Ulrike Schuermann 
Director
ulrike@momentumpartnerships.com

Ulrike is the founder and Director of Momentum International Partnership and specialises
in corporate strategy and people engagement. During many years of working with the corporate and civil society sector Ulrike facilitated, designed and implemented program that brought together the public, private and civil society sectors to increase awareness of the interdependence of economic, environmental and social issues.

As an international consultant during the past 6 years Ulrike has advised numerous corporations including AMEX Australia and Telstra.

Ulrike is a social scientist trained at Duesseldorf University in Germany and teaches internationally through the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law on Business and Human Rights, Corporate Social Investment programmes and programmes to assist marginalized groups.

As the Special Project Consultant at Centre for Philanthropy and Social Investment based
at the Swinburne University in Melbourne she designed and delivered the Centre's first corporate social investment course which formed part of its pioneering postgraduate course in 2005 and the Centre’s work has led to the establishment of the Centre for Social Impact based at the UNSW.

Ulrike was the Executive Director of the Australian Youth Foundation (now the Foundation
for Young Australians) from 1993 to April 2001. In that role she developed national
programs and partnerships such as the Rob Riley Scholarships with the Minerals Council
of Australia, the Breakthrough Youth Enterprise projects in partnership with the Sidney Myer Fund and the Bercy Baxter Charitable Trust; and the BYTE Technology program with the Lucent Technology Foundation and the International Youth Foundation which aimed at using technology to close the gap between information rich and poor young people. She continuously sought ways to better involve the business sector in finding solutions for
social problems.