Mike is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is a former legal aid lawyer, co-founder of the Tenants Union of Victoria, senior policy advisor, and human rights and wellbeing researcher. Mike is an advisor to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and the OECD Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies, where he helped set up the OECD Global Progress Research Network. In 2017 he received the international Community Indicators Consortium award for ‘significant long-term impact on the indicators field and the improvement of community conditions and well-being’.