Australian Animal Rights Crusader

SR No.: 269757
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Author: Philip Wollen
Publisher: Philip Wollen
Total Pages: 6
Language: English
Classification: Article
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Philip Wollen is a global animal-rights crusader, humanitarian activist, philanthropist, and motivational speaker, all in one. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005, "for service to international humanitarian relief and to animal welfare, particularly through the establishment of the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust." He is the winner of the Australian Humanitarian Award 2006 and was Australian of Year (Victoria). 2007. Phil graduated from Bishop Cotton's School in 1967 (Pope House) as a third-generation Cottonian. He is the nephew of Air Marshal MallyWollen (Retired), Old Cottonian and Patron of the General Thimayya Lecture series.
Aged 34, Phil was Vice President of Citibank, the largest financial institution in the world, working in Melbourne, Sydney, Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, London, New York, and Los Angeles. He specialized in Corporate Finance and was rated first among the Top 40 executives in Australia by one of Australia's leading business journals. However, in the early 1990s he gave it all up for his altruistic pursuits, which have earned international acclaim.
He has established a private philanthropic trust called the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust (named after his mother and grandmother) with a view to help needy children and animals. Today, he privately supports 350 humanitarian projects for children, animals and the environment in forty countries - including schools, shelters, sanctuaries, orphanages, clinics, ambulances, bio gas plants and hospitals. One project, Kindness House in Melbourne, is 40,000 square feet and has 300 highly qualified young people doing incredible things for children, refugees, animals, and the environment.
In her review of his work, “Man and his Mission," Australian writer Claudette Vaughan noted, "Some people would nominate Nelson Mandela as the most outstanding person alive. My vote would go to Philip Wollen."
The journal Cry, published in Russian by the Leo Tolstoy Centre of Ethics, celebrated the "Top 100 Vegetarians in World History." Amongst depictions of Aristotle, Buddha, Plato, St. Francis of Assisi, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Einstein, Leo Tolstoy, Pythagoras, Voltaire, Bernard Shaw, Albert Schweitzer, and Leonardo da Vinci, was a picture of Philip Wollen.
The following is an account of his work: "Philip Wollen, Australian Philanthropist, Former VP of Citibank, Makes Blazing Animal Rights Speech"
By Free From Harm Staff Writers June 24, 2012
"Philip Wollen shakes the rafters of the auditorium with this 10-minute speech to the St James Ethics Centre and the Wheeler Centre debate in Australia on May 16, 2012. The larger debate consists of six speakers, three that make the case for getting animals off the menu and three that make the case against it. Wollen is a former VP of Citibank and Australian philanthropist who is known to keep out of the limelight. But he sure rose to the challenge for this debate to deliver a huge performance and a powerful message. Bravo!”