Ben Southall

Ben Southall is an Adventurepreneur best known for winning Tourism Queensland’s ‘Best Job in the World’ in 2009 to become the Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Since then, he’s kayaked the length of the Great Barrier Reef, set world records running up mountains in Australia and New Zealand, and driven his faithful old Land Rover, Colonel Mustard around Africa and from Singapore to London. Today Ben is the founder of Best Life Adventures - an adventure travel company, that takes adventurous minds to some of the most extreme wilderness areas on the planet and works closely with Advance Queensland’s - Office of the Chief Entrepreneur - to build the resilience and networks of the state’s start-up community member of the New York team.