Jack Manning Bancroft

Jack Manning Bancroft is the CEO of the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), and has been named in Sydney’s Top 100 Most Influential People. Founding AIME in 2005 to alleviate inequity Jack has led a 20 year movement to establish a global network across 52+ countries to centre imagination, mentoring and custodianship for all of humankind and solve the systemic challenges we’ve inherited to create a healthier life for all species on earth. Awards include being the youngest person in Australian history to receive an Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Australia, being awarded a Human Rights Medal and receiving an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Western Sydney. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University with the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab.

Jack is now one of Australia’s youngest CEOs leading a team of nearly 100 staff across the country. Today, AIME works with over 3,500 Indigenous high school students and 1,250 university students acting as mentors across Australia. He is also the author of Hoodie Economics.

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