About

 

Fleur Wood is an entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, former fashion designer, co- founder of the refugee charity Ads-Up and Director of South Pacific Private, Australia’s leading Treatment Center.

Before moving to New York in 2013, she was in the forefront of the Australian fashion industry. She started her eponymous label in 1999, and her collections quickly became known for their distinctive femininity. From 2001-2015, she managed a multi-million dollar private label business with Anthropologie, and in 2011 was named as Myer’s Designer of the Year. In 2010, Myer also licensed the Fleur Wood brand for a diffusion label called 'Fleurette by Fleur Wood'.

Fleur is also the author of two successful books. In 2010, she published the best selling title Food Fashion Friends with Penguin Australia, which Vogue Australia called “the ultimate guide to entertaining..."  Her successful follow-up title Food Fashion Love was released in 2014.

In New York, Fleur Wood co-founded the charity Ads-Up, which helps refugees resettled from Australian detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island get a foothold in America and supports refugees still detained apply for Canadian resettlement.   She has had long-term interest in working with refugees, having spent two years in Dharamshala, India, helping the Tibetan exile government. While there, she set up a school for underprivileged children in that hilltop community. In her home city of Sydney, Fleur was a founding advocate of Human Rights Watch Australia.

In 2019 Fleur was appointed Director of South Pacific Private, Australia’s leading treatment center for addiction, depression, anxiety and trauma, returning after 5 years on the board from 2003-2008. This family business was founded by her parents Bill and Lorraine Wood in 1993. Fleur works closely with the senior management team on communications, business strategy and her vision for inclusive, accessible, leading edge mental health care for all Australians.

Fleur now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, the BBC journalist Nick Bryant, and their three children.

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