Ross Piper is the Chief Executive Officer of the Fred Hollows Foundation. In this role he provides global leadership for the Foundation, which has operations in over 25 countries, a global board and entity boards in the USA, UK, Hong Kong and Kenya.

Ross Piper is the Chief Executive Officer of the Fred Hollows Foundation. In this role he provides global leadership for the Foundation, which has operations in over 25 countries, a global board and entity boards in the USA, UK, Hong Kong and Kenya. Prior to his role with the Fred Hollows Foundation, Ross served as the Chief Executive Superannuation at Australian Ethical Investment, overseeing approximately $12bn funds under management on behalf of 130,000 members across Australia.

He has over 30 years of leadership and management experience in corporate and non-profit contexts. He has held senior leadership roles with World Vision International, Macquarie Group and Rio Tinto, working in countries across the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the former Yugoslavia, as well as extensive experience gained living and working in remote Indigenous communities across Australia.

He also has extensive governance experience, including serving as Founding Chair of AgroInvest, a microfinance bank serving rural families in Serbia and Montenegro, and various other boards for organisations focused on impact investing, social enterprise and technology. More recently he served for several years as Chair of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) and Paydock, a UK based payments orchestration business. Ross’ formal qualifications include a BSc (Geophysics), GradDipEd, and MBA (Deakin University).