Dr Mark Timlin manages the Christian-based charity HOPE worldwide Australia, with a focus on international aid and working with vulnerable groups such as seniors and asylum seekers in Australia.

Mark also works as a General practitioner in Refugee Health, Adolescent Mental Health and Prison Medicine. He has extensive experience working overseas in the NGO sector.

Mark and his wife Vicki moved to Afghanistan in early 2001 and set up humanitarian programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan over a period of 5 years. During this time, he chaired the National Health Sector Coordination Group with responsibility for promoting coordination between NGOs and the Ministry of Health.

In 2004 Mark was awarded an MBE by the late Queen Elizabeth II for services to health care and education in Afghanistan.

In 2005, with growing security concerns and a second child on the way, Mark and Vicki moved from Afghanistan to Melbourne where they now live. Mark started working in ED at St Vincent’s Hospital for a few years before moving into General Practice.

He completed his Masters Degree in Public Health in 2010 and continued his work with international aid, developing humanitarian programs in Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

He has been married to Vicki for 25 years and has three children, aged 19, 17 and 15.