Associate Professor Cathy Oke is Melbourne Enterprise Principal Fellow in Informed Cities in the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning and Associate Director (Enterprise and Impact) for Melbourne Centre for Cities. She has considerable international and local expertise in sustainable, resilient and liveable cities.
Cathy's research interests focus on the interaction between urban nature and climate - research, policy and practice - for greater impact in cities. She is project leader of the SDGs Cities Challenge, Senior Advisor to the Innovate4Cities program of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and sits on ICLEI's (Local Governments for Sustainability) Global Executive Committee.
Cathy was a Councillor at the City of Melbourne 2008 - 2020.
See Cathy at the 2022 Better Futures Forum:
Tuesday 6 September, 4:00pm - 5:15pm AEST | Sector Workshop & Submissions: Partnering With Local Government to Accelerate The Transition and Build Climate Resilience
Wednesday 7 September, 3:00pm - 4:00pm AEST | Roundtable: Partnering With Local Government to Accelerate The Transition and Build Climate Resilience