Camilla Schippa

CEO, The Social Outfit

Sydney

Camilla Schippa is the CEO of one of Australia’s most creative and celebrated social enterprises, The Social Outfit. The Social Outfit is a fashion label with a difference, created to provide employment and training in the fashion industry to people from refugee and new migrant communities. Camilla not only leads all of The Social Outfit’s operations, she also supports her employees by mentoring and guiding them to better integrate in Australia.

Prior to leading The Social Outfit, Camilla was the founding Director of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). For over 10 years she was responsible for managing IEP's research agenda, vast communication campaigns, fundraising and management processes from its start-up phase in 2009 until May 2018. Camilla led the yearly development of the Global Peace Index and the Global Terrorism Index and the establishment of IEP’s offices in Australia, North America and Europe.

Before joining IEP, Camilla held senior positions at the United Nations Secretariat for over a decade. Until 2008, she was Chief of the UN Office for Partnerships, within the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General. She also led the United Nation’s work in the area of Sport for Development & Peace and was part of the teams responsible for setting up the UN Global Compact and the UN Peacebuilding Support Office.

Camilla lives in Sydney with her husband and two teenage children. She is a Swedish/Italian national.