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Morgan Parker is a Australian real estate developer based in Hong Kong and philanthropic adventurer who founded the non-profit organisation Wheel2Wheel. He is head of Taubman Asia, a unit of The Taubman Company LLC

Taubman Centers

Taubman Centers is an owner of United States upscale regional malls and has headquarters in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The Taubman Asia subsidiary is headquartered in Hong Kong. It has the highest selling portfolio of malls in any mall company in the United States.Taubman was founded in 1950 by...

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In 2011, Wheel2Wheel undertook a motorcycle adventure in support of grassroots charities. Parker rode solo from Hong Kong to Brisbane through ten countries, travelling 25,000 kilometres over 125 days to raise money and awareness for ten organisations. The adventure was filmed to become a ten-episode television documentary series.

Parker's charitable work focuses on environmental preservation, access to education for underprivileged children, rights of women subjected to violence, vocational training for youth affected by conflict, social re-assimilation for orphans with HIV/Aids, and cruelty towards animals. Mr. Parker's work with Wheel2Wheel brought greater exposure to Clean Air Network

Clean Air Network

Clean Air Network is an independent non-governmental organization which aims to educate the public about the health impacts of air pollution and mobilize public support for cleaner air in Hong Kong....

, GECKO, Animals Asia Foundation

Animals Asia Foundation

Animals Asia Foundation is a Hong Kong-based charity that seeks to end cruelty to animals in Asia.The AAF was founded in 1998 by Jill Robinson, who felt compelled to create the organisation after learning of the plight of the Asiatic Black Bear known as the “Moon Bear” because of the yellow...

, Child's Dream

Child's Dream

Child's Dream is a non-profit charity organization for helping underprivileged children in the Mekong subregion, incorporated in Canton Zurich, Switzerland, and based in Chiang Mai, Thailand...

, New Hope Cambodia, Baan Gerda

Baan Gerda

BaanGerda is a humanitarian non-profit organization that looks after AIDS orphans in Thailand. It is a project of the Bangkok-based Children's Rights Foundation. The small village community cares for over 70 children that were born with HIV and whose parents died of Aids...

, Women's Aid Organisation, PAN ECO, Action for Change Foundation and NAILSMA.

Morgan Parker grew up in Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Australia. He attended Brisbane Boys' College

Brisbane Boys' College

Brisbane Boys' College , is an independent, Presbyterian and Uniting Church, day and boarding school for boys, located in Toowong, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia....

where he served as school captain in 1991. He was subsequently awarded a scholarship to attend Bond University

Bond University

Bond University is a private university located in Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is also the first private university established in Australia...

and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1994. From 1996 to 2009 Parker worked with Macquarie Bank, Lend Lease, Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....

and Taubman Centers

Taubman Centers

across Asia. He became noted for a rock-star-like appearance and being a thought-leader in the Asian real estate industry. Parker was a board member of the Asia Public Real Estate Association and served on the Asia advisory committee of International Council of Shopping Centers

International Council of Shopping Centers

Founded in 1957, the International Council of Shopping Centers is the global trade association of the shopping center industry. Its 60,000 members in the U.S., Canada and more than 80 other countries include shopping center owners, developers, managers, marketing specialists, investors, lenders,...

. Parker has been featured in over 200 media articles and 20 television segments. Parker speaks regularly at industry conferences.

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