David Lurie

David holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours). Between 1980 and 1990, David worked as a Merchant Banker, principally in the areas of funding working capital, debt/equity, I.P.O., takeovers, "back door" listings and venture capital transactions. He has worked closely with and within the financial industry and public company sector for 20 years and now specialises in corporate fundraising, corporate restructuring, estate and succession planning and asset protection (especially with respect to intellectual property), insolvency and corporate work out and restructuring strategies.

Due to David's large insolvency practice, he has recently been appointed a member of The Insolvency Practitioner Association of Australia. He works for and in opposition to Administrators, Liquidators and Receivers.

He advises on corporate governance, shareholders, unit holders, beneficiaries and officers rights. He has wide experience in structuring joint ventures and franchise systems, mergers and acquisitions and sophisticated shareholder and unit holder agreements.

David represents shareholders and unit holders as their proxies and attends and advises at directors meetings of major corporations. He works closely with accountants and family lawyers in undertaking forensic analysis to identify and trace assets.

David has an avid interest in world affairs and was the Australian ambassador to the Waldzel Conference on "Blueprints of a Future with Meaning" in Austria. David was so inspired by the topics at this conference that he created, and B2B and Cullen Capital jointly convened with Tel Aviv University and the Steinmetz Peace Centre, an international conference in Israel on "Ethnicity and Nationalism in divided Societies, - Conflict and Accommodation".

David is now working with Paul James, Professor of Globalisation at RMIT and Paul Komesaroff, Professor of Medical Ethics of Monash University on his next project.

A Summit is scheduled in Jordan in December 2009 with the topic of "Pathways to Peace, Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Human Security in Living Communities".

The Summit will be hosted by His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan.

The Summit has eight major areas of interest: "health care and medicine", "the arts and symbolism", "learning and education", "livelihoods and money", "spirituality and celebration", "sport and recreation", "place and environment" and "justice and ethics". The partners to our organisation include government and non-government organisations, academic institutions, professional associations and community based groups. Our patrons are The Reverend Desmond Tutu, The Hon Sir William Deane, Aung San Suu Kyi (not in current communication), President Jose Ramos-Horta, Professor Bernard Lown, Professor Amartya Sen, and Dr Lowitja O'Donaghue.

The summit will help us define a program of ongoing projects in each of the theme areas. We will also use the occasion to inaugurate the Global Reconciliation Forum, which will operate as a living, expanding archive of the world experience of reconciliation, and the Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Fellowship Scheme, a program to provide support to individuals and small groups to make contact and undertake dialogues in specific areas of interest.

Global Reconciliation aims include to benefit the Australian community, by contributing to the development of skills and capacities, fostering community partnerships and solidarity and contributing to global security more broadly. In many cases projects help develop experiences and knowledge that can be brought back to Australia or educational resources and tools to assist others working in similar areas in the future.

Further information Further information about Global Reconciliation and the Pathways to Reconciliation Summit can be found on our websites: