Our Board

Ben Hubbard is a self-employed consultant and Non Executive Director.

As well as being a Director of the Y, he is Chair of VicForests and a Director of both the Suburban Rail Loop Authority and the Clifton Hill / North Fitzroy Community Bank.

Ben’s advisory work spans public affairs, public policy, public administration, governance and risk.

He has worked in some of the most challenging and complex policy and political environments of recent times – as Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister, CEO of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority, Chief of Staff to the Deputy PM and Minister for Education and Workplace Relations, and Senior Political Adviser to the Victorian Premier.

Ben holds graduate (BCom) and postgraduate qualifications (MPubPol) from the University of Melbourne, and has completed the AICD Company Directors Course.
Ben is also a Victorian Councillor for the AICD and a Fellow (FAICD) of the Institute.