Guy Abrahams is Co-founder of CLIMARTE, and Director of the ART + ENVIRONMENT consultancy. Guy was a lawyer before becoming Director of Christine Abrahams Gallery (1987 – 2008). He is an Associate of the University of Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute and a valuer for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.

Past Board positions include City of Melbourne Art & Heritage Collection Advisory Panel (Chair), City of Melbourne Public Art Advisory Panel, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Banksia Environmental Foundation, Jewish Museum of Australia Visual Arts Committee, Australian Commercial Galleries Association (President), National Gallery of Victoria Art Foundation, and the Melbourne Art Fair.

Guy holds a Master of Environment in climate change politics & policy, as well as law and arts degrees. In 2009 he received climate communications training from US Vice President Al Gore. Guy is currently involved in multiple campaigns advocating for urgent action on climate change, including through the arts, as a shareholder activist, and as a citizen of this crazy world.

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