ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY
Peter’s career has many highlights including his
support for the award-winning Knox Innovation
HONORARY AWARD – AGENT OF
Opportunity and Sustainability Centre - Trade
CHANGE
Training Centre (KIOSC). This has been the model
for the Victorian Government Tech School initiative
WINNER
PETER CHAFFEY which will see an investment of $128 million to
construct and establish 10 Tech Schools across
the state with further ongoing funding to support
With a career
operation.
spanning
more than 35
Peter has also been a driving force in facilitating
years, Peter is
the collaboration of Knox, Maroondah and Yarra
a pioneer in
Ranges Councils and Melbourne East RDA around
Economic
the Bayswater Business Precinct Partnership
Development
which has resulted in investment and within the
and has been
Industrial precinct.
instrumental
in shaping the
Recently moving from Coordinator Economic
way the
Development at Knox Council into a new role
discipline is
as Partnerships and Investment Advisor, Peter
thought about
continues to provide strategic economic analysis
and applied in
and advice to advance city investment.
Australia.
“Peter is
the Godfather of economic development” – Peter
Dooling (Commissioner, Geelong City Council).
Peter was instrumental in the establishment of
Economic Development Australia (EDA). He was a
driving force, founding member and past president
of the Association of Development Executives
Victoria (ADEV), established in 1984 to recognise
the work and raise the profile and importance of
economic development practitioners throughout
Victoria. ADEV