Board of Advisors

The Board of Advisors is appointed to provide guidance and advice to the directors of Climate Alliance. Members of the Board of Advisors have been drawn from a broad cross-section of industry and academia.

	Nicholas Antonas Nicholas Antonas is an environmental and energy lawyer at Blake Dawson. His main areas of work involve advising private and public sector clients on the environmental aspects of major energy, resource and infrastructure projects and transactions including climate change and water law. Nicholas holds a Master of Laws (Environment and Clean-tech) from the University of California at Berkeley and he holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (Mechanical) from the University of Melbourne.
	Liz Bossley Liz Bossley is the author of ‘Climate Change and Emissions trading: What Every Business Needs to Know’, and is a recognised expert in the emissions trading industry. She is a member of the UK treasury’s carbon market expert group and an adviser to the City of London. In addition to this book she has written “Emissions Trading and the City of London” and the policy document “UK Emissions Policy Options” for the City of London. She is a regular speaker on international platforms in the U.K, Europe, Africa, the U.S.A, the Far East and Australia. She has thirty years’ industry experience and is the CEO of the Consilience Energy Advisory Group Ltd.
	Luke Chamberlain Luke Chamberlain is the Victorian Forest Campaigner for The Wilderness Society. Luke’s role is to educate the public about the role that forest and ecosystems play in the international carbon cycle and to advocate for the protection of these critical natural systems. Luke works at all levels of government to advocate for the correct accounting of forest ecosystems in Australia’s national carbon accounts. Luke is involved in the UNFCCC international climate change negotiations. Prior to The Wilderness Society, Luke worked for 13 years with IBM and Pricewaterhouse Coopers as a management consultant, specializing in IT.
	Dr Harry Chua Dr Chua was born in Singapore and lived in Malaysia for most of his childhood. He came to Australia to live in the late 70’s, and attended high school at Ivanhoe Grammar. He finished his medical degree at the University of Melbourne in 1988. A property developer, he also has interests in the medical and hospitality fields as well as the environment. Harry is a director of Climate Alliance.
	Christine Cussen Christine has extensive commercial experience and over 25 years' senior executive and board experience in strategy, business growth, international business development, marketing, technology commercialisation, business transformation, change management and sustainability through Chief Executive Officer and General Management roles with global pharmaceutical, industrial and biotechnology companies in particular Orica, Zeneca, Astra Zeneca, ICI and Eiffel Technologies Limited. She is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Smart Water Fund an unincorporated joint venture that funds and manages investments on behalf of Melbourne’s urban water utilities and the Victorian Government. .
	Lloyd Fleming Lloyd Fleming is the Managing Director, European Operations Carbon Trade Exchange, London. He has worked in finance, energy and sustainability in Australia and the United Kingdom and has many years’ experience advising at Board, CEO and senior executive level. He has a strong understanding of, and experience in helping companies create value from emerging social and environmental trends. Lloyd has consulted in carbon and sustainability since 2009, returning to live and work in the UK in early 2011
	Dr Turlough Guerin Dr. Turlough Guerin is currently the Chair of Access Melbourne, Australia’s first transport management association (TMA). He is an environmental and sustainability professional with 17 years experience in team management and consulting roles in Rio Tinto, Shell, and Telstra. He is recognised as an advocate for his industry and profession, responsible for publishing Telstra’s first official corporate blog on sustainability, establishing a forum of corporate environmental managers in Melbourne, a peer network of environmental and sustainability managers from ASX 100 and Fortune 500 companies. Further details on Turlough’s career and experience are available at http://au.linkedin.com/in/turloughguerin.
	Ric Hallgren - Chairman Ric Hallgren M.Sc, B.Com. is a Director and the General Manager of Dowling Consulting, a boutique management consultancy specializing in Operational Excellence and ITSM. In the Carbon context, Ric’s focus is on the intersection of carbon and sustainability initiatives with business as usual. Changes will be needed to the governance, supply chain, business cases, processes, reporting requirements, data management and IT systems, to support the smooth integration of carbon as an integral embedded constraint in running a business. Dowling Consulting assists senior management to strategically remodel business and proactively drive sustainable change in a top down structured fashion. Adapting the corporate strategy, institutionalising operational changes and exploiting new customers, markets and business models are key to business profitability and survival in a carbon constrained economy.
	Hendrik Karsten Hendrik came to Australia in 1988 on a working holiday visa and never returned to the Netherlands to live. He has always been involved in the hospitality industry and management of several restaurants and function venues in Melbourne before starting Karstens conference and training centre. He was a board member of the Restaurant and Catering Association from 2004 till 2006 and did post graduate studies at the Victorian University to obtain a graduate diploma in hospitality management. He is aware that our consumption orientated live style is not sustainable and that action is needed to become a more sustainable society. Hendrik is a director of Climate Alliance.
	Adjunct Professor Alan Pears AM Alan Pears is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University and Associate Director of the RMIT Centre for Design. He is a Director of the environmental consultancy Sustainable Solutions. Alan is one of Australia’s leading specialists on energy efficiency programs and policy, as well as renewable energy and green buildings. He has worked for governments, business and community groups across all sectors. He was awarded a Centenary Medal for his contribution to climate change policy. In 2009 he became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) based on his work in this field. He is a Board Member of EcoBuy, a not for profit organization focused on green purchasing.
	Tara Allsop Tara Allsop is the Managing Director of Green for Retail and also the Head of Sustainability within parent company, the ECOnomics Group. With a solid understanding of climate change and sustainability issues, Tara brings a strong background in strategy, complemented by expertise in global retailing, retail operations, process improvement, and communications. Tara has held senior roles within retail organisations and has also worked in top-tier management consulting firms. Tara’s clients have included large and medium retailers, small retailing franchisees, FMCG manufacturers, growers, wholesalers, and retail property groups. Tara is passionate about finding strategic, cost-effective and practical solutions to the ‘sustainable consumerism’ conundrum.
	Fiona McNabb Fiona McNabb is an expert in capital markets, derivative and option pricing, quantitative analysis, capital allocation, risk management and corporate governance. She has over twenty five years of corporate experience and was a senior executive with National Australia Bank and Treasury Corporation of Victoria and currently lectures for Monash University in their MBA program. As well her lecturing, Fiona is a non-executive director of VicForests, chair of VicForests Audit and Risk Management Committee, a deputy trustee of VicSuper and a risk management consultant. Recent consulting assignments have included business risk reviews of margin lending, option broking and credit card service businesses. Fiona is also involved in the community as a board member of the Australian Poetry Centre and of Baseball Victoria.
	Andrew Neilson - Secretary Andrew is an experienced commercial executive, passionate about sustainability and clean technologies. Andrew is currently Group General Manager Commercial and Company Secretary for Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited. Ceramic Fuel Cells (ASX / LSE: CFU) is commercialising fuel cell powered microgenerator products. Andrew has practical experience in commercialising clean technology and intellectual property, formulating strategy and executing business plans, structuring and negotiating contracts with global partners, suppliers and customers, managing pre-revenue companies, raising equity, investor and public relations, corporate governance and company secretarial requirements. He has also served as a Board Member and Secretary of the Sustainable Living Foundation. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
	Ben Scheltus Ben Scheltus has a broad background in engineering, economic evaluation, IT, energy systems and business development - in Europe and Australia. Ben has worked in the chemical, information technology and education industries. He has successfully run his own business for many years. For ten years he held a position as a Director of a large private school. He has a particular interest in the practice of good governance. He has assisted a number of companies improve their system of IT governance. He currently provides business continuity consulting for medium to large firms. He has a long-standing interest in the environment – in particular energy systems and more efficient methods of generating power. Ben has Bachelor Engineering degree from Monash University and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Ben is a director and the CEO of Climate Alliance.
	Taimur Siddiqi - Secretary Taimur Siddiqi is a consultant with WheatonBeer, a boutique climate change and sustainability consultancy. Prior to joining WheatonBeer, Taimur worked with NGOs in the climate, environment and development field and has completed international internships in Ghana and Dubai. He has also volunteered with The Wilderness Society (Victoria) and organized a Round Square conference in Bangladesh on 'Environmental Challenges'. In 2010, Taimur completed a Master of Environment from the University of Melbourne where he focussed on climate policy, environmental risk & management and sustainable development.
	Arjun Surapaneni Arjun was born and lived in India untill 1991. Arjun enjoyed the nature’s bounties of the thick Burmese Jungles, rich flora and fauna of North Eastern India, of Lower Himalayas and the Upper Himalayas as a young Indian Army Officer before thrown in to the concrete jungle of Los Angles as a young entrepreneur. Arjun came to Australia to visit his consulting team in Perth in 1997 and travelled to Sydney and Melbourne and chose to live in the garden state of Australia since then. Arjun has business interests in Education and Information Technology and a strong advocate of anti-consumerism. Arjun is a director of Climate Alliance.
	Mary Voice Mary Voice lectures in climate change and provides consultancy services in climate and climate-related environmental matters. She is a former head of the National Climate Centre (NCC) of the Bureau of Meteorology which provides climate services to the Australian community and manages the national climate record. The NCC also contributes to the Australian effort for the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Internationally, she was a member of the Advisory Working Group for the Commission for Climatology of the World Meteorological Organization. Mary has been involved in weather and climate education throughout her career.