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Speakers

Howard Bamsey
Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment and Heritage and head of the Australian Greenhouse Office

Howard Bamsey is a Deputy Secretary in the Department of the Environment and Heritage and head of the Australian Greenhouse Office, which he joined in July 2002. He also has responsibility for International Whaling Commission affairs and oversight of Antarctic matters. He spent over twenty years in the Australian foreign service. He served in the main United Nations centres of New York, Geneva and Vienna as well as other capitals. His positions included Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and Ambassador for the Environment.

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Mark Bartley
Partner and National Water Practice Leader

Mark Bartley has undertaken extensive research and advised on aspects of water regulatory frameworks/water access entitlements. Work undertaken on a national basis by Phillips Fox and QUT, culminating in the publication of the Trading in Water Rights report, together with subsequent work identifying a set of arrangements for optimal implementation of the NWI, and recent reviews of state legislation, has given him a particular insight into the problems and issues with water regulatory frameworks/water access entitlements nationally.
Mark has also advised water authorities and other parties on aspects of the water regulatory frameworks/water access entitlements, including the rights and liabilities under existing arrangements and opportunities for improvements to achieve the objectives of the Victorian Government's White Paper, Our Water - Our Future, as well as the National Water Initiative.
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Richard (Rick) Bradley
Head, Energy Efficiency and Environment Division,
International Energy Agency (IEA)

Dr Bradley has been the head of IEA’s Paris-based Energy Efficiency and Environment Division (EED) since January 2004. The EED provides analytical support to the IEA Standing Group on Long Term Co-operation and to the Annex I Experts Group on a range of climate change policy issues. For many years, Dr Bradley represented the United States as senior negotiator on multilateral energy and environment agreements. He is also a former Chair
of the OECD/IEA Annex I Group of Experts. He has written a number of articles on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Martin Brennan
Executive Manager, Partnerships and Political Support for the ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability Australia - New Zealand (ICLEI ANZ)

He has been responsible foe the recruitment of councils to the Cities for Climate Protection program and the Water Campaign and assisted in the development and roll out of ICLEI A/NZ’s Local Agenda 21 program – TBL - Delivering Sustainability.

Martin is a former Melbourne City Councillor and was Chair of the Finance, Corporate Services and Governance Committee (1999-2001). He served on Council for three terms. Martin previously worked for the Australian Local Government Association supporting regional cooperation among councils before taking up the position with ICLEI in 1998. Prior to working in local government Martin was involved in community arts and education and was a Ministerial advisor in the Cain and Kirner Victorian governments.

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Senator The Hon Ian Campbell
Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Government of Western Australia

Senator Ian Campbell entered Parliament as Senator for Western Australia on May 6, 1990, aged 30. He was subsequently re-elected in March 1993, October 1998 and October 2004.

Senator Campbell was appointed to his present role as Minister for the Environment and Heritage on 18 July 2004.

He was previously the Minister for Local Government, Territories & Roads and Manager of Government Business in the Senate and has been a member of the Parliamentary Business Committee of Cabinet since November 1996.

Senator Campbell has been a passionate contributor to the development of policies regarding privatisation and market liberalisation for more than 20 years.

After the re-election of the Howard Government in November 2001, Senator Campbell was appointed as
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer. His responsibilities included financial services and regulation policy, competition and consumer issues, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Foreign Investment Review Board.
In previous Howard Ministries, Senator Campbell has been Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and Arts.
Senator Campbell represented Australia at the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington in 2002 and 2003.

Before entering politics he worked in commercial real estate in Perth as manager of commercial and industrial leasing at Colliers and as a director of LJ Hooker International.

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Tom Campbell
Managing Director Smelting (New Zealand and the United Kingdom), Comalco Aluminium Limited

Tom is responsible for New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited (NZAS) and Anglesey Aluminium Metal Limited. Previously Tom was Chief Operating Officer for Comalco New Zealand and he has also held the position of General Manager Operations at NZAS. Tom’s earlier roles have included General Manager of Southern Copper (Australia) and CRA Research & Technology and Managing Director of Anglesey Aluminium Metal Limited.
Born in Scotland, Tom gained a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy from Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Following nine years with the British Steel Corporation, Tom emigrated to New Zealand in 1981 with his wife and two children (a third was born in Invercargill in 1983).

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Hon Bob Carr
Chair, Advisory Committee, Climate Institute (Australia) and former Premier New South Wales

Bob Carr was educated at the University of New South Wales (NSW) and was a journalist before being elected to the NSW Parliament in 1983.

Carr was Minister for Planning and Environment 1984-88. He was then elected Leader of the Opposition after a massive defeat in 1988. He returned to government in 1995 and was re-elected with landslide wins in 1999 and again in 2003.

Key achievements since 1995 include:

• strict greenhouse emission benchmark laws in NSW and a new state Greenhouse Office;
• the creation of more than 350 new national parks;
• staging the “best ever” Olympic Games in 2000 and Rugby World Cup in 2003;
• major educational reforms including a stronger focus on literacy;
  the nation’s first apology to the Aboriginal people’s Stolen Generation;
• innovative drug treatment programs including Australia’s only medically supervised heroin injecting centre;
• new rules to safeguard and fund stem cell research;
• and the biggest reform to Australian tort law in 70 years.

Forbes magazine has called Carr a “dragon slayer” for his landmark tort law reforms. The leading national news magazine in Canada, Macleans, describes him as: “an erudite, serious, thoughtful, successful politician.”

Awards received by Carr include the 1998 World Conservation Union International Parks Merit Award and a 1999 Fulbright Distinguished Fellow Award for a significant contribution to Australian-American relations.

Carr is also a member of the International Climate Change Taskforce, the body created to advise UK Prime Minister Tony Blair on strategies to achieve an effective worldwide response to global warming once the Kyoto compliance period ends in 2012.

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David Walter Chomiak
Minister of Energy, Science and Technology, Minister charged with the administration of The Gaming Control Act, Minister charged with the administration of The Manitoba Hydro Act, MLA for Kildonan

On October 12, 2004, Dave Chomiak was appointed Minister of Energy Science and Technology; Minister charged with the administration of The Gaming Control Act and Minister charged with the administration of The Manitoba Hydro Act.

In 2002, Manitoba Premier Gary Doer established the Department of Energy, Science and Technology to provide leadership in clean energy development and climate change policy.

The Minister and the Department have facilitated a rapid expansion of the clean energy industry in Manitoba. Key areas of development include: wind power, bio fuels (ethanol and bio-diesel) geo-thermal heating and cooling systems, and hydro electric generation and transmission.

Manitoba recently received top ranking among provincial governments for its initiatives to increase energy efficiency and conservation. Manitoba has also won accolades for its Climate Change Plan, both nationally and internationally. Most recently, Minister Chomiak launched a “Green and Growing” Sustainable Economic Development Strategy for the Province.

Mr. Chomiak served as Minister of Health from 1999 to 2004, making him Canada’s longest-serving Health Minister. As an opposition member of the legislature, he acted as the New Democratic Party Critic for Health as well as Critic for Education and Justice. He first won election in 1990 as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Kildonan, subsequently winning re-election in 1995, 1999 and 2003. Prior to being elected, he worked as a lawyer in private practice. Mr. Chomiak also served as Executive Assistant to the Honourable Ed Schreyer, Premier of Manitoba.

Mr. Chomiak has been active in the community as a member of the Hoosli Ukrainian Male Choir and a board member of the Rusalka Dance Ensemble as well as a Big Brother with the Big Brothers Association of Manitoba. Dave Chomiak was born in Winnipeg’s North End and resides in the West Kildonan area of the city. He and his wife, Rita, have two sons.

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Tony Coleman
Chief Risk Officer and Group Actuary of Insurance
Australia Group (IAG)

Tony’s responsibilities for IAG, the largest general insurer in Australia and New Zealand, include all aspects of risk management for all of IAG’s businesses which currently earn total revenues in excess of A$6.5 billion per annum. Together with 8 eminent scientists, he has also been an active member of the Australian Climate Group, which has worked with WWF to promote a better understanding of global warming and climate change in the community since 2004. Tony has also been recently appointed as the only Australian representative on the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) Insurance Working Group which was formed to provide advice to the IASB on its International Insurance Accounting Standard project.

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George Collins
Chief of Research, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)

George Collins is Chief of Research at ANSTO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) with oversight of research activities in materials, the environment, radiopharmaceuticals, counter-terrorism and neutron & X-ray scattering.

George studied plasma physics at the University of Sydney and spent 4 years in fusion research at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He joined ANSTO in 1986 and within a few years moved into plasma surface engineering. He played the lead role in the development and commercialisation of Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation (PI³) as a high energy ion nitriding technique for enhancing the wear resistance of a wide range of metal alloys. His research influenced the understanding of the mechanisms that occur in plasma-assisted surface treatment and deposition techniques.

At the end of 2001, George was appointed Director of ANSTO Materials & Engineering Science and has been in his current role since the beginning of 2005.

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Henry Derwent
Director, Climate, Energy and Environmental Risk at the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mr Derwent’s responsibilities cover the environmental impacts of and policies towards climate change, sustainable energy, chemicals, biotechnology and genetic modification, the nuclear industry and radioactivity. During the UK Presidency of the EU he was the Special Representative to the Prime Minister on Climate Change.

He has previously held a number of positions in the Departments of Transport and Environment, covering roads, transport industries, vehicle licensing, finance, local government and other fields. His last post was a spell as a Corporate Finance Executive on loan to a major international investment bank.

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Tracy Dyson
Additional Revenue Manager, Meridian Energy

Meridian Energy, New Zealand’s largest renewable energy generator. Meridian’s portfolio of 11 hydro and wind power stations has a combined capacity in excess of 2,500MW, and Tracy’s team is dedicated to maximising the value of these assets, by generating additional revenue from emerging emission reduction markets.

Tracy’s depth of knowledge in international emerging markets, gained from 12 years’ experience working in Europe and Australasia, is now focussed on opportunities for renewable energy developments. Her negotiation of contracts with the Dutch government, for instance, has been instrumental in the successful development of Australasia’s largest wind farm, and marked the first sale of Kyoto credits in this region. It was also the first Joint Implementation project outside of Europe.

Tracy combines her extensive production management background with a Bachelor of Technology and a Master of Applied Science in Natural Resource Economics.

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Michael Dunlop
Research Scientist, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

Mike is a research scientist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and has a background in physics, statistics and ecology. His current research involves exploring long-term land, water and biodiversity futures at the national scale. This involves integrating drivers of change, incomplete data, conflicting aspirations and biophysical realities in an attempt to develop useful lessons for managing natural resources in uncertain futures.

In 2003/04 Mike spend six months on secondment to the Department of Environment and Heritage (then environment Australia) to assist in developing policy to address the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. Mike then joined the task group that developed the National Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan for the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council.

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Julian Elder
Chief Engineer, Watercare Services Limited

Dr Julian Elder completed his PhD in low cost generating technologies at the University of Auckland in 1984. During his career he has been involved in a wide range of power generation projects including hydro, geothermal and cogeneration plants. In recent years, Julian was the Asia Pacific Regional Water Wastewater Manager for CH2M HILL based in Singapore and oversaw the development of the NEWater water reclamation plants and associated public education programme. Julian is currently the Chief Engineer for Watercare Services Limited, the bulk water and wastewater service provider in Auckland, New Zealand. As part of this role he is looking at technology, issues and opportunities as they relate to the water and wastewater industry.

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John Ellice-Flint
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Santos Limited

Mr John Ellice-Flint was appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Santos Limited in December 2000. He is originally from Northern New South Wales.

John Ellice-Flint holds a Bachelor of Science (geology) degree with honours from the University of New England and also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

He has 33 years of exploration, production, operations and commercial experience in the oil and gas industry. John has worked in many of the major hydrocarbon basins around the world.

Prior to joining Santos, John held several senior positions with multinational exploration and production company Unocal. His last position at Unocal was as Senior Vice-President, Global Exploration and Technology, responsible for managing the company's worldwide exploration, research and information technology portfolios.

John was appointed Chairman of the South Australian Museum in 2002. John is a member of APPEA Council and a member of the Energy Governors of the World Economic Forum.

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Rob Fenwick
Chairman, New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development

Rob Fenwick has been actively involved in conservation, heritage and the sustainability movement for nearly 20 years. He is chairman of the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development, the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development in New Zealand, Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, the national board of the Order of St John and the Antarctic Heritage Trust.
Rob’s business, Living Earth Limited, is the country’s principal organic waste compost producer with operations in Auckland and Wellington. He participated in the working group to develop the National Waste Strategy and has written papers and speeches on waste recovery, soil management, conservation and sustainability generally. Rob is a knight of the Order of St John and in 2002 was chosen a New Zealander of the Year by North & South magazine.

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Tim Flannery
Chairman, South Australia Sustainability Roundtable and Premier’s Science Council
Australian Humanist of the Year 2005

Tim Flannery is one of Australia’s leading thinkers and writers. An internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, he has published more than 90 scientific papers and written many books including definitive ecological histories of Australia (The Future Eaters) and North America (The Eternal Frontier) and the landmark essay Beautiful Lies: Population and Environment in Australia. Tim Flannery’s pioneering research as a field biologist in New Guinea prompted Sir David Attenborough to describe him as being in the league of the world’s great explorers and the travel writer Redmond O’Hanlon to remark, “He’s discovered more new species than Charles Darwin.”
Born in Melbourne, Tim Flannery currently lives in Adelaide, where he is Director of the South Australian Museum and Professor at the University of Adelaide. He is an active member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, which reports independently to government on environmental issues of concern to Australians.

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Stuart Frazer
Director, Frazer Lindstrom Limited

Stuart has more than 20 years experience in the international energy sector. He has a degree in chemical engineering and held technical and operations roles with Shell prior to moving to New Zealand in 1995. Subsequently, in his executive position with The New Zealand Refining Company, he led the negotiation of New Zealand’s first Negotiated Greenhouse Agreement.
In 2003 Stuart established Frazer Lindstrom, now a leading climate change and energy sector consultancy firm, with a client list that includes many of the best known businesses in New Zealand. He is currently providing strategic advice to clients in the energy, manufacturing and legal sectors.

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Geoff Gallop
Premier of Western Australia, Minister for Public Sector Management; Minister for Water Resources and Minister for Federal Affairs

In February 2001, the Hon Dr Geoff Gallop became the 31st Premier of Western Australia. This was a historic victory for the Labor Party, which won by a record 14 seats.
Dr Gallop was born in Geraldton on 27 September 1951. In 1971 he graduated in economics at the University of Western Australia. Dr Gallop was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship in 1972 and graduated in philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford in 1974. He was awarded his doctorate by Oxford University in 1983. In 2005, Dr Gallop again led the WA Labour Party to
an election win.

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Andrew Grant
Managing Director, CO2 Australia Limited (wholly owned subsidiary of CO2 Group Limited)

Andrew is Managing Director of CO2 Australia which is dedicated to establishing large scale, commercial environmental plantings to generate carbon credits on behalf of investors. He was previously the National Head of Ernst and Young’s environmental advisory division and was the lead advisor to the New South Wales Government in relation to implementing its Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme. Just prior to joining CO2 Australia, Andrew was the Executive Manager, Sustainable Packaging, at the Visy Group of Companies.
Andrew has extensive experience in broad acre land management and has managed major commercial forestry operations in Victoria. He is a widely recognized authority on climate change and business risk management. Andrew has advised many of the major corporations across Australia on climate change
and emissions management and has performed design and audit roles in many carbon trades.

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Clive Hamilton
Executive Director, The Australia Institute and Chair, Climate Insitute (Australia)

The Australia Institute is an independent policy research centre based in Canberra. He is also Chair of the Climate Institute (Australia). He has held visiting academic positions at the Australian National University, University of Sydney and the University of Cambridge.

Described in the press as Australia’s ‘leading environmental economist’, he is best known for his work on climate change policy, ecological tax reform and the follies of economic growth.

He has published extensively, including six books. They include Running From the Storm: The development of climate change policy in Australia, (University of NSW Press 2001), Growth Fetish (Allen & Unwin 2003 and Pluto Press 2004) and Affluenza (Allen & Unwin 2005, with Richard Denniss).

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Anthea Harris
Project Leader, Inter-Jurisdictional Emissions Trading Group

Anthea is the Project Leader for the National Emissions Trading Taskforce. She leads the Secretariat that is supporting the work of the Australian States and Territories in developing a national emissions trading scheme to apply to the stationary energy sector. Previously, Anthea was a consultant at Frontier Economics, where she worked on a range of greenhouse policy issues, including assisting the NSW Government design and implement its Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme. Anthea has also previously worked at the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Productivity Commission.

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Mr. Bill Hartnett
Innovest’s Chief Executive in Australia

Innovest’s Chief Executive in Australia, Mr Bill Hartnett, joined the company in 2005 after having gained extensive experience in sustainable investment related research and product development. In 1999-2000 Bill worked on the product management and communication for the Westpac (now BT) Australian Eco Share Fund – the first ‘best of sector’ SRI fund offered to Australian superannuation funds. From 2000 to 2003 Bill developed and was the Manager of the Challenger Socially Responsive Investment Fund (SRI Fund). This was the first mainstream Australian share SRI fund in Australia to incorporate both negative and positive screening criteria within the stock selection and portfolio construction process, which has proved a popular approach for SRI funds established over the last 3-5 years. The fund won the inaugural “Ethical Fund of the Year 2001” from Ethical Investor Magazine. Bill’s qualifications include a Masters of Environmental Management from University of NSW (2004 for which he was awarded the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand Prize) and a Bachelor of Economic Degree (with double major in economics and sociology) from Macquarie University (1992).

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Peter Hawkes
Senior Associate, Baker & McKenzie’s Major Projects Group

Peter Hawkes is a Senior Associate in Baker & McKenzie’s Major Projects Group based in Sydney. He is also a key member of Baker & McKenzie’s Global Clean Energy and Climate Change Practice. Peter specialises in advising clients on a wide range of climate change issues, including renewable energy and other emission reduction projects as well as emissions trading risks and opportunities. He is admitted as a solicitor in both Australia and the UK and, while working in London recently, Peter was involved in drafting the Registries System Regulation for the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.

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Peter Hayman
Principal Scientist, Climate Applications, South Australian Research and Development Institute

Dr Peter Hayman is an agricultural scientist who has worked with many parts of the agricultural sector to assess and manage climate risk. Most of this work has involved the extensive cropping and livestock industries in Australia, but he has also been involved in projects in Cambodia and the Philippines. Before moving to Adelaide in 2004 to take the position of principal scientist, climate applications with the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) he was coordinator of climate applications for NSW Department of Primary Industry.

He represents Australia on two World Meteorological Organisation expert teams (End User Liaison, Climate Weather and Farming) and is a member of the technical advisory committee of the National Managing Climate Variability Program. He has been part of the team developing the Natural Resource Management section of the South Australian Greenhouse Strategy. In 2000 he was awarded the inaugural Seed of Light Award for research communication from the Northern Panel of the Grains Research and Development Corporation.

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Kevin Hennessy
Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Kevin Hennessy is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. He has been a member of CSIRO’s Climate Impact Group (http://www.dar.csiro.au/impacts) for 15 years, and became Deputy Leader in 2005. The Group analyses past changes in climate, develops regional climate change projections and assesses potential impacts. Kevin is a member of the New South Wales Greenhouse Advisory Panel and a Coordinating Lead Author of the “Australia and New Zealand” chapter of the forthcoming IPCC assessment of “Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability”.

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Hon John Hill
Minister for Environment and Conservation, Minister for Health, South Australia

John was born and raised in Sydney. After high school, John completed a Bachelor of Arts at Sydney University, while undertaking part time work as a taxi driver, factory hand and sales assistant.

At age 24 John moved to Adelaide and at Adelaide University he completed a Diploma of Education and a Bachelor of Laws.

John was employed by the Education Department of South Australia as a teacher in English and then as an Adviser with the Disadvantaged Schools Program until 1985.

From 1986 to 1989 John was an Adviser to the Minister for Education, before being appointed as an official of the Australian Labor Party. From 1994 to 1997 he was Labor’s State Secretary for South Australia.

John was first elected to Parliament in 1997 as the member for the southern coastal electorate of Kaurna and appointed to the Shadow Cabinet.

Following the election of the Rann Labor Government in March 2002, John was appointed Minister for Environment and Conservation, Minister for the River Murray (until 22 July 2004), Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts, and Minister for Gambling (until 4 December 2002).

John was appointed Minister for Health on 4 November 2005.

John was Minister for Consumer Affairs and Multicultural Affairs from 30 June 2003 until 29 August 2003.

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Dr Suzanne Hollins
Institute for Nuclear Geophysiology, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)

Dr Suzanne Hollins is a research scientist at ANSTO's Institute for Nuclear Geophysiology. She graduated from James Cook University with a BSc (Hons) in 1996 and a PhD in Environmental Physics in 2002. Before joining ANSTO as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in 2001, Suzanne carried out research into transport processes in mangroves and estuaries. She currently leads the "Isotopes for Water" which focuses on applications of environmental and radioisotopes to address questions about environmental impacts on our waterways and aquifers resulting from climate change, pollution, soil erosion and deposition as well as the interruption of natural ecological and physical processes and fluxes, and exploitation of our water resources.

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John Hooper
Executive General Manager, Institutional Markets & Services, National Australia Bank

John was appointed Executive General Manager of Institutional Markets & Services in August 2004 following a five month period as acting Executive General Manager (EGM) of the division. He has been with National Australia Bank since 1996 and has held a number of senior management roles. From July 2002 until his appointment as EGM, he was General Manager of Specialised Finance (project finance, asset finance, structured finance and leveraged finance), based in Melbourne. Prior to this, he was responsible for Corporate Finance, Europe based in London and was one of the founding members of the European Structured Finance team in 1996. He joined National Australia
Bank from Henry Ansbacher & Co Limited where he worked for two years on acquisition and structured asset finance transactions. Before this he spent over nine years, including a four year period in Los Angeles, with Kleinwort Benson, concentrating on a broad range of merchant banking activities.
John holds a Bachelor of Science Degree (Economics) from the London School of Economics and a Masters Degree from York University.

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Steve Howard
CEO, The Climate Group

Steve has worked on a variety of social and environmental issues from within business, non-government organisations and United Nations settings. He is currently the CEO of The Climate Group which he co-founded in late 2003 and is a member of HSBC’s Carbon Management Task Force.
As a former partner in Environmental Resources Management (ERM), Steve led the work on corporate social responsibility for clients as diverse as Kingfisher and ABN Amro. He also led work on climate change related projects for a range of organisations including EDF Energy, BP, WWF and The World Bank.
Steve was the founding Director of the Global Forest and Trade Network for WWF International, where he led an international team involved in advising 700 companies on forest and supply chain issues. He was Chairman of the UK Forest
Stewardship Council where he helped achieve a far-reaching consensus on a national forest certification standard. He was also founding Chairman of the Tropical Forest Trust from 1999 to 2004, which he helped establish to respond to the need for ethically sourced tropical timber. Over the course of his career Steve has worked in more than thirty countries, He has a first class honours degree in ecology and a PhD in environmental physics based on work as a Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry in Kenya.

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Vic Johnston
Senior Executive, Toyota

Vic Johnston's career in the automotive industry spans over 25 years. His experience with Toyota for 20 years includes senior management roles in Sales, Service and Parts with the Toyota and Lexus brands.

Vic's involvement with hybrids started with the first showcase of Toyota's ground breaking hybrid technology in Australia in 1998. Since the Australian launch of Prius in 2001 he has had the lead role in developing the market for hybrids as the manager responsible for Sales of the Toyota Prius. He is well known in the industry as a hybrid expert and often called on to talk at similar forums and to liase with corporate and government agencies on new environmental initiatives.

The presentation will set the scene as to why Toyota sees itself as a leader in sustainable technology and how the automotive industry is rapidly changing to meet the needs of the community and the environment for the future. In the Australian context he will also explore some of the challenges in embracing new technology.

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Bruno Julien
Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Australia and New Zealand

His Excellency Mr Bruno Julien is the Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Australia and New Zealand. Mr Juline has worked with the European Commission in Brussels for 25 years, most recently as Head of the LIFE Unit in the Directorate-General for Environment, managing around 800 projects that form LIFE, the EU’s financial instrument for the environment. He was also in charge of the EC Nature Policy for four years. Prior to that he served five years as Spokesman to several Commissioners, and has worked on agricultural trade and rural affairs matters for the Directorate-General for Agriculture and in the Washington Delegation. Prior to joining the Commission, Mr Julien was an Associate Professor conducting studies and research in the area of international agri-food marketing and held positions as Agricultural Economist for the UNDP and various institutions in Paris. He has a degree in agricultural engineering and a specialisation diploma in Mediterranean agriculture.

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Jonathan Jutsen
Founder and Group Executive, Energetics and EnVINTA
Corporation

As the founder and Group Executive for Energetics (one of Australia’s leading energy and environmental consultancies) and EnVINTA Corporation, Jon is a leading international expert on energy management. He is a chemical engineer with a Masters Degree in Applied Science and has 25 year’s of global experience
in the energy field. Jon has received a number of awards for his contribution to energy management, including Professional Engineer of the Year, and the Millenium Medal. A Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in Australia, Jon was also selected as one of the ‘100 Most Influential Engineers in Australia’ in 2004.

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Greg Lavery
Manager, Renewable and Low Emission Technologies, Major Development Projects, Origin Energy

Dr Greg Lavery manages a portfolio of Renewable Energy businesses within Origin Energy, an ASX Top 50 integrated energy company.

Greg has a broad range of experience in developing profitable green solutions, including:
Building Origin’s solar retailing business from to a 30% market share of the Australian grid connect market
Growing Origin’s compressed natural gas refuelling business
Streamlining Origin’s award-winning Energy Efficiency team
Commercialising Origin’s revolutionary SLIVER solar technology
A PhD in Green Buildings

Greg’s background includes strategy consulting with Bain, where Greg worked with clients around the world to identify and realise value for technical innovations and commodity products. Greg is also a professional engineer with experience in large power and infrastructure projects with Arup Consulting.

Greg's passion is delivering win-win solutions that increase company profitability while improving the environment and the community.

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Sean Lucy
Practice Leader, Climate Change, Phillips Fox

Sean is a commercial lawyer focussed on climate change and renewable energy. He has particular expertise in the operation of environmental markets, particularly carbon trading systems. Sean’s knowledge in this area is widely recognised, and he is often asked to provide comment for television and print media on the implications of policy developments for business. In addition to his client work, Sean also contributes to the ongoing public debate surrounding sustainability, by serving on the Board of the Australian Business Council for Sustainable Energy.

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David Luketina
Manager Environment, Business Services Division, WATER Corporation

Dr David Luketina is the Manager, Environment for the Water Corporation of Western Australia. Prior to joining the Water Corporation in 2003 he was based in Bangkok working for a French multinational supplying water services to over 100 million people around the world. He has also lived and worked in the US and New Zealand and managed water related projects in China, Chile, Brazil, the Philipines, Malaysia and Chile. He has published over 100 papers and reports.

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Nick Marsh
Managing Director, NEXT Corporation

Nick Marsh is the founder of the Foresight Institute of NZ, and Managing Director of NEXT, a research and consulting company based in Auckland. Strategic Foresight helps leaders in organisations to look into the future of their sector and develop strategic scenarios and roadmaps of the future. He began his career in England, Africa, and America and has since consulted widely in NZ and Australia. He was a principal in the team which designed and delivered the Foresight Project of NZ which spawned 150 sector foresight projects across all sectors and has reshaped national thinking about development in New Zealand.

Nick has worked extensively in the issues of sustainability in NZ and Australia, working in corporations and in city government assignments. He was a founding member of the NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development which has developed the WBCSD framework for business sustainability in NZ.

Nick has worked with the cities of Manakau, Auckland and Brisbane in helping set and develop a sustainable city agenda. He was the principal consultant for the Redesigning Resources project based in Christchurch which is a two year learning journey to apply the principles of Natural Capitalism to seven organizations.

Nick was the Director of the Auckland MBA programme at Auckland University and has published three books on management – “Theory K- Excellence in Management”, “The All Star Company” and “Strategic Foresight- the Power of Standing in the Future””.

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Craig McBurnie
Director Commodity Derivatives, ABN AMRO Sydney

Craig is a Director in the Financial Markets group of ABN AMRO Sydney, with a focus on the energy and environmental markets. He is responsible for the sourcing of Kyoto carbon credits for on-sale into Europe, Japan and Canada. Craig has over 15 years experience in derivatives and commodity trading, with a particular focus on new product development in emerging product markets. He is currently dealing with bank clients in Asia, South Africa and Latin America who are developing over 40 projects with over 20 million credits per annum supply potential.
Craig has been professionally engaged in climate change and emissions trading issues for over six years and also represents the Bank as a member of the Australian Financial Markets Association’s Environmental Products Working Group. He holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Economics in Actuarial Studies.

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Amanda McCluskey
Manager of Sustainability, Portfolio Partners

Amanda joined Portfolio Partners in 2006 as Manager of Sustainability and product champion for the new Portfolio Partners Long/Short Sustainability Trust. In this role, Amanda researches how listed companies manage sustainability and governance risks and the potential impact on share price performance.

Prior to joining Portfolio Partners Amanda was with BT Financial Group in their Governance Advisory Service. The Governance Advisory Service acts on behalf of major superannuation funds and researches social, environmental and corporate governance risks across the S&P/ASX200 index. Amanda also acted as secretariat for the development of the Australian Federal Government report on Sustainability from an Investors Perspective: The Mays Report and has since provided input to national and international initiatives on sustainability in the finance sector including the United Nations Finance Initiative report, Who Cares Wins. Amanda has advised State and Federal governments on investors expectations on energy and greenhouse reporting and represented BT on the Australia and New Zealand Investors Group on Climate Change and the Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering.

Prior to BT, Amanda was a Business Manager with FuturePlus (the financial planning business of the Local Government & Public Authorities Superannuation Scheme). Amanda holds a Bachelor of Economics with honours in International Relations and is has undertaken post-graduate studies in Finance Markets and Investment. Amanda is a keen cyclist, and has competed at the National level representing NSW and the University of Sydney in the Australian road titles and the University Games.

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Tony McMichael
Director, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University

Tony McMichael, director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, was previously Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He graduated in medicine from Adelaide University.

His epidemiological research interests have spanned occupational diseases; diet, nutrition and disease; and environmental influences on health. During 1993-2001 he chaired the assessment of health impacts for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and did likewise in the international Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project. He has been a frequent advisor to WHO, the UN Environment Program, and the World Bank. He is a director of the newly-established Climate Institute (Australia) and co-chair of the Global Environmental Change and Health project within the international Earth System Science Partnership.

In addition to many research papers he has written several books, recently “Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures” (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and (senior editor) “Climate Change and Human Health: Risks and Responses” (WHO/UNEP/WMO, 2003).

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Justin J McNab
Head of Energy & Infrastructure, National Australia Bank

Justin is responsible for National Australia Bank’s corporate banking relationships in the Energy, Utilities and Infrastructure sectors. This involves the origination, negotiation and management of transactions on behalf of NAB’s various product suites.

Prior to his current role, Justin spent two years as a Director of Project Finance, with a focus on the Energy and Utilities sectors.

Justin joined NAB in 2003 after six years at The Toronto Dominion Bank. As Vice President and Director of Energy and Utilities, he was heavily involved in the financing of various acquisitions within the sector, many of which were a result of government privatisation programs. He has also held roles with the Sumitomo Bank.

Justin has degrees in Commerce and Arts from the University of Melbourne, and holds a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University.

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Trixie Mead
Project Director, Adelaide Green City Program

After many years in Project and Administration management positions both inside and outside of Government in 2003 I became Project Director of the Green City Program. This is an initiative of the Capital City Committee and resides within the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

The duties include responsibility for the design and delivery of the Green City Program which aims for Adelaide to be internationally renowned as a Green City by 2010. Implementing showcase projects, engaging the community and industry and investigating the feasibility of ‘transformational’ projects form part of the charter. As well as this we have influenced policy direction, particularly following the residency of the first Thinker in Residence, Herbert Girardet who produced a report entitled “Creating a Sustainable Adelaide”.

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Mark O’Neill
Executive Director, Australian Coal Association

Mark has had a long involvement in environment and energy policy in Australia, with a career spanning non-government organisations, government and industry. Since 2000, he has held the position of Executive Director of the Australian Coal Association. Mark has been an advisor to both state and federal environment Ministers, and was Senior Advisor on the Environment to former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating.
As part of his current role, Mark is leading the COAL21 Program aimed at reducing coal-related greenhouse gas emissions in Australia.

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Rod Oram
Business Commentator; Adjunct Professor, New Zealand Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Unitec

Rod Oram has 30 years’ experience as an international financial journalist. He has worked in Europe and North America for leading publications such as the Financial Times of London and traveled extensively on those continents and in Asia.
Rod and his family emigrated from the UK to New Zealand in 1997. He is currently Contributing Editor at Idealog, a New Zealand monthly magazine devoted to the development of the creative economy; a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times; a regular broadcaster on radio and television; a frequent public speaker on business and economic issues; and an occasional correspondent for the Financial Times. He was Editor of the Business Herald section of the New Zealand Herald, 1997-2000.

Rod is an adjunct professor in the New Zealand Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Unitec and he has contributed to several recent regional economic development projects.

In the 2004 Qantas Media Awards, Rod was a triple winner as Newspaper Columnist of the Year and Magazine Feature Writer of the Year (both in the business category) and recipient of New Zealand Trade & Enterprise’s Travel Scholarship in recognition for his writing on NZ innovation.

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Peter Ottesen
Executive Director, Office of Sustainability, Chief Minister’s Department, ACT Government

Peter Ottesen is Executive Director of the Office of Sustainability in the Chief Minister’s Department of the ACT government. The Office is responsible for driving implementation of the Government’s sustainability agenda and has whole-of-government responsibility for water, energy and greenhouse policy, and the delivery of related efficiency, rebate and education programs for business and households.

He has 25 years of senior level policy and management experience in the public and private sectors within the environment, protected area management, commercial fisheries, tourism, agricultural, transport, waste management, water, energy, sport and event management industries, within Australia and Canada.

A personal career highlight was his five years with the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) where he established and led its Environment Program. In 2001 the UN Environment Program elected SOCOG to its Global 500 Roll of Honour. He was subsequently an adviser to the successful Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid team and the successful London 2012 Bid.

He has been an adviser to a senior cabinet minister in the Australian Government and held positions in the Australian Government’s Department of Primary Industry and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, and Environment Canada.

Peter is Deputy Chair of the Banksia Environmental Foundation, a leading Australian not-for-profit that identifies and rewards environmental excellence. He has a BSc (Hons) degree from James Cook University and an MSc (NRM) degree from the University of Western Australia.

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Tim Nevard
Environmental Planning, Tourism, Nature Conservation and Resource Development, GHD

Tim has conceived, initiated and managed a range of successful businesses and initiatives and consults professionally in environmental planning, tourism, nature conservation, and resource development. He has a wide knowledge of the legislative framework and environmental issues raised by development, particularly in Australia (Queensland and Tasmania) and the UK.
He has acted as an expert witness at over 40 planning and parliamentary inquiries and legal cases and has ongoing relationships with two universities. Tim was a founding main board Director of the UK’s largest environmental consultancy, the RPS Group PLC, taking it to a full listing on the London Stock Exchange and retains a wide professional and business network. He is a principal of Bellamy & Nevard, with Professor David Bellamy OBE, and led the practice into a business alliance with the GHD group (www.ghd.com.au).

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Hon David Parker
Minister Responsible for Climate Change Issues,
Minister of Energy, Minister of Transport, Attorney-
General (includes responsibility for the Serious
Fraud Office)

Minister Parker has recently been appointed to the above Ministerial positions. He has previously been a businessman involved in launching and managing non-GM biotechnology companies including BLIS Technologies, Botry-Zen, Pharmazen and A2 Corporation. Previously he was a litigation partner
in law firm Anderson Lloyd Caudwell.
Minister Parker is also Deputy Chair of bioSouth. BioSouth is a network of Dunedin (South Island, New Zealand) biotechnology and related entities whose aim is to generate more wealth for the region from biotechnology. The initiative aims to generate this wealth by providing an environment that encourages links between research and industry.

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Hon Mike Rann
Premier of South Australia
Minister for Economic Development, Minister for Social Inclusion, Minister for the Arts and Minister for Volunteers

Labour’s Mike Rann became South Australia’s 44th Premier after the State election in March 2002. He was first elected to the South Australian Parliament in 1985 as the Member for Briggs, later Ramsay. In December 1989 he was elected to the Labor Cabinet under Premier John Bannon, as Minister for Employment and Further Education, Minister of Youth Affairs, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Minister assisting in Ethnic Affairs. In September 1992 he became Minister for Business and Regional Development, Minister of Tourism and Minister of State Services. After a brief period as Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Mike
became Leader of the Opposition in late 1994.
Mr Rann has acted as an Adviser to numerous election campaigns in Australia and New Zealand.

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Nick Rowley

Born in the London in 1967 Nick Rowley was educated in the UK at Exeter University and the London School of Economics. Between his degrees Nick spent six months at Harvard working on the first management / union contract at the university.

In London Nick has worked for the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy on public sector reform and the Carnegie UK Trust on population ageing.

In Sydney from November 1995 to 2004, Nick worked as Senior Policy Advisor to Bob Carr, Premier of New South Wales helping guide government achievements in areas including the environment, urban development, and medical research.

From March 2004 to last December Nick worked at 10 Downing Street as Senior Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair focussing on sustainability and climate change, contributing to the 2005 Labour manifesto and attending the G8 Summit at Gleneagles.

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Jim Salinger
Principal Scientist - Climate, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
Associate Professor, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Auckland

Jim has been involved for 30 years in leading research on the past and present climate, and its impacts in New Zealand and the South Pacific, especially on agriculture. He is currently a Principal Scientist – Climate with NIWA, and an honorary Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Auckland.
As well as being involved in climate research for clients, Jim is editor of the Island Climate Update, which disseminates climate information in the South Pacific region. He leads an international team examining the effects of climate change and variability on agriculture for the World Meterological Organisation’s Commission for Agricultural Meteorology. Jim is also a lead author for the Australia/New Zealand impacts and adaptation chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment
Report 4.

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Ari Sargent
Strategy Director, Meridian Energy

Ari has 15 years experience within the Electricity industry. Prior to joining Meridian Energy, Ari held numerous roles within the New Zealand electricity industry, primarily focused on risk management, electricity trading, market modelling and production planning.

For several years Ari held the position of Risk Portfolio Director, responsible for Meridian’s electricity trading and risk management activities. A key aspect of this role was the management of the operation of Meridian's major storage reservoirs (Pukaki and Tekapo) and developing key risk management processes and guidelines around the use of this storage. He was also actively involved in coordinating Meridian's response to the shortages in 2001 and 2003.

Ari is currently Strategy Director, responsible for preparing strategic advice, long term industry analysis and recommending strategic direction and positioning for Meridian Energy.

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Stephen Schneider
Stanford University

Stephen H. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, co-director of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy, and Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Civil Engineering.
Dr. Schneider was honoured in 1992 with a MacArthur Fellowship for his ability to integrate and interpret the results of global climate research through public lectures, collaboration with colleagues, and media appearances. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Plasma Physics from Columbia University in 1971. In 1975, he founded the interdisciplinary journal, Climatic Change, and continues to serve as its Editor. He is co-anchor of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Cross-Cutting Theme on Vulnerability for the Fourth Assessment Report.

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Ralph Sims
Director, Centre for Energy Research, Massey University

Prof Ralph Sims is Director of the Centre for Energy Research and Professor of Sustainable Energy at Massey University, New Zealand where he began his energy career in the early 1970’s working on biodiesel from tallow esters. He has since been involved in wide ranging renewable energy research for over 3 decades and published extensively, including the book “The Brilliance of Bioenergy – in Business and in Practice”.

He is currently the Co-ordinating Lead Author for the “Energy Supply” chapter of the IPCC’s 4th Assessment Report due for publication in 2007 after the current expert review process has been completed. Ralph is the New Zealand delegate on the IEA’s Renewable Energy Working Party; serving a third term as a ministerial appointment to the Board of the NZ Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, and a recipient of a Silver Medal for Science and Technology from the Royal Society.

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Cheryl Smith
Manager, Environmental Products, Energetics

Cheryl Smith is one of Australia’s leading experts in the emerging area of environmental markets. As Manager, Environmental Products for Energetics, Cheryl has fourteen years experience in the electricity industry, with extensive expertise covering trading and generation in both conventional and renewable markets.

More recent experience includes; advising renewable developers on the optimum solution for the hedging of the output from their projects, including power, RECs, NGACs and other green rights, proprietary trading of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Certificates (NGACs), electricity trading contracts, development of investment and trading opportunities in carbon and water markets in Australia, New Zealand and Europe; and, environmental utility project finance assessments.

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Andrew Stock
Executive General Manager, Major Development Projects, Origin Energy

Andrew Stock has had over 30 years of experience in the energy sector both in Australia and overseas. He is currently Executive General Manager, Major Development Projects nationally for Origin Energy Limited, and is a Director of Geodynamics Limited and several other Origin group companies.

Andrew’s current role sponsors and implements major capital development projects across Origin Energy’s upstream petroleum and generation businesses. The company has several billion dollars of investments currently under development. The role is also responsible for low emissions energy technology development activities including the Sliver solar technology.

Andrew is a member of the Advisory Committee to CSIRO’s Energy and Transport Division, the South Australian Premier’s Roundtable on Sustainability and past national President of the Australian Business Council for Sustainable Energy. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Institute of Energy.

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Adrian Stott
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) / Joint Implementation (JI) consultant for Mitsubishi UFJ Securities

Adrian specializes in services related to the acquisition of carbon credits through the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms. In particular, focusing on the production of baseline studies and new methodologies for greenhouse gas abatement projects. He is the principle author for 12 CDM / JI Project Design Documents (PDD) as well as a number of new baseline and monitoring methodologies. His primary interests are in renewable energy, waste management, energy efficiency and CO2 capture and storage (CCS) projects.

Upon graduating with first class honours from Curtin University of Technology, WA, Adrian worked in the Ecotoxicology field, conducting environmental related work contracted by oil exploration companies. He also lectured to undergraduate students. Following successful selection for the Japanese Department of Education Postgraduate Award Scholarship, he moved to Japan and completed his Ph.D. at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. Adrian is the author of numerous publications in international journals and has appeared as an invited speaker at conferences and forums throughout the world.

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John Thwaites
Deputy Premier of Victoria, Minister of
Environment, Minister for Water, Minister for Victorian Communities, State Member for Albert Park

In December 2002, Minister Thwaites assumed responsibility for delivering on the Victorian Government’s commitment to sustainability when he took over the newly created portfolios of Environment, Water, and Victorian Communities.
John Thwaites entered Parliament in 1992, and in 1994 became the Shadow Minister for Health, adding Planning to his portfolio of responsibilities in early 1999. With the Brack’s Government’s electoral victory in October 1999, John became Minister for Health and Minister for Planning. John was Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1996 and has been Deputy Premier since 1999.
John initiated the strategic plan for Melbourne, Melbourne 2030, which establishes a 30 year plan for Melbourne’s development and protects important environmental areas on Melbourne’s outskirts. He is very active in the community he serves, advocating for the environment and demonstrating that what is good for the environment is also good for business.

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Alan Thompson
Chief Executive, Auckland Regional Transport Authority

Alan Thompson is the inaugural Chief Executive of the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA). ARTA was created in late 2004 to tackle the serious transport challenges that exist in New Zealand’s largest city Auckland. Specifically ARTA is responsible for expanding and operating Auckland’s passenger transport services, encouraging sustainable transport modes (notably walking and cycling) and coordinating non-motorway roading investment.

By initial training Mr Thompson is a civil engineer with Master of Science qualifications. Since 1989 Mr Thompson has been Chief Executive of a number of major State and Territory government departments in Australia. Two of these departments had major environmental roles, notably :

• From 1999 to 2004 Mr Thompson was CEO of the Australian Capital Territory Dept of Urban Services, which included the environmental and conservation responsibilities of the ACT Government.
• From 1992 to 1996 Mr Thompson was CEO of the Victorian Department of Conservation and National Resources.

In a previous role in the 1980’s, Mr Thompson had responsibility for clearing up major industrial waste problems for Victoria.

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John Torkington
Greenhouse Gas Opportunity Manager for the Gordon Development, Chevron

John Torkington graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a Degree in Applied Geology in 1984. Over the last 20 years John has held a number of roles in oil and gas and coal bed methane exploration and development in South West and Central Queensland, the Northern Territory and the North West Shelf of Western Australia. John joined Texaco in 1996 with responsibility for assisting in the management of Texaco’s interests on the north west shelf of Australia, including the Barrow and Thevenard Island oil operations and its interest in the Gorgon gas fields. Following Texaco’s merger with Chevron in 2001, John was appointed to the role of Commercial Team Leader for the Barrow Island and Thevenard Island oil production joint ventures. In January 2004, John was appointed to the role of Greenhouse Gas Opportunity Manager for the Gorgon Development. Primary responsibilities in that role are ensuring that appropriate legislation and regulation is in place to enable CO2 injection and overseeing the environmental assessment and government approval process as it relates to the CO2 injection component of the development.

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Michael Ullmer
Director, Finance & Risk, National Australia Bank

Michael Ullmer was appointed to the National Australia Bank Group as Chief Financial Officer and Director, Finance & Risk, in August 2004.

He has more than 30 years' experience in financial services. This includes audit and advisory responsibility for a wide range of financial institutions, as well as line responsibility for financial and risk management and institutional and business banking.

Michael has a degree in Mathematics, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Banking and Finance and an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia.

He started his career as an accountant with KPMG (then Peat Marwick Mitchell) in London in 1972. After two years in the United States, he migrated to Melbourne in 1979. In 1982, Michael became a partner and then, in 1987, Chairman of KPMG. He was audit engagement partner for ANZ and performed a wide range of advisory assignments for financial institutions, covering strategy, treasury risk management, due diligence and financial structuring.

In 1992, Michael joined Coopers & Lybrand as Chairman of the firm's Asia-Pacific Financial Services Group, which covered all services by the firm to banks, funds management and insurance companies. In this role he performed advisory roles on the recapitalisation and demutualisation of National Mutual, the restructure and sale of State Bank of South Australia, and the integration of Suncorp insurance and Metway Bank. He was also audit engagement partner for Westpac.

In 1997, Michael joined Commonwealth Bank of Australia as Group Executive, Financial and Risk Management. In 2002 he became Group Executive, Institutional and Business Services, leading a division responsible for the Bank’s 190,000 business customers, comprising 6,000 people and generating over $1 billion in net profit after tax.

At National Australia Bank, Michael is responsible for finance, risk, balance sheet management, investor relations, strategy development, legal and economics.

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Can Wang
Institute for Environmental Systems Analysis, DESE, Tsinghua University

Dr Can Wang received his bachelor degrees in engineering and economics from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering (DESE) and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in 1998 and received a Doctorate degree from Tsinghua University in 2003, with “Climate Change Policy Simulation and Uncertainty Analysis: a Dynamic CGE Model of China” as the subject of his PhD thesis.

Since August 2003 he has been employed at the Institute for Environmental Systems Analysis at the DESE of Tsinghua University. His major interests are in climate change policy modelling and analysis. He has been acting as principal investigator for several international co-operative projects and national projects in the fields of the technological-economic analysis of mitigation options in energy intensive sectors through bottom-up modelling, economic impacts assessment of carbon mitigation in China through CGE model, capacity building and market consultation for CDM project development in China, etc.

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Murray Ward
Principal, Global Climate Change Consultancy

From 1996 to 2002 Murray led the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment’s climate change team. In addition to steering the development of domestic climate change policy, Murray was a leading senior negotiator in NZ delegations to international climate change meetings. He is considered to be one of the key architects of the Kyoto framework, in particular for his international work on Land-Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (‘sinks’) and market trading mechanisms. This has included chairing key rules-drafting groups and the development of the international Registries system.

Through his private firm Murray now provides senior counsel to a range of international and NZ public and private sector clients. His current international focus is on the “Where to next, and how” for an enlarged multilateral climate change regime.

Murray was born and educated in New Zealand and has a degree in Electrical Engineering. From 1975 he pursued a career in Canada in environmental technology and consulting, before returning to NZ in 1996.

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Tim Warren
Chairman, Shell Companies in Australia

Born in India and educated in the United Kingdom, Tim Warren graduated in applied mathematics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He joined Shell International in 1970 and worked in Brunei, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and Oman. In 1985 he returned to The Netherlands to hold a series of management positions in Shell International.
In 1992 Tim Warren went to Nigeria as General Manager of Shell Petroleum Development Company’s western division. He took up the position of Director of Research and Technical Services, for Shell International Exploration and Production in 1995 and was appointed to the position of Regional Business Director for East Asia, China and Australasia in March 2001. He was a member of the global executive committee for Shell’s exploration and production business from 1996 to 2002. In 2002 Tim Warren was appointed Country Chairman of Shell in Australia and CEO of Shell Development (Australia) Pty Limited. He
relinquished the role of CEO of Shell Development on 1 January 2004.
Tim Warren is Chairman of Shell Australia Limited, Shell Energy Holdings Australia Pty Limited, Shell Refining Australia Pty Limited, the Shell Company of Australia Limited and Shell Todd Oil Services in New Zealand. He is also a Director of the Board of Woodside Petroleum Ltd and Production Director of
EPA Asia Pacific for Australia and New Zealand.

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Julie Webb
Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Australia Manager for the ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability Australia - New Zealand (ICLEI ANZ)

She works with the 209 councils across Australia that are working on the CCP program. As well as a structured program for participating councils to address through greenhouse emissions Julie also manages several specialised programs such as public lighting, sustainable transport, purchasing and local economic development

Prior to joining ICLEI in 2002 Julie worked in various local environmental programs including managing the Community Work Coordinator program in a community garden and ran a sustainable tourism network in Nepal.

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Bob Welsh
Chief Executive, VicSuper Pty Ltd

Bob is Chief Executive of VicSuper Pty Ltd which is corporate trustee and administrator of VicSuper Fund which is one of the largest and fastest growing public offer superannuation funds in Australia. The Fund’s market is the Victorian public sector and small to medium size private business and the general community in Victoria.
Bob was the driving force behind VicSuper’s adoption of sustainability as its central operating principle in 2002 and its aim to build VicSuper Fund as a sustainable superannuation fund.
In September 2005 Bob’s pioneer work in fostering sustainability principles in the superannuation sector of the financial services industry was recognised internationally when he was awarded the annual Sustainability Leadership Pioneer Award at the International Sustainability Leadership Symposium in Zurich, Switzerland.
Bob is inaugural Chairperson of Sustainability Victoria a new statutory authority established on 1st October 2005 to facilitate and promote environmental sustainability in the use of resources. He is also founding Chairperson of the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand.

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Fiona Wild
Environmental Affairs Advisor, BP Australia

Fiona works as Environmental Affairs Advisor for BP Australia, based in Melbourne. She represents BP Australia in climate discussions with government, industry, NGOs and customers, as well as providing a link between the global organisation and its Australian operations.

Fiona completed her degree and PhD in Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, UK and joined BP in 1999 as a graduate in the Exploration and Production business. Her first role was as the Environmental Advisor to the Forties offshore oil fields in the North Sea, followed by a year working at the Grangemouth site near Edinburgh, one of the largest refinery and chemical complexes in BP. She then moved to BP’s head office in London, and undertook a role project-managing the preparation of the company’s annual environmental report. In 2002, she moved to Perth, Australia as a Health, Safety and Environmental Manager in BP’s Lubricants business, before taking up her current role in Melbourne in 2005.

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Martijn Wilder
Partner, Baker & McKenzie, Head of Global, Climate
Change Practice

Martijn Wilder is a partner with global law firm Baker & McKenzie, working in the emerging carbon, environmental and renewable energy markets areas. He is regarded as one of the world’s leading lawyers in the climate change area, representing many of the market leaders including The World Bank’s Carbon Finance Business, the European Carbon Fund, The Japan Carbon Fund, Rabobank International, Climate Change Capital and a number of governments and corporations. Martijn is Chair of the New South Wales Premier’s Greenhouse Advisory Panel.

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Michael Wilson
Executive Manager Commerical, Pacific Hydro

Michael joined Pacific Hydro in April 2003 and is responsible for negotiating and securing key commercial contracts, including Emission Reduction (Carbon Credit) Sale Agreements, for the company’s pipeline of wind and hydro development assets located both in Australia and offshore.

Michael has 16 years commercial and financial experience in infrastructure development in the utilities industry, and over 11 years of experience in the renewable energy sector. Prior to joining Pacific Hydro, Michael spent over eight years with Energy Developments Limited (EDL), where he held a number of pivotal implementation roles, incorporating elements of financial analysis, project finance and contract management and negotiation, in the delivery of over 300MW of greenfield renewable and thermal (gas-fired) power plants, in Australia, Europe and Asia.

Whilst at Pacific Hydro, Michael has successfully negotiated sales and connection agreements for a number of the company’s wind and hydro electricity projects, including the company’s first Kyoto Protocol compliant (Clean Development Mechanism – “CDM”) emission reduction sale agreement for the company’s run-of-river hydro projects in Fiji; as well as overseeing those projects’ successful validation and registration with the CDM Executive Board.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Commerce.

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Tony Wood
General Manager, Public and Government Affairs, Origin Energy

Tony Wood adds over 30 years of experience in the energy, transport, fertilizer and chemical industries to our deliberations. Since July 2001, he has been General Manager, Public and Government Affairs with responsibility for Origin Energy’s relationships with Governments, their agencies, the media and the community. He was previously Origin Energy General Manager Retail with responsibility for the marketing of natural gas, LPG and Electricity throughout Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this, Tony was General Manager Chemtrans with the Incitec Group.

Tony is a Board Member of the Committee for Melbourne and has previously been President of the Australian LP Gas Association, a Board member of the World LP Gas Association and Australian Gas Association, a Director of the Electricity Suppliers Association of Australia and Chairperson of the Energy Retailers Association of Australia.

Currently, Tony has responsibility for Origin’s contribution to the debate on Climate Change. This is an issue that will critically influence the nature and structure of the energy sector - a sector at the core of our economic and environmental prosperity. Tony has regularly contributed to conferences, industry and government working groups, and media commentary on this important topic.

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Cathy Zoi
Group Executive Director, Bayard Group

Cathy Zoi has two decades of experience in the energy and environmental sectors in the U.S. and Australia. In 2003 Cathy joined the Bayard Group as Group Executive Director. Bayard is a private investment firm whose activities are organised around building an environment and sustainable energy company of significant size and strength. Founded in 2002, Bayard has invested over A$300m in the energy sector and is now the world leader in an essential industry – the manufacture of electricity meters.

In addition to her work at Bayard, Cathy is involved in a variety of public policy activities. In particular, she is part of the 15-member International Climate Change Taskforce (ICCT), launched in 2004 in Britain and the United States. The ICCT is a coalition of politicians, business people, scientists, government and non-government professionals formulating a climate change strategy ‘beyond Kyoto’. Specific recommendations were developed and delivered to governments in January 2005.

Cathy is also a member of Western Australia’s Greenhouse and Energy Taskforce who have been commissioned to craft a plan for WA achieving a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Cathy is a member of the Board of the newly-established $10 million Climate Institute whose purpose is to focus public attention on the impacts and importance of climate change. Since 2002 Cathy has been a member of AMP’s Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Advisory Committee.

Prior to coming to Australia in 1995 Cathy was Chief of Staff of Environmental Policy in the Clinton White House (1993-95). Previously, Cathy was a manager in the US EPA where she pioneered the globally-recognised Energy Star program, and an energy analyst at ICF Incorporated and Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

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David Wratt
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA)

Dr David Wratt is a Principal Scientist with NIWA in Wellington. He is Leader of the National Climate Centre, Chair of the New Zealand Climate Committee (Royal Society of New Zealand), and a Bureau member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. David's interests include helping  those involved in climate sensitive activities identify the effects of climatic  extremes and change and adapt to them. He was a Convening Lead Author for the Australia and New Zealand Chapter of the Working Group II volume (impacts, vulnerability and adaptation) of the IPCC's Third Assessment Report. He has helped the New Zealand Climate Change Office develop material to assist Local Government staff with identifying climate change impacts and adaptation options.

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