Brandon Gien is the CEO of Good Design Australia, Chair of the Australian Good Design Awards, and Deputy Chair of the Australian Design Council. He has spent the past 25 years passionately advocating for the value of good design to improve our social, economic, cultural and environmental quality of life. He is a Senator of the World Design Organization (WDO), the first Australian to hold this position. Brandon has a degree in Industrial Design and holds a Ph.D in Environmental Design from the University of Canberra's School of Design and Architecture. He is an Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at both the University of Canberra and the University of New South Wales.