Alexander White Email and Phone Number

Alex is a leading thinker on communications, campaigning, strategy and digital innovation within the Australian labour movement. From 2024, Alex has served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Victorian Minister for Skills, TAFE and Regional Development.As Director Growth from 2020 to 2023 at the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Alex was responsible for brand, strategic communications and marketing, digital product and service development, marketing insights, and sales and support. He led a high-performing, diverse team of 30+ people. Alex's growth strategies and execution recruited tens of thousands of workers to their union via digital and direct channels.From 2014-2020, he was Secretary of UnionsACT, where he represented 33,000 union members and led on policy development and public relations. He also served on a range of representative committees, boards and councils, including the ACT Work Safety Council. Alex was a member of the ACTU Executive from 2014-20, and has held a number of board positions on ACT Government councils and ACT community community groups. He was a board member of Greenpeace Australia-Pacific from 2013-2016 and of The Wilderness Society (Victoria) from 2012-2014.Before leading UnionsACT, Alex was Campaigns Director for Environment Victoria, worked at Slater & Gordon Lawyers in a national marketing role, Inclusion Melbourne, the National Tertiary Education Union, and the LHMU (now United Workers Union). In 2012 Alex was an organising fellow with the Obama for America presidential campaign based in Boston, Massachusetts. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree and a Masters of Public Policy focusing on climate change and economics from the University of Melbourne. He has postgraduate certificates in Management from the Melbourne Business School and the University of Melbourne Faculty of Economics & Management.Alex wrote a weekly column, called Southern Crossroads, for The Guardian UK, focusing on climate change.