With an academic and professional background in science, business, and finance, I am an experienced advisor and consultant on the integration of sustainability, climate change, clean technologies and renewable energy into business and investment strategies.
I have consulted to major national and international investment funds on the integration of environmental, social and governance values in finance. I was Head of Sustainability and Climate Change to FINSIA, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, worked for the UN in Geneva, Switzerland and for a federal minister in Australia.
As an ethical investment advisor in Australia, I advised individuals and NGOs on ethical or Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) portfolio strategies and wrote industry courses on this topic for the Australian investment industry.
I founded and was the Chair of The Climate Council Inc, whose aim was to integrate federal and investment industry initiatives on climate change and was a delegate to a number of the international UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol meetings and served on a federal government selection panel for clean technologies.
I am certified as a permaculture teacher., and as one of the Australian Ecotourism founders established the first national cetacean-based tourism industry association and served as its inaugural Chair.
I sit on the Advisory Boards of Ethical Markets LLC, USA, the Climate Prosperity Alliance, USA, Climate Futures, Macquarie University, Australia and am a member of UN Harmony with Nature.
Over the past years, my focus has shifted to partnering with Indigenous peoples to integrate sustainable innovations with traditional knowledge and a profound respect and connection to Land, Country and Spirit . I founded together with an Hopi Elder 1Earth Institute Inc https://1earth-institute.net, a NFP working with traditional Indigenous elders around the world
At present I am writing two books, one for children and one for general adult consumption, integrating systemic thinking into the urgent need to change the prevailing worldview. The children's book came to counteract 'adultism', wishing to offer children through stories and laughter a different way of looking at reality.
