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Charles Lane
Dr Charles Robert Lane (born 1948 Melbourne, Australia) is a social researcher, author, adviser, consultant, and company director.

Background
Charles matriculated in 1966 at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. He later worked at George Patterson Advertising in Melbourne. He was a professional sportsman between 1968 (Victorian Football League) and 1969-1970 (Western Australian Football League) before going to study in England.

While abroad he attained undergraduate diplomas (Dip.Agric. & Advanced Farm Management) at the Royal Agricultural University (then College), and post-graduate degrees (MSc. University of Reading, and DPhil. University of Sussex). While there he gained experience working in agriculture, natural sciences, conservation, community development, human rights, development aid, social research, and philanthropic fields.

In 1975, he volunteered for two years with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) as an Agricultural Extension Officer with Catholic Relief Services in Tanzania. He was later appointed Oxfam Field Director for Tanzania from 1980 to 1985. He spent two years between 1987-88 doing field research for his doctorate with a group of Barabaig pastoralists in Tanzania. During that time, he raised funding for his research by working as an occasional safari guide with Lost Horizons Safaris in Arusha. Background Charles matriculated in 1966 at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. He later worked at George Patterson Advertising in Melbourne. He was a professional sportsman between 1968 (Victorian Football League) and 1969-1970 (Western Australian Football League) before going to study in England.

While abroad he attained undergraduate diplomas (Dip.Agric. & Advanced Farm Management) at the Royal Agricultural University (then College), and post-graduate degrees (MSc. University of Reading, and DPhil. University of Sussex). While there he gained experience working in agriculture, natural sciences, conservation, community development, human rights, development aid, social research, and philanthropic fields.

In 1975, he volunteered for two years with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) as an Agricultural Extension Officer with Catholic Relief Services in Tanzania. He was later appointed Oxfam Field Director for Tanzania from 1980 to 1985. He spent two years between 1987-88 doing field research for his doctorate with a group of Barabaig pastoralists in Tanzania. During that time, he raised funding for his research by working as an occasional safari guide with Lost Horizons Safaris in Arusha.

Contributions
In the UK, Charles was an International Consultant and Senior Research Associate at the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) between 1987 and 1997. He consulted to numerous national and international NGOs, bilateral and multilateral agencies on issues of community development, conservation, communal lands ecology and cultural rights. He designed for Survival International a program in support of land rights for African pastoralists, advised Band Aid on its grant making, and was a member of the Comic Relief Africa Grants Committee 1990-92.

On returning to Australia in 1999, Charles was appointed Chief Executive Officer of The Myer Foundation and Sydney Myer Fund until 2004. In that role, he was a Member of the Management Advisory Board of CSIRO’s The Nature and Value of Australia’s Ecosystem Services project, and the Governing Council of the Asia Pacific Philanthropic Consortium (APPC). He was also a founding Director of Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships (IEP) in Cape York (now Jawun Indigenous Corporate Partnerships).

From 2004 to 2007 Charles was Executive Director and Head of Division of Community Strengthening and Volunteering in the Department for Victorian Communities. In that capacity, he became a founding Director of Melbourne Cares. After leaving the Department, he became Convener of the National Parks Advisory Council, Deputy Chairman of Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES), Director of Andyinc Foundation, and a Director of Northern Indigenous Environmental Services Limited.

Charles is currently Chairman of Nokila Holdings Pty Ltd., Board Member of Global Reconciliation and Chair of the Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Fellowship scheme, a Director of the Wise Foundation, and a Member of the Advisory Board of Queensland University of Technology’s Australian Centre for Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies. He is a Financial Administrator appointed by the Victorian Civil and Administration Tribunal (VCAT).

Publications
Charles has authored three books,, and.

He has also contributed chapters to The State Strikes Back: extinguishing customary rights to land in Tanzania in Veber, H., Dahl, J., Wilson, F., & Wæhle, E. “Never Drink From The Same Cup”, IWGIA / CDR Copenhagen.

He reconnoitred for BBC documentary Why are People So Damn Poor? (1991), and wrote and narrated the BBC film The Price of Conservation (1999).

Personal Life
Married to Jane_Tewson Father to Sarah Lane-Smith, Charles Lane and Sam Lane