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| Mr Harry Kenyon-Slaney Chief Executive Energy Rio Tinto Harry was appointed Chief Executive Energy in September 2012. Prior to this, he was Chief Executive Diamonds and Minerals from October 2009, Managing Director of Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium from 2007, and Chief Executive of Energy Resources of Australia from 2004. Harry is a geologist who joined the Group from Anglo American Corporation of South Africa in 1990. Since joining Rio Tinto, he has held marketing and operational roles in the uranium, copper and industrial minerals product groups. He was Chairman of the Australian Uranium Association from 2006 to 2007, director of Energy Resources of Australia Limited from 2004 to 2007 and chairman of the Copper Development Association (South Africa) from 2000 to 2003. Harry holds a BSc in Geology from Southampton University and has completed the International Executive Programme at INSEAD. | |
| Dr Peta Ashworth CSIRO Science into Society Group Peta Ashworth brings over twenty years of experience working in a range of senior management and research roles. Peta is currently group leader of the Science into Society Group within CSIRO’s Division of Earth Science and Resource Engineering. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. Peta leads a team of 25 social researchers examining stakeholder perceptions to areas of national significance to Australia. Peta’s main research interest is how to deliver information to best effect. Peta Ashworth has gained an international reputation as a leading researcher in understanding stakeholder perceptions to climate change and low emission energy technologies, in particular CCS. This research is critical because although much of the effort to address climate change will be led by industry and government, energy users at the community level will also play a critical role both in technology acceptance and behaviour change. Peta believes it is important to educate and empower them to engage with this issue and work towards environmental sustainability. As part of her work Peta co-authored The CSIRO Home Energy Saving Handbook – How to save energy, save money and reduce your carbon footprint, which was released late last year. Peta is currently Chair of the IEA GHG Social Research Network. | |
| The Hon Martin Ferguson AM Group Executive Natural Resources Seven Group Holdings Martin Ferguson AM has a long history of public service and work in economic and social policy. From 1984 until 1990 Martin served as the General Secretary of the Miscellaneous Workers Union and from 1990 until 1996 as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). As a senior trade union official, from 1984 until 1996 he sat on the ACTU National Executive, participating directly in shaping and implementing many of the economic reforms of the Hawke and Keating Governments. In March 1996, Martin was elected as a Member of the Federal Parliament in the seat of Batman, in Melbourne, which he held until retiring at this year’s election. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in June 1996. | |
| Professor Chris Greig Director UQ Energy Initiative Professor Chris Greig leads the UQ Energy Initiative, which incorporates UQ’s energy research capabilities across all faculties and institutes. The scope of the initiative encompasses both traditional fossil energy and renewable energy systems and links engineering, material sciences and mining research, to social policy, economics, and environment. Chris is a Chemical Engineer having obtained his Bachelors, Masters and PhD at the University of Queensland. As a graduate he was the cofounder and Managing Director of a successful company that commercialised innovative process technology internationally for over 10 years. He has since held senior executive and project director roles in construction, mining and clean energy industries both in Australia and abroad over a career spanning 25 years, and remains a non-executive director of publicly listed and government owned corporations. His main interests lie in CCS, Energy Economics and Policy, Energy Poverty and Mega-Project Implementation. He is a member of the Advisory Boards for the Queensland Centre for Coal Seam Gas (Chair), Queensland Geothermal Energy Centre of Excellence, Queensland Carbon Geostorage Initiative, National CCS Council and a member of the Strategic Reference Group for the Queensland Government’s 30 year energy plan. | |
| Ms Jennifer Hewett National Affairs Columnist Australian Financial Review Jennifer Hewett has been a national affairs correspondent many years specialising in coverage of major business and political stories and where and how these different interests intersect. She also regularly appears as a commentator on TV and radio. A journalist with more than 30 years experience, Jennifer has worked for The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald. She has also worked in New York and Washington as a foreign correspondent. Jennifer was born in Perth. She has a Bachelors degree from the University of WA and a Masters degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. | |
| Mr Rod Johannessen General Manager Strategy and Service Delivery APA Group Rod Johannessen is General Manager Strategy and Service Delivery with APA Group, Australia’s largest energy infrastructure company. Rod’s responsibilities include leading the team that manages contracts with APA Group’s customers on the 18 transmission assets owned by APA Group. Rod is also responsible for leading the introduction by APA Group of initiatives, such as pipeline capacity trading, that support the development in Australia of liquid physical gas markets. Rod has 25 years experience in energy and agricultural commodity markets. Rod’s career in energy includes the gas and electricity sectors and working in upstream, mid-stream and downstream companies. | |
| Ms Kathy Jones Board Director The newDemocracy Foundation Kathy Jones is one of the three founding directors of newDemocracy, chaired by Luca Belgiorno-Nettis. Her initial interest in “doing democracy better” came from her observations and experiences of the way government, the media and the bureaucracy had become an impenetrable cabal in some jurisdictions. She is passionate about show how real citizens engagement in government through deliberative processes can improve decision making; and ultimately our democracy. Kathy has 25 years’ experience as a senior communications practitioner in both the private and the public sectors, overseeing strategic stakeholder engagement and community relations functions and projects. She is also a Board member of The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering. Since 2001, Kathy has been the owner and company principal of KJA – a stakeholder engagement consultancy. | |
| Ms Kerrie-Anne Lanigan Gas & Power Marketing Director Esso Australia Pty Ltd As Gas and Power Marketing Director for ExxonMobil in Australia, Kerrie-Anne leads the team responsible for marketing the natural gas and associated products produced by Esso Australia. Kerrie-Anne joined ExxonMobil in 1995 as an engineer and spent the early party of her career in a variety of technical assignments supporting Esso’s production operations in Gippsland, Victoria. In 2002 she relocated to the U.K. where she held several roles supporting the European Sales business. From 2005 Kerrie-Anne had a range of commercial and managerial assignments in the US. Prior to her return to Australia in 2010, Kerrie-Anne was located in Houston as the Manager of ExxonMobil Power and Gas Services, with responsibility for the procurement of power and natural gas for ExxonMobil operations globally. Kerrie-Anne is a graduate of the Mechanical Engineering program at Queensland University of Technology and holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School. | |
| Mr Colin Liebmann Acting Vice President, Australasia Recurrent Energy Colin Liebmann is Acting Vice President, Australasia for Recurrent Energy. Recurrent Energy is a large scale solar PV developer and is part of the Sharp Group. Recurrent is one of the most successful solar developers in North America with more than 600MW operating or under construction and another 200MW contracted and a 2GW pipeline. Colin has represented Recurrent in Australia since early 2011 and is responsible for all operations including business development, project development and government relations. Colin has a wealth of senior management experience in the renewable energy industry in Australia and Europe. He was the founder and Managing Director of Southern Cross Windpower, a wind energy development business based in Sydney. He was responsible for negotiating and managing a joint venture with RES of UK and managed a team which developed a portfolio of windfarm projects in Australia and New Zealand. After RES’ acquisition of Southern Cross Windpower, Colin became Managing Director of RES Australia. Prior to his entrepreneurial initiatives, he was an investment manager with CVC REEF, a renewable energy equity fund, being responsible for identifying investment opportunities; making recommendations to the investment committee and supporting new businesses. In the early part of his career, he was a project engineer with Wind Energy Group, part of UK based Taylor Woodrow, which designed, manufactured and built some of the first windfarms in UK from 1990 to 1995. In that role he was involved in designing, constructing and operating wind turbines in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and Italy. Colin has First Class Honours in Engineering from University of Sydney and an MBA from Cranfield in UK. | |
| Dr Peter Lyons Assistant Secretary Nuclear Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, United States Department of Energy Dr. Peter B. Lyons was confirmed by the Senate as the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy on April 14, 2011. Dr. Lyons was appointed to his previous role as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy in September, 2009. As Assistant Secretary, Dr. Lyons is responsible for all programs and activities of the Office of Nuclear Energy. | |
| Mr Keith Orchison AM Coolibah Consulting Keith Orchison AM has been involved in Australian resources and industry policy issues management and communications for 34 years. He has been a communicator for 55 years, starting as a journalist in South Africa in 1959 and emigrating to Australia in 1970. He served for four years in the 1970s as public affairs manager of Associated Pulp & Paper Mills Limited and for three years as head of public relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He was chief executive of what is now APPEA for 11 years and of the Electricity Supply Association of Australia for 12 years. From 2003 to 2007 he chaired the energy committee of the Critical Infrastructure Advisory Council for the Howard government. He has also been chairman of the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network and of the CSIRO Energy Technology Advisory Committee. Today he runs his own energy advisory business as Coolibah Pty Ltd and is publisher of the blog “This is Power” and of the Coolibah monthly newsletter. He is also the editor of the “OnPower” website and yearbook and he contributes a commentary on energy issues regularly to “Business Spectator.” He was editor of the “Powering Australia” yearbook from 2007 to 2012. Keith is also engaged in the organisation and chairing of a series of energy outlook conferences. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004 and in 2012 was recipient of AusIMM’s Sir Willis Connolly Memorial Medal for outstanding communication about the mining and resources sectors. | |
| Dr Adi Paterson Chief Executive Officer ANSTO Dr Adrian (Adi) Paterson commenced his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) on 1 March 2009. In March 2014 he was reappointed. As CEO he has oversight and responsibility for ANSTO’s multi-facetted portfolio of activities. Since his arrival at ANSTO, Dr. Paterson’s diverse career experience, understanding of engineering, management, policy development and business have allowed him drive positive change and growth. Staff numbers have increased, from approximately 920 to over 1200. A number of major engineering projects have been initiated, including the Centre for Accelerator Science, a suite of neutron beam instruments, a global scale nuclear medicine facility and a commercial scale synroc waste processing plant. In January 2013 ANSTO became the operator of the Australian Synchrotron, to leverage neutron scattering at Lucas Heights and x-ray scattering in Melbourne for an extensive user community in Australia, New Zealand and overseas. | |
| Mr Jim Snow Director Oakley Greenwood After graduation as a Chemical Engineer Jim spent 12 years in the Natural Gas Industry (AGL) holding several senior executive positions. He has since then held senior executive positions with Energy Developments Ltd running their Development and Construction Group, was CEO of Hunter Electricity, CEO of Consulting for Energetics Pty Ltd and was a founding Vice President in Australia of the Boston based consulting firm Charles River Associates which evolved to become Oakley Greenwood in Australia. Jim has worked across the energy and water industry. This has included water and energy pricing and economic regulation, demand side management, greenhouse gas mitigation and emission trading, extensive and complex modelling and price/volume forecasting work as well as building generation plants, gas pipelines and electricity grid systems, CNG and LNG facilities, managing energy retail operations and has consulted widely to the demand side, particularly energy intensive industry. Jim has also undertaken large assignments internationally including spending more than two years restructuring the entire electricity industry of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and is currently advising on the restructure of the Malaysian industry and associated incentives based regulation of the key monopoly assets of the country. | |
