Nick Grono

Nick Grono is an Australian human rights campaigner, working to end modern slavery and human trafficking and other egregious human rights abuses. He is CEO of the Freedom Fund, a leader in the global movement to end modern slavery.

Nick has twenty years of leadership experience of US and international nonprofits, and another decade before that working in corporate law, government, and investment banking. His past roles include CEO of the Walk Free Foundation, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group, and Chief of Staff and National Security Adviser to the Australian Attorney-General. He has served on many nonprofit boards and currently is a member of the advisory council of Global Witness. He writes and speaks regularly on nonprofit leadership and coaches a number of nonprofit CEOs.

Nick has briefed the United Nations Security Council and testified before parliamentary committees in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands. He has appeared on national and international tv and radio shows, and written for various international publications, including the New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Nick spent a number of years in his early life sailing around the world in a 100-year-old square-rigged sailing ship with his family and other crew members. He is Australian by birth, picked up Belgian and UK nationalities along the way, and is now lives between London and Brussels. Nick’s book on nonprofit leadership, How to Lead Nonprofits: Turning Purpose Into Impact to Change the World will be published on 16 July 2024.