Peter commenced working with TDA in October 2009. He began his professional career as a high school teacher in Melbourne, Victoria. He then helped form a theatre-in-education company which toured throughout Victoria in the late 1980s.  After a brief period as a community based adult literacy teacher, including a term as President of the national Australian Council for Adult Literacy, Peter joined the NSW TAFE sector in 1991.

Since then he has held a wide range of senior business development and project management roles including national literacy initiatives, access and outreach programs, the NSW LearnScope program, the TAFE NSW Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Training Unit, TAFE Global, the NSW Centre for Learning Innovation and DET International.

Peter has been a guest lecturer at a number of universities, worked closely with industry groups and was a Board member for eleven years at his local community youth association.

His international experience includes eighteen months in Athens, Greece as part of a small team developing workforce training plans and programs for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, five months in the United Arab Emirates managing a school leadership program, and project management roles in PNG, Nigeria and China.

Contact details: 02 9217 3181 or 0405 081 780 or email Peter.Holden@tda.edu.au