Peter Winneke

Peter Winneke, author of Give While You Live, a practical guide to more & better giving in Australia, is a generosity and life legacy advisor with more than 20 years’ experience in strategic, impactful giving – establishing more than 100 philanthropic family foundations and assisting many of these families implement a strategic giving program.

As well as being the inaugural CEO of one of Australia’s largest grantmaking family foundations, Peter has also served Australia’s philanthropy sector with The Myer Foundation, Sidney Myer Fund, The Catherine Freeman Foundation, Philanthropy Australia and the Reichstein Foundation.

Prior to his two decades in the philanthropic sector, Peter spent 16 years’ in the corporate world specialising in insolvency, and mergers and acquisitions. Many years of overseas travel to low-middle income countries during this time developed his passion for philanthropy’s ability to address injustice and create social change.