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Alex Varley

Alex Varley is the CEO of Media Access Australia (www.mediaaccess.org.au), a not-for-profit, public benevolent institution that develops and promotes access to media through technology for disadvantaged people.  Its current major areas of focus are captioning and audio description.  MAA emerged from the sale of the commercial operations of the Australian Caption Centre to Red Bee Media.

Since leaving the oil industry in the late 1980s, Varley has had extensive experience in the management of not-for-profit organisations, including senior roles at Sydney Theatre Company and the Australian National Maritime Museum, as well as the Australian Caption Centre.  He is also a director of MARS Inc, a not-for-profit vocational training organisation for people with mental disabilities.

His academic achievements include a business degree and post-graduate qualifications in urban planning, which is surprisingly useful in the world of electronic media!  He has written articles, papers and submissions on a wide range of issues, including petrol pricing, social planning, disability policy and the impacts of media policy on access.

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