Gillard did a great speech, which helped make the event successful. Her attendance and speech on China Day was widely broadcast in Chinese media and had a very good influence.

China APEC Development Council

The event was a great success—we had an excellent turnout and the PM’s speech was engaging, topical, and well-received. The Australian community in the UAE was particularly interested. PM Gillard was very accommodating with regard to interviews, etc, and agreed to record a short blurb for a video we are producing to commemorate the ECSSR’s 20th anniversary. All in all, we were extremely pleased with the event.

Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research

Fantastic! Everyone loved Prime Minister Gillard.

Broadbent Institute

On behalf of TWFA, our sincere thanks to you for speaking at the TFWA Asia Pacific Conference in Singapore on May 12. We are delighted that you were able to find time in your schedule to address us, and found your address extremely interesting and relevant to our theme. Thank you for helping make our event a great success!

Tax-Free World Association

The lecture went very well and Prime Minister Gillard was like a star that evening. She was very confident, steady and answered very frankly and excellently all the questions from Tim and the audience. We have very good feedback from the audience that they have enjoyed the lecture. Besides the lecture, she was very personable, pleasant, gracious and joyful to be with.

International Institute for Strategic Studies

The opening keynote presentation with Julia Gillard was a winner. Fantastic! Such a great way to start the conference.

International Baccalaureate Organization

I cannot express how important and successful your talk before the Boston College student body turned out. What was particularly notable was your availability to the students. It was good that you did that. You brought out the best in them. Their questions were thoughtful and relevant, but your responses were equally so. It is often that people in the political sphere leave audiences with a political message. You discussed the issues objectively and they appreciated that.

Boston College

Yes, she was fantastic and wonderfully well received! With 432 completed surveys at this point: 90% Excellent. She was great to work with. I have absolutely zero criticism (constructive or otherwise) to provide, and that’s a rare thing. The bar is very high here at The Richmond Forum, and she just sailed right over with ease. If I could book her five times for next season, I would. Also, she did her homework on the Model UN and prepared custom remarks for those student delegates. That care did not go unnoticed by the students. Great, great, great!

The Richmond Forum

Julia Gillard [was] fantastic! The audience had such positive feedback about [her] session... I hope we can work together again in the near future, it was a great experience for me!

Consulting firm for Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi, Qudwa Global Teachers Forum

Geneva was a tremendous success. [PM Gillard] was fantastic. Very well received - amazing really - and wonderful to be around - an incredibly generous woman. I would definitely like to bring her to Boston at some point.

Simmons Leadership Conference

I want you to know how pleased we are to have presented Julia last night. In our view she is rare in many respects including that she delivers a great talk and is genuinely engaged with all the people she meets. Essentially, she "gets it" - in terms of what the organization wants and needs... Our survey responses including comments are very strong...

Guilford College

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Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

This is a barnburning piece of Australian feminist history in the making. MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEAD. Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. The frustration that sexism and misogyny could still be so bad in the twenty-first century. The toll of not pointing it out. On 9 October 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up and proceeded to make all present in Parliament House that day pay attention – and left many of them squirming in their seats. The incisive ‘misogyny speech’, as her words came to be known, continues to energise and motivate women who need to stare down sexism and misogyny in their own lives. With contributions from Mary Beard, Jess Hill, Jennifer Palmieri, Katharine Murphy and members of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, Julia Gillard explores the history and culture of misogyny, tools in the patriarchy’s toolbox, intersectionality, and gender and misogyny in the media and politics. Kathy Lette looks at how the speech has gained a new life on TikTok, as well as inspiring other tributes and hand-made products, and we hear recollections from Wayne Swan, Anne Summers, C ate Blanchett, Brittany Higgins and others of where they were and how they first encountered the speech. While behaviours may have improved since the misogyny speech, there remains a way to go and Julia Gillard explores the roadmap for the future with next-generation feminists Sally Scales, C hanel C ontos and C aitlin Figueiredo to motivate us with that rallying cry: Not now, not ever! Proceeds from the book will go to the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL).

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Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

This is a barnburning piece of Australian feminist history in the making. MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEAD. Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. The frustration that sexism and misogyny could still be so bad in the twenty-first century. The toll of not pointing it out. On 9 October 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard stood up and proceeded to make all present in Parliament House that day pay attention – and left many of them squirming in their seats. The incisive ‘misogyny speech’, as her words came to be known, continues to energise and motivate women who need to stare down sexism and misogyny in their own lives. With contributions from Mary Beard, Jess Hill, Jennifer Palmieri, Katharine Murphy and members of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, Julia Gillard explores the history and culture of misogyny, tools in the patriarchy’s toolbox, intersectionality, and gender and misogyny in the media and politics. Kathy Lette looks at how the speech has gained a new life on TikTok, as well as inspiring other tributes and hand-made products, and we hear recollections from Wayne Swan, Anne Summers, C ate Blanchett, Brittany Higgins and others of where they were and how they first encountered the speech. While behaviours may have improved since the misogyny speech, there remains a way to go and Julia Gillard explores the roadmap for the future with next-generation feminists Sally Scales, C hanel C ontos and C aitlin Figueiredo to motivate us with that rallying cry: Not now, not ever! Proceeds from the book will go to the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL).
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Women and Leadership Real Lives, Real Lessons

A powerful call to action for achieving equality in leadership. Women make up fewer than ten per cent of national leaders worldwide, and behind this eye-opening statistic lies a pattern of unequal access to power. Through conversations with some of the world’s most powerful and interesting women–including Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Michelle Bachelet, and Theresa May–Women and Leadership explores gender bias and asks why there aren’t more women in leadership roles.

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Women and Leadership Real Lives, Real Lessons

A powerful call to action for achieving equality in leadership. Women make up fewer than ten per cent of national leaders worldwide, and behind this eye-opening statistic lies a pattern of unequal access to power. Through conversations with some of the world's most powerful and interesting women--including Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Michelle Bachelet, and Theresa May--Women and Leadership explores gender bias and asks why there aren't more women in leadership roles.
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My Story

On Wednesday, 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day, Julia Gillard became Australia’s twenty-seventh – and first female – prime minister. Australia was alive to the historic possibilities. Here was a new approach for a new time. It was to last three extraordinary years. This is Julia Gillard’s chronicle of that turbulent time, a strikingly candid self-portrait of a political leader seeking to realize her ideals. It is her story of what it was like – in the face of government in-fighting and often hostile media – to: Manage a hung parliament Build a diverse and robust economy Create an equitable and world-class education system Ensure a dignified future for Australians with disabilities And doing this all while meeting international obligations and building strategic alliances for the future. This is a politician driven by a sense of purpose – from campus days with the Australian Union of Students, to a career in the law, to her often gritty, occasionally glittering rise up the ranks of the Australian Labour Party. Julia Gillard does not shy away from her mistakes, admitting freely to errors, misjudgements and policy failures, as well as detailing her political successes. This dazzling memoir is a reflection of what it means – and what it takes – to be a female leader in contemporary politics.

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My Story

On Wednesday, 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a leadership ballot. The next day, Julia Gillard became Australia’s twenty-seventh – and first female – prime minister. Australia was alive to the historic possibilities. Here was a new approach for a new time. It was to last three extraordinary years. This is Julia Gillard’s chronicle of that turbulent time, a strikingly candid self-portrait of a political leader seeking to realize her ideals. It is her story of what it was like – in the face of government in-fighting and often hostile media – to: Manage a hung parliament Build a diverse and robust economy Create an equitable and world-class education system Ensure a dignified future for Australians with disabilities And doing this all while meeting international obligations and building strategic alliances for the future. This is a politician driven by a sense of purpose – from campus days with the Australian Union of Students, to a career in the law, to her often gritty, occasionally glittering rise up the ranks of the Australian Labour Party. Julia Gillard does not shy away from her mistakes, admitting freely to errors, misjudgements and policy failures, as well as detailing her political successes. This dazzling memoir is a reflection of what it means – and what it takes – to be a female leader in contemporary politics.
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