Stephen Yarwood - Lord Mayor of Adelaide

Stephen Yarwood was elected Lord Mayor of Adelaide in November 2010.
Stephen was elected to Adelaide City Council in 2007 and was Deputy Lord Mayor in 2009 and the Chairman of the South Australian State/Local Government Climate Change Steering Committee.
Stephen's professional goal is to be a leading futurist creating positive local and global futures; his personal interests include photographic art, cities, food, culture, technology, music and the arts.
He has a degree in Town Planning and Graduate Diplomas in Urban Planning and Environmental Studies. He is a Masters of Business Administration student at Adelaide University, has studied future cities in Japan's technology city Tsukuba and researched and/or lectured in Australia, the USA, Canada, New Zealand, India, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines on environment, development planning and future cities.
He has worked in State Government as a Strategic Planner, in the South Australian Parliament as an environment, resources and development researcher and was the Principal Planner at the City of Playford for 6 years. He is a strong advocate for modernising the city, walking/cycling & electric cars, increasing the city population, the arts and multiculturalism.
His major achievements on council have been to become the first paperless/digital elected member in Australia, facilitate substantial corporation carbon emission reductions and make Adelaide the 1st Fair Trade Capital City in Australia.

Stephen spoke at the...   AEVA (Adelaide) meeting: 
                            
                           
Wednesday 26th May 2010, 7:30pm
                            
                      Topic:   "How EV's Will Change Adelaide"
                            
                                  
Venue: "The Brunswick" Hotel,
                              207 Gilbert St. Adelaide, SA 5000
                                    (Upstairs Function Room)

 

Blog:    http://stephenyarwood.blogspot.com/                                                   Australian Electric Vehicle Association (Adelaide)

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