Walter has served for 25 years as a full-time community volunteer and social entrepreneur for the City of Wyndham and the western suburbs of Melbourne. He was the City of Wyndham’s Citizen of the Year, and Wyndham Community Engagement Awardee, both in 2015. He was a Finalist for the Victorian Premier’s Volunteer Champions Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Award in 2016, and a Finalist for the Third Sector Australian Volunteer of the Year Award in 2017. He was also awarded the Social Enterprise Champion Award from Social Traders in 2016.

As a community servant, Walter has served as a Deputy Mayor and Councillor for the City of Wyndham, and Portfolio Chair for Future Focused Economy.

He is the founder and president of the Migrant Hub Inc., President of Canopy Accelerator Cooperative Limited, Convenor for WynTree Friends Group and Director/Co-Founder, Australian Council for Multicultural Entrepreneurs.

Walter also served as an Honorary Philippine Investment & Trade Representative from 1998-2002, and was a member of several organisations, including the Ministerial Council for Volunteers (Victoria), North and Western Metropolitan Regional Advisory Council for the Victorian Multicultural Commission from 2012-2016), Rotary Club of Hoppers Crossing, and City West Water Community Liaison Committee in 2008.

Walter is counting on all of us to continue fighting for our progressive agenda. There is only one way we will transform this Western Metropolitan Region – and that is together.