Taylor Hawkins
Focal Lead—Australia

Taylor Hawkins is an award-winning advocate and leadership development specialist focused on future-driven leadership, policy innovation, and intergenerational collaboration. She is the Managing Director of Foundations for Tomorrow, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the protection of future generations’ interests in Australia, which recently spearheaded the introduction of the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill (2025) into Australian Federal Parliament, established the Australian Parliamentary Group for Future Generations, and is the chair of the Intergenerational Fairness Coalition. Taylor also spent two years working as an Advisor to the Our Future Agenda initiative of the United Nations Foundation in the lead-up to the UN Summit of the Future. Additionally, she serves as the youngest member of the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network Advisory Board, the Executive Leadership Team for the global Network of Institutions for Future Generations, and the Global Furtures Council on Human Science of Environmental Action, she is also a member of the FutureGen Advisory Panel for the Municipal Association of Victoria.

Taylor's professional background is rooted in years of leadership development experience, and she currently serves as a Managing Consultant for Leading Initiatives Worldwide. She has designed and facilitated enterprise leadership programs to foster future-driven leadership for organisations like CSIRO, Google, Adidas, and Salesforce, for which her work has been nominated for several industry awards. 

An accomplished speaker, Taylor has spoken at international events such as the United Nations COP26 Climate Conference, Stockholm+50, the Global Parliamentary Congress and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Taylor’s efforts have earned her recognition through various accolades, including Smart Company’s 30 Under 30, the NSW Young Achiever Awards, YAIIA’s Young Women to Watch in International Affairs, the MBAus Social Impact Awards, and the NSW Young Australian of the Year Awards, the Ashoka Together Towards Tomorrow Challenge, and she has also been selected as one of the global 12 Kofi Annan Changemakers.