Jan Owen
Jan Owen AM was born in Brisbane, Australia. She has spent twenty-five years growing Australia's youth, social-enterprise and innovation sectors. In 2000, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia. In 2012, she was named overall winner of the inaugural Australian Financial Review Westpac 100 Women of Influence awards. Owen is the author of Every Childhood Lasts a Lifetime and The Future Chasers. She is also the chief executive officer of the Foundation for Young Australians and of YLab, a global youth-futures design and lear/^Nng lab.