About Swivel

Mark Swivel is a lawyer, problem solving consultant and budding social entrepreneur.

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 is exploring a social business focussed on investment in Asia-Pacific MFIs. He has completed pro bono consulting assignments with JWOC in Cambodia and Trickle Up in New York. He is currently completing a Masters in International and Community Development with Deakin University.

Admitted in 1995, Mark has an unrestricted practising certificate in NSW and was a partner at Langes Lawyers until July 2006. Mark has specialised 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 has a new play, Water Falling Down, in Playwriting Australia’s National Play Festival
in Brisbane 8 to 21 February 2010.

In 2007, Mark took a show Jeremy Boutsakis Thought Leader to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — a parody of conferencing and gurus of all stripes.

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