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Dame Meg Taylor (Former Secretary General at Pacific Islands Forum)

Dame Meg Taylor

Former Secretary General at Pacific Islands Forum

Dame Meg Taylor is a Papua New Guinean citizen of the Blue Pacific, who has served in many roles at national, regional and international level including as the first female Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum where she led collective action towards the articulation of the Blue Pacific narrative. She is currently based in Papua New Guinea where she serves on the Board of Nambawan Super and the PNG Sustainable Development Program. She is a member of the International Advisory Panel for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and an Advisor to Blue Ocean Law. Dame Meg has an LL.B. from Melbourne University and an LL.M. from Harvard University.

Stefan Armbruster (Journalist)

Stefan Armbruster

Journalist

Stefan Armbruster is an award-winning correspondent with more than 30 years of reporting experience in Australia and overseas. His coverage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait, multicultural, and Pacific affairs has been recognised with numerous journalism awards including from the Australian Human Rights Commission, UNAA , Queensland Clarions. He is a Colombia University Dart Centre Asia-Pacific fellow and a Walkley Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism recipient in 2023.

A delegate with Australian journalists’ union MEAA for more than a decade, he advocates for media freedom and media workers' rights. Stefan mentors and trains students and journalists, including in the Pacific with ABC Pacmas, and produces and delivers regional journalism workshops and forums.

He began as a broadcaster at Brisbane public radio 4ZZZ-FM in 1988. A DFAT -funded journalism attachment in 1994 at the Fiji Broadcasting Commission ( FBC ) established his ongoing connections with the Pacific region.

During almost a decade based in London he was a journalist and senior producer at BBC Radio 4’s flagship ‘Today’ current affairs program, the World Service and then ground-breaking News Online platform, as well as reporting and producing for Dow Jones and CNBC .

Returning to Australia in 2003, he was a senior producer at ABC News Online before becoming SBS World News’ Brisbane-based correspondent, covering Queensland and the Pacific region.