Steph Cousins

Founder, CEO

Steph Cousins is the founder and CEO of Skill Path Australia, a not-for-profit initiative supporting refugees to access higher education, training, and professional recognition in Australia.

Skill Path delivers the Refugee Student Settlement Pathway in coordination with the Department of Home Affairs and participating Australian universities.

Prior to founding Skill Path, Steph served as Global CEO of Talent Beyond Boundaries and held leadership roles at Oxfam and Amnesty International. Steph was awarded a Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellowship in 2024 to establish and grow Skill Path, and a Churchill Fellowship in 2017 to research safe pathways for refugees and asylum seekers.