Brandon is the Director of Global Policy and Advocacy at The Fred Hollows Foundation, with more than 20 years’ experience across the health, disability, human rights, and international development sectors.

Brandon is the Director of Global Policy and Advocacy at The Fred Hollows Foundation, with more than 20 years’ experience across the health, disability, human rights, and international development sectors.

For the past 10 years, he has led The Foundation’s global advocacy efforts with multilateral institutions including the World Health Organization and the United Nations, advancing policies that promote equitable access to eye health and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. Previously with the national peak body Vision 2020, Brandon’s responsibilities spanned prevention, early intervention, Indigenous Peoples health, disability and development within the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to that, He also spent eight years in the blindness disability sector promoting the human rights of people who are blind or vision impaired and was recognised with a Victorian Government award in 2014 for his leadership in disability advocacy. Brandon also serves as Regional Chair for the Western Pacific with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, is a Board Director of Vision 2020 and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science (Policy & Research) from RMIT University.