Stephen Killelea AM is an Australian IT entrepreneur[8] and founder of the Institute for Economics and Peace, a global think tank.

The company's main business is providing its PROGNOSIS performance monitoring software for business-critical computing and IP telephony environments used by corporations such as Visa, MasterCard and American Express; the New York, London and Hong Kong stock exchanges; and most of the world's ATMs.

[citation needed] Killelea set up The Charitable Foundation (TCF) in 2000, one of Australia's biggest private overseas aid providers, spending over A$5 million in 2008.

[8] He sits on the advisory board of the Washington DC–based Alliance for Peacebuilding, is a member of the Presidents Circle of the Club of Madrid, and is the Treasurer of Religions for Peace.

[15] In June 2010, Killelea was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to the community through the global peace movement and the provision of humanitarian aid to the developing world.