Mark Swivel is a lawyer, strategist and writer.
Mark worked as a senior executive with Barclays Bank company, Firstplus 1999-2003 (Chief Operating Officer Wholesale) and was director of the UK regulatory body FISA (2000-2002). He is now a director of SCU (Sydney Credit Union) and Chair of its Risk Management Committee. Mark has an active interest in microfinance and recently joined the board of the Community Credit Foundation, a Melbourne-based microfinance initiative. He has completed pro bono consulting assignments with JWOC in Cambodia and Trickle Up in New York, along with the Grameen Bank basic training course in Bangladesh. Mark recently completed a Masters in International and Community Development with Deakin University and is preparing articles for publication.
Admitted in 1995, Mark has his own legal practice and unrestricted practising certificate in NSW and was a partner at Langes Lawyers until July 2006. Mark specialises in consumer credit, financial services and APRA prudential standards. He also has expertise in commercial contracts and corporate governance. Mark has degrees in law and arts from Sydney University where he won the JH McClemens Prize for Criminology. After graduation he worked on research projects with the AIDS Council of New South Wales and the University of Technology Sydney.
Mark is also a graduate of the NIDA Playwrights Studio and his new play, Water Falling Down premiered at the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane on 7 April 2011. He also recently became chair of Legs on the Wall, a Sydney based physical theatre company.
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