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Name: Dr Alec Coles OBE
Current title: Chief Executive Officer
Current organisation: Western Australian Museum
Alec Coles is CEO of the Western Australian Museum which has branches in Perth, Fremantle, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Carnarvon, and also works in communities throughout WA.
He led the development of the new WA Museum Boola Bardip, in Perth; a $400 million project, completed in November 2020, a place where Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander People’s voices balance those of others. Coles was also a member of the team that delivered the award-winning National Anzac Centre in Albany.
Coles was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2010 and in 2021, he was named Western Australian of the Year in the Arts and Culture category.
Coles aspires to create museums owned and valued by their communities and admired by the world and spends his spare time exploring the extraordinary landscape and flora of Western Australia, listening to music, and trying to sing like Van Morrison…
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