BIOGRAPHICAL DATA FOR SEMINAR
SPEAKERS
Matthew Quinn
Head of Policy, National Assembly of Wales
Matthew Quinn is Head of Policy for the National Assembly for
Wales - one of the three new devolved administrations in the UK. He has responsibility for delivering the Assembly's
statutory duty to pursue sustainable development in carrying out its functions.
Matthew was previously Director of Environment and Transport in the
South West of England; Head of Planning Policy in the UK Department of the
Environment; and Team Leader for the UK's first Environment White Paper, This
Common Inheritance.
University of Newcastle and Skye Point Innovation
Joe Herbertson is an independent consultant and Director
of Skye Point Innovation. He is also
an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle. In recent years he held senior technology positions
in BHP including running the Newcastle Research Laboratories and being General
Manager Research of BHP Steel. Joe
has become increasingly committed to addressing the challenges of sustainable
development, and the need for innovative responses based on scientific and
engineering excellence. He initiated
and managed the Sustainable Resource Processing project, with the support
of significant resource companies, CSIRO, Universities and government organisations.
The project has created a fertile framework for innovation and improving
performance, particularly in the resource processing intense areas around
Australia such as Kwinana.
Dr Clive Hamilton
Australian National University and the Australia Institute
Dr Clive Hamilton is a Senior Lecturer with the Public Policy
Program at the Australian National University. Clive was Research Fellow and Director of the Graduate Program in
the Economics of Development at the ANU's National Centre for Development
Studies before joining the public service in 1988, where, among other positions,
he was founding head of the Research Branch of the Resource Assessment Commission.
He was a member of a UN Group of Experts on Least Developed Countries
and spent two years as a senior economic and environmental adviser to the
Government of Indonesia. Clive is also Executive Director of the Australia
Institute. With Professor Mark Diesendorf,
he recently edited a new book for policy makers about the relationship between
ecology and economics, Human Ecology,
Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically
Sustainable Future.
Mark Diesendorf
University of Technology, Sydney and Institute for Sustainable Futures
Mark Diesendorf is Professor of Environmental Science and the retiring Foundation Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at University of Technology, Sydney. He is a researcher, lecturer, consultant, and facilitator of social and organisational change. Currently his main areas of interest are sustainable energy, urban transport/better cities, and processes for achieving ecologically sustainable and socially just development.Mark is President of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics and a member of the policy committee of the Australian Cooperative Research Centre on Renewable Energy (ACRE).He is also a member of the editorial boards of several international journals and is co-editor with Clive Hamilton of the interdisciplinary book, Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future
Mr Alistair Mant
Chair, Socio-Technical Strategy Group
Alistair Mant is an international authority on leadership development and executive talent identification. He is Chair of the UK-based Socio-Technical Strategy Group - a brokerage for carrying out studies of system function and dysfunction. Alistair spends a third of each year working with private and public sector clients in Australasia dealing with leadership, modernisation of government, organisation structure and the strategic aspects of human resource management and development. He was involved in Western Australia's Progress Rural WA strategy to help rural communities support greater innovation. Alistair's newest book is Intelligent Leadership.
Dr Peter Brotherton
Director, Sustainable Solutions Pty Ltd
Peter Brotherton is Director of the Melbourne-based company Sustainable Solutions with a doctorate from the University of Western Australia. He is also a Councillor of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). Peter has been working closely with the ACF over the past four years as environmental adviser on a project to build the ACF Green Building in Melbourne which will set new standards for energy, materials and water efficiency.
Dr Brendan Mackey
Australian National University
Brendan Mackey is a Reader in Ecology and Environmental Science
at the Australian National University. His research interests include forest
ecology, greenhouse science, and sustainability ethics. Brendan is a project
leader in the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting and has
recently completed a project for the Queensland Government on the Natural
Heritage Significance of Cape York Peninsula. He was a member of the international
Earth Charter drafting committee, is currently serving as Director of the
Education Program of the Earth Charter International Secretariat, and is chair
of the Earth Charter Australia Network.
Dr David Annandale
Lecturer in Environmental Policy, Murdoch University
David Annandale has taught environmental policy in the School of Environmental Science at Murdoch University since 1993. He is responsible for teaching in the areas of environmental impact assessment, environmental policy and law, and organisational strategies for the environment. His research interests focus on the impact of environmental regulations on firms, and in the role that multi-lateral development banks play in environmental protection. He has also worked as a policy analyst for the Asian Development Bank, and the UNDP.
He lives in an awful chocolate brick house in Bibra Lake
with a partner, two young boys, a cat, a prospective dog, some fish, and maybe
a parrot. He is tired a lot of the time. For the last 20 years he has been
involved in policy work that attempts to reconcile environmental protection
with economic development. He is the author of the only two reports that have
been written on the potential for "green jobs" in WA. His most recent work,
for the Department of Training, is titled: "Enviroworks: the Potential for
Green Jobs in WA".
Dr Ken Green
Director of CROMTEC
Ken Green as well as being Director of CROMTEC, is a Senior Lecturer in Technology Management in the Manchester School of Management in UMIST, Head of the Technology Management Group and Director of the MSc Programme in Technology Management. He is responsible for research and teaching in environmental management aimed at an understanding of the activities of corporations, especially concerning their strategic approaches to technological developments. His research activities for the last 5 years have been devoted to an exploration of issues concerning the role of technological innovation within corporate environmental management. In addition, he has been developing research in business and policy issues raised by the exploitation of biotechnologies and the responses of businesses to the contemporary challenge of the greening of productive process. Ken's research interests are environmentalist pressures on technological innovation and socio-economic analysis of biological technologies. He is continuing actively to pursue this work with the newly-established Manchester Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition (CRIC) which has the shaping and creation of demand as one of its main themes.
David Birch
Professor of Communication and the Director of the Corporate Citizenship Research Unit, Deakin University, Melbourne
David Birch is Professor of Communication and the Director of the Corporate Citizenship Research Unit, Deakin University, Melbourne. He is on the Editorial Boards of several International Journals, including the new The Journal of Corporate Citizenship and Asian Business and Management. Professor Birch is (or has been) involved in research partnerships with leading organisations in Australia, including, BP, Rio Tinto, TXU Australia, The City of Melbourne, Worldvision, BHP, Ernst & Young, Bristol Myers Squibb, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors; and in research mentorships with graduate employees in Bosch, the National Australia Bank and Ford Australia. He was commissioned by the Business Council of Australia to write a definitive account of the history of Corporate Social Responsibility, and organised the First National Conference on Corporate Citizenship in November 1998, and with Rio Tinto, the Second National Conference on Corporate Citizenship in November 2000. Professor Birch is a member of the Board of the Australian Corporate Citizenship Alliance, Ability Australia and the Institute of Disability Studies, and a member of the Australian Leadership Forum and he is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Adjunct Professor in corporate citizenship at Southern Cross University, and received the Deakin University Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Academic Leadership and Innovation in 2000.