VALUING NATURE: CLIMATE & CORPORATE RISKS AND REWARDS

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Jane   Gleeson-White  - KEYNOTE SPEAKER 

Jane is a writer, rights of nature   advocate and adjunct lecturer at UNSW Canberra with a PhD on Nature in the 21st Century. She’s the   author of four books, including the internationally acclaimed bestselling Double   Entry: How the merchants of Venice created modern finance,   and its sequel Six   Capitals: Capitalism, climate change and the accounting revolution that can   save the planet. She’s   also the author of four recent essays on the erasure of women, First Nations   people, care work and the natural world from global economic systems and   theories, and other patriarchal structures. Her book reviews and essays have   been widely published, including by the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Sydney Morning Herald, and Griffith Review.

Alpa Bhattacharjee – PANELIST 

Alpa has been with HSBC since 2010 and started working in the blue   economy space in 2015. In addition to her role as Head of Sustainability for   HSBC Australia, Alpa is working on unlocking the barriers to investment and   bankability for nature-based solutions, through the HSBC Climate Solutions   Partnership, a USD100m investment that aims to scale up the technologies and   investments required to transition to a low-carbon economy.

Terence Jeyaretnam – PANELIST 

Terence is a Partner with EY’s Climate Change and Sustainability team   based in Melbourne and EY Australia’s Reconciliation Leader. Terence is an   environmental engineer and an environmental and sustainability advisory and   assurance specialist with over twenty-five years’ experience in advising   governments and corporations on sustainability issues. Until its acquisition   by EY in 2014, Terence was Founder/Executive Director of Net Balance,   Australia's largest standalone sustainability and climate change practice at   the time, one of Australia’s first B Corporations, twice-rated by Business   Review Weekly as one of the 100 fastest-growing companies in Australia.   Terence is a non-executive director of Global Citizen (Australia), Fairtrade   Australia New Zealand, Food Frontier and Legal Sector Alliance and is an   Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Queensland. He acts as a   Senior Advisor for SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board) in   Australia and is a member of the Technical Working Group of CDSB (Carbon   Disclosure Standards Board). 

Hugh   Killen – PANELIST 

Hugh has been the   Managing Director & CEO of AACo since 2018. Over the last three years he   has overseen the turnaround of the performance of the company. He’s done this   while the Australian agriculture industry has experienced some of the worst   droughts and floods ever seen, with the added impact of COVID-19. Established   in 1824, the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) is Australia’s largest   integrated cattle and beef producer, and is the oldest continuously operating   company in Australia. Today, AACo owns and operates a strategic balance of   properties, feedlots and farms comprising around 7 million hectares of land   in Queensland and the Northern Territory. This equates to roughly 1% of   Australia’s land mass. AACo specialises in grain fed beef and Wagyu beef   production. Prior to joining AACo, Hugh spent 25 years as a senior executive   working with Westpac and State Street in global financial markets across   Australia, the UK, and North America. He has a lifelong association with   agriculture having being raised on pastoral properties in northern NSW and   south west Queensland. Today he still has strong personal involvement in the   agriculture industry, through his own private farm on the south coast of NSW,   which is also his family home.

Zoe Whitton - PANELIST

Zoe is a Partner at Pollination Group, a specialist climate change   investment and advisory firm. Zoe assists companies and investors to navigate   the impacts of climate change and to build new businesses and products which   are transition aligned. She previously led the award-winning APAC ESG   Research team at Citi, advising institutional investors globally on climate   change and sustainable development. Earlier in her career Zoe covered ESG and   climate change at Credit Suisse and at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and   served as a youth delegate to the UNFCCC. She serves on the boards of the   Investor Group on Climate Change and the Centre for Policy Development and is   a member of the advisory group of the Sydney Environment Institute. Zoe has   won numerous awards for her research and work on climate finance and risk,   and regularly contributes to the wider conversation on sustainable finance by   commentating in the Australian and international press along with various   publications.

Adam Spencer – PANEL FACILITATOR 

Adam is a famous   Australian media personality and public mathematician. He likes to describe   himself as “nowhere near Australia’s best mathematician - but possibly it’s   best known”. Adam was completing a PhD in Pure Mathematics at the University   of Sydney when he won a national   Raw Comedy championship with Triple J, Australia’s youth radio station. He then   went to become one of   Australia’s most respected, wittiest and thought provoking breakfast radio   commentators across Triple J and later ABC 702. His dexterity at   being both mathematical - he has authored 7 best-selling books for talented   maths students - and verbal - he was voted best debater in the world at the   1996 World Championships - makes him a curious customer indeed. Adam is currently   the Ambassador for Science and Mathematics at the University of Sydney, and   his latest book, Maths 101, for Dumb Dads and Desperate Mums, has been   released by Hardie Grant.

Jennifer Chambers – Partner, Jones Day – WELCOME 

Jennifer is a highly experienced strategic   litigator and a partner of Jones Day’s Global Disputes practice. Based in   Sydney, Jennifer’s practice is focused on corporate governance and regulatory   matters, including ESG issues and climate-related risk. Jennifer regularly   acts for individual directors, executives, and boards, as well as   multinational and major domestic corporations in connection with high-value   disputes and regulatory investigations and proceedings. Jennifer has   particular experience in acting for clients across the financial services and   energy, mining, and resources industries. Jennifer is part of Jones   Day’s global team that is assisting clients navigate transition and climate   disclosure risks, including the risks of allegations of misleading or   deceptive advertising and ‘greenwashing’ in a rapidly evolving regulatory   landscape. 

Will Glamore – Acting CEO, Sydney Institute of Marine Science  - WELCOME

Dr Will Glamore is an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow   at the Water Research Laboratory, UNSW Sydney.  Dr Glamore is currently   the Chairman of the World Association for Maritime Transport (ANZ), the   Deputy Director of the Water Research Centre, and leader of the   Eco-Engineering Research Group. He has previously received Ministerial   appointments as the Chair of the Tuggerah Lakes Expert Panel; an inaugural   member of the NSW Coastal Council; a member of the Marine Estate Expert   Knowledge Panel; and the Chair of the PFAS Independent Expert Panel - Water   Group.  Over the past 25+ years, Dr Glamore has led various research   programs on harbours, estuaries and wetlands, including the development of   large-scale coastal wetland restoration projects throughout Australia.    He is a Churchill Fellow, a Peter Cullen Fellow, a Kevin Stark   Medallist, and the winner of both the Green Globe Award and Engineers   Australia’s Excellence Award.  He recently co-led the development of the   Clean Energy Regulator’s Blue Carbon Method, and was on the Expert Working   Group for the Australian Academy of Science’s   'Sustainable Oceans and Coasts National Strategy'.  He is   currently the interim CEO of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science.