John Gagliardi (Australian)
- For other persons of the same name, see John Gagliardi (disambiguation)
John Gagliardi, is an Australian journalist, businessman, author and lobbyist.
Gagliardi is a senior executive with US based nutritional supplements company Pharez Inc.
In 1995, Gagliardi was the founder of the conservative political lobby groups, Australian Christian Coalition and later the Australian Christian Lobby.
Gagliardi was founding Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Christian Outreach Centre's Christian Heritage College in Brisbane, Queensland, established in 1986.
During his media career, Galiardi was the editor of the Townsville Bulletin; Chief of Staff of National Nine TV News in Brisbane and Assistant Features Editor of The Telegraph which was for many years Brisbane's afternoon tabloid.
He was the winner of the University of Queensland Journalism Prize in 1996 for completing his Journalism Major with the highest grade point average.[1]