Farah Amiri
Philanthropy Senior Associate
Location
Sydney
Farah is a Philanthropy Senior Associate at Asteri Asset Management, and works closely with Damian Knowlton and Craig Whitfield in Asteri’s Philanthropy and Social Capital team.
Farah is involved in all aspects of the philanthropy team’s activities including helping shape the strategic direction of the team, which aims to provide advice to philanthropic individuals, non-profit and charitable organisations across a range of issues from mission and governance to fundraising and investment advice. Amongst other responsibilities, Farah helps to drive business development activity, support client relationships and organise the many events the team hosts to drive education and capacity-building in the non-profit sector.
Farah has played a leading role in launching Asteri’s community engagement initiative – The Allies Program, and is responsible for its ongoing management. She is also one of the co-founders of Plus One, an initiative to harness the internal training capabilities of corporations in Australia, to offer free professional development to non-profit leaders.
Prior to joining Asteri, Farah spent over 10 years, across 4 continents, in the field of public relations, providing communications advice to a range of companies predominantly in the technology sector, such as Microsoft and IBM. Subsequent to that, Farah founded and ran her own business, an online store, for 7 years.
Farah graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin, USA.
Location
Sydney