Speakers

The 2022 Better Futures Forum showcased 75+ leading Australians from businesses, governments and organisations at the cutting edge of climate action. Local and global leaders explored the defining issue of our time to shape better futures together.

DRIVING AMBITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Speakers

Thank you to the following speakers for participating in the 2022 Better Futures Forum!

Ric Brazzale

Chairman of the Green Energy Group

Willy Missack

Policy Advisor to the Vanuatu Government

Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO

Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW

Ilona Millar

Head of the Climate Change and Sustainability team at Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney

Dr. Pichamon Yeophantong

Associate Professor and Head of Research at the Centre for Future Defence and National Security, Deakin University at the Australian War College

Associate Professor Fengshi Wu

Associate Professor at UNSW

Darcy Pimblett

Program Development Manager, Cities Power Partnership at The Climate Council

Associate Professor Cathy Oke

Melbourne Enterprise Principal Fellow in Informed Cities

Portia Odell

Director of the Cities Power Partnership

Alexi Lynch

Chair of Climate for Change and Business Manager at Ironbark Sustainability

Costa Zaharakis

Leasing Specialist and Account Manager for LeaseXpress

Professor Anthony Burke

Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales

Monica Tan

Head of Projects for Beyond Zero Emissions

Andrew Petersen

Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia

Dan Watters

Sustainability Manager at Capital Brewing Co

Tim Buckley

Founder & Director of Clean Energy Finance

Skye Blair

KPMG Associate Director - Management Consulting & Operations Advisory

Dr Chun Hin Ng

Senior Researcher at Beyond Zero Emissions

Clark Butler

Co-founder of Zero Industrials & Sunshot Industries

Celina Garcia

Climateworks Centre, lead of the Land Use Futures program

Ian Cumming

Climate & Security research at UNSW Canberra

Louise-Marlena Tarrier

CEO of Carbon Positive Australia (CPOZ)

Associate Prof Veronica Matthews

University Centre for Rural Health, The University of Sydney

Trevor Gauld

National Policy Officer - Electrical Trades Union of Australia

Tony Wolfe

Vice Chair of the Gippsland Climate Change Network; RDA Gippsland Committee & Community Advisory Group for Star of the South

Steve Murphy

National Secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union

Simon Currie

Energy Estate & former Global Head of Energy at Norton Rose Fulbright

Simon Corbell

Former Victorian RE Advocate and Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for the Environment and Climate Change of the ACT

Dr Paul Barnes

Judith Neilson Research Fellow (Disaster Resilience) at the University of New South Wales and Coordinator of UNSW’s Resilient Futures Collective

Melissa Edwards

Director of the Executive MBA and an Associate Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the UTS Business School

Liz Lopa

Executive Group Manager for the Infrastructure, Communication and Engagement Division in the ACT Health Directorate

Lara Panjkov

Senior Growth & Market Development Manager at Fluence

Janaline Oh

Former Australian diplomat & member of Diplomats for Climate Action Now (Dip4CAN)

Cr HY William Chan

City of Sydney, Lord Mayoral governing team

Hudson Worsley

Chair of the Materials & Embodied Carbon Leaders’ Alliance & Co-Founder of Presync

Fiona Armstrong

Founder and Strategic Projects Director of Australia's Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA)

Eugenie Kayak

Enterprise Professor in Sustainable Healthcare at The University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Medical School

Dr Elizabeth Boulton

Independent Researcher at Destination Safe Earth

Dr Simon Quilty