Dr Mark Fowler is a practicing lawyer whose specialist areas of advice include the law applying to schools, international aid organisations, arts and cultural organisations and religious organisations. Mark also has a breadth of experience in property and commercial law, with a particular focus on the affordable, community and social housing sectors. Mark has advised many leading national and international charities across these fields.
Prior to establishing Fowler Charity Law Pty Ltd, Mark was a Partner in leading national charity and not-for-profit law firms located in Sydney and Brisbane.
He is an Appeals Panel member for the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak body for Australian non-government organisations (NGOs) involved in international development and humanitarian action. He is a member of the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission Professional Advisory Group and has served as a member of the Queensland Law Society’s Human Rights Working Group. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, Sydney and a Fellow of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, University of Queensland. He holds a doctorate degree in law conferred by the University of Queensland in 2023.