“I am pleased to partner with the Larita Academy, because the beliefs of the Academy go to the heart of the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS) opportunity that our students and families choose when they come to Melbourne. We believe that “you can’t be what you can’t see”, we believe in the power of positive role modelling, and we believe in personal agency for our students. Through the Larita Academy, our students will continue to experience the transformational power of these things, leading to brilliant futures.”
Edward is the founding CEO of Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS), where he has led the establishment, strategic direction, and growth of the organisation. Prior to MITS, Edward was a mergers & acquisitions lawyer with law firm King & Wood Mallesons, where he completed secondments to KWM’s Beijing office and to Leighton Holdings.
Edward is a 2017 Churchill Fellow, having studied organisations supporting the transition of young Indigenous people into mainstream educational opportunities across New Zealand, Canada, the USA and Finland. In 2019 he attended Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management as a Harvard Club of Victoria Non-Profit Fellow and in 2021 he completed the McKinsey & Company Executive Leadership Program as a Not-for-Profit scholarship recipient.
Edward graduated from the University of Melbourne with a combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Hons). He is a Director of MITS and the Jack Brockhoff Foundation, and a Victorian Selection Panel Member for the Churchill Fellowships.