Nationality Australian Name Steve Killelea | Role Entrepreneur | |
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Occupation EntrepreneurVenture capitalist Employer Founder and chairman, Integrated ResearchFounder and former chairman, Smarter CapitalFounder, Global Peace IndexFounder and chairman, Institute for Economics and Peace | ||
Global peace index by steve killelea a m
Stephen (Steve) Killelea AM is an Australian IT entrepreneur and the founder of the global think tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace. He began his career, after doing a crash course in computing and working for a computer manufacturer, by developing a product for computer systems management that became internationally successful and led him to set up a US company, Software Products, that went public.
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- Global peace index by steve killelea a m
- Gov 2 0 summit 2010 ory okolloh clare lockhart steve killelea making states work better
- Career
- Honors and awards
- Publications
- References
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Career
In August 1988, Killelea formed the Australian company Integrated Research, which was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 2000. The company's main business is providing its PROGNOSIS performance monitoring software for business-critical computing and IP telephony environments used by corporations such as Visa, MasterCard and American Express; the New York, London and Hong Kong stock exchanges; and most of the world's ATMs. Having stepped down as chief executive November 2004, he is still chairman of the company that now branches into the field of internet telephony. Killelea also has an IT venture capital fund named Smarter Capital, which is one of the investors behind Australian software firm Emagine International.
He set up The Charitable Foundation (TCF) in 2000, TCF is one of Australia's biggest private overseas aid providers, spending over five million A$ in 2008. TCF is active in East and Central Africa and parts of Asia.
Killelea is the creative force behind the Global Peace Index study, launched in May 2007, that ranks the world's nations’ and regions’ peacefulness. The Index is endorsed by the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter amongst others. He is the founder of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) which is "analysing the impact of peace on sustainability, defining the 'Peace Industry', estimating the value of peace to the world economy, and uncovering the social structures and social attitudes that are at the core of peaceful societies". In 2013, Steve Killelea’s founding of IEP was recognized as one of the 50 most impactful philanthropic gifts in Australia’s history by a coalition including the Myer Family Company, The Myer Foundation and Sidney Myer Fund, Pro Bono Australia, Swinburne University and Philanthropy Australia. He is also notable as being Australia's largest individual donor to overseas aid. He sits on the advisory board of the Washington DC based Alliance for Peacebuilding and is a member of the Presidents Circle of the Club of Madrid.
In 2008, Killelea was the producer and chief financier for the documentary Soldiers of Peace, which was shown at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where it received The Club of Budapest World Ethic Film Award. The documentary also won Best Feature Film at the Monaco International Film Festival.
Honors and awards
In 2003, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) nominated Steve Killelea's, then privately owned software company Integrated Research, for the 2003 Asian-Oceanian Computer Industry Organisation (ASOCIO) ICT awards. The company received two AIIA iAwards this year, the iNTERNATIONAL award for ICT Exporters and the iNSPIRATION award, the Australian ICT Minister's Award for Excellence.
In 2008, Steve Killelea was awarded Priyadarshni Global Award- a prestigious Indian award for valuable contributions towards society. The same year he was awarded the Phelophepa Award for Excellence from Desmond Tutu – for his commitment to African development.
In June 2010, Steve Killelea was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to the community through the global peace movement and the provision of humanitarian aid to the developing world. In 2013 he was nominated one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in Armed Violence Reduction” by the UK group Action on Armed Violence. In 2015, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Steve was awarded the Luxembourg Peace Prize Award for Outstanding Peace Technology in 2016.