Draft:Catherine Fritz-Kalish

Catherine Fritz-Kalish (born 5 December 1973) is the co-founder and managing director of the Australian think tank Global Access Partners (GAP).

She is a board member of several commercial and not-for-profit organisations, including the Fritz Family Office, ; the Fritz Family Foundation, ; and Huddle, a consulting firm that specialises in human-centered change management.

International activities
She is also a Director of the International Centre for Democratic Partnerships (ICDP), a non-political organisation established in 2017 which currently implements the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Pacific Connect programme. She is also Director of the ICDP Foundation, which supports projects in education, cultural preservation, health and the natural environment in the Pacific.

She was part of Australia’s trade mission to Israel in 2016 led by Lucy Turnbull AO and a member of the CSIRO/NAB Australian National Outlook 2060’s in 2018-19.

Philanthropy
She co-founded Thread Together which provides brand new clothing to disadvantaged communities across Australia. She sits on the boards of social justice charity Stand Up and is a member of the advisory board for the Social Impact Hub. She is also part of a significant giving circle which engages whole families in the act of giving to those in need.

She is a mentor for women (Pacific Connect, The Susan Wakil Fellowship student leadership program), a regular blogger on Open Forum (Australia), and has co-authored several articles on the ‘Second Track’ process and methodology.

Selected publications

 * Emergent communities of practice: A complexity theory lens – Dr Peter Massingham, Catherine Fritz-Kalish, Ian McAuley, BESS, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2020, https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/BESS/article/view/6448
 * Twenty years on the Second Track: GAP case studies – Catherine Fritz-Kalish, Journal of Behavioural Economics and Social Systems (BESS) vol. 1, no. 1, August 2019, https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/BESS/article/view/6454