Steve Pratt - Early Career

Early Career

Steve Pratt spent the late 1990s working for the foreign aid organisation CARE Australia.

Prior to that, Mr Pratt had a 23-year career as a Military Officer in the Infantry of The Australian Army, seeing service throughout the Asia/Pacific region. Steve worked in dangerous front-line locations including Rwanda, Cambodia, Zaire, Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, as well as in Yemen, Jordon and Kenya, managing up to 32 international aid workers and 2000 local staff. In 1993 and 1994 Steve Pratt worked as a senior manager in northern Iraq alongside the UN dealing with the humanitarian problems that followed the Gulf War. He and his colleagues came under fire from Ba’athist Fedayeen as well as religious extremists.

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