Lucy Perry

Lucy Perry (born Lucy Schaffler 26 November 1973) is the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sunrise Cambodia and the former CEO of Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia.

Perry was born in 1973 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Perry was married in 1995 and separated in 2015. She has three children.

Perry left school at the age of 17 and worked as a jillaroo. Later, she worked at advertising agency Pilgrim International on cause-related accounts such as Amnesty International and World Vision.

In 2004 she became a doula and began Beer + Bubs, a childbirth support program for men in pubs in Australia.

Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia

Perry began volunteering in communications for Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia in 2004. In 2012, Perry was appointed CEO of a new charitable entity, Hamlin Fistula (Australia) by Dr Catherine Hamlin. In 2015 Perry was asked to step down.

Sunrise Cambodia

In October 2015 Perry was appointed CEO (Australia) of Sunrise Cambodia, a Cambodia-based not-for-profit founded by Geraldine Cox. Cox offered Perry the position the day after appearing on the ABC program Australian Story.

Knox Grammar testimony

In March 2015 Lucy Perry gave evidence against former Knox Grammar headmaster Ian Paterson in the Royal Commission into Institutionalised Responses to Child Sex Abuse. Perry testified that she was indecently assaulted by Paterson while at Roseville College at the age of 15 in 1989. Perry's claims were supported in court the next day by a witness who remained anonymous. Paterson strongly denied the allegation and was supported by another teacher who was present during the rehearsal.

Australian Graphic Awards Design Association

On November 14, 2015 Lucy Perry left an Australian Graphic Awards Design Association (AGDA) award night and tweeted that her reasons for leaving were due to the lack of gender representation at the awards. Perry was later accused of slander and threatened with legal action by AGDA.

"Poverty Porn"

In 2016, under Perry's leadership, Sunrise Cambodia began a controversial fundraising campaign that portrayed a Cambodian child model as an unkempt sex worker. The campaign was denounced by child protection organizations in Australia and Cambodia as being unethical and exploitative, dubbing it "poverty porn". Perry defended the use of the images.

• Cheers to Childbirth published by Pure Publishing (2010)

• 2015 Women's Agenda Emerging Leader in the not-for-profit Sector Award
• Listed in the 2014 world's top 30 #socialceos

• "Welcome to the 2015 NAB Women's Agenda Leadership Awards". Women's Agenda. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 2016-03-17. 
• "The top 30 charity CEOs on social media 2014". Social CEO's. Retrieved 2016-03-17.