Ms Lyndsay Urquhart

Lyndsay is priviliged to be a part of the Koori community and proud to be a descendant of the Aboriginal people/s of South-East NSW.

Lyndsay completed her under-graduate degree in Public Communications at the University of Technology, Sydney in 2007. She was the first University cadet to work at leading Advertising Agency, George and Patterson Young and Rubicam, where she worked full-time during her second year of study.lyndsay

This Cadetship enabled her to take part in an exchange program at the University of Miami in Spring/Summer of 2007 where she furthered her knowledge of the Spanish language and culture, carried out more specialised studies in Communications and Advertising at a leading school and was accepted to study in the post-graduate course: the Nature and Foundation on Entrepreneurship, in preparation for her visit to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues held in New York, which she attended as an observer in 2007.

Before returning to Sydney in September of 2007, Lyndsay joined a group of influential people who were committed to changing the way the perfume, aromatics and cosmetics industry do business with Indigenous and local communities and began working on a business model that would incorporate and promote the collective and individual rights of Indigenous peoples. For this initiative, and the work she has carried out in the greater Sydney region proving her commitment to Reconciliation in Australia, Lyndsay was nominated for a Vice-Chancellor’s Human Rights award and became the Vice Chancellor’s 2007 graduate spokesperson.

Since graduating, Lyndsay has continued her involvement in the international project co-ordinated by the Club Des Entrepreneurs Du Pays De Grasse (the Club of Entrepreneurs in the Region of Grasse, France) which has set out to guide the cosmetics, aromatics and perfume industries on what the next steps are to creating an ethical relationship between Indigenous and Local Community stewards and potential suppliers of natural products to the industry.

This project has seen her represent the Circle at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2008 and attend the Centifolia Congress in France - October of 2008 which became the platform for the official launch of the Natural Resources Stewardship Circle and Declaration.

Current research projects

Contact:

lyndsay.urquhart@aiatsis.gov.au