Leigh Ackland is an academic with a personal chair in Molecular Biosciences at Deakin University. Leigh's interests are in research, where she is director of a Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, and also in undergraduate and postgraduate student education.  Her main expertise is in the biology of metals in particular zinc, but also metals including toxic ones. Metals are important in health, and deficiencies causes disease (eg zinc deficiency). Metals in the environment may be toxic and this can cause environmental and health problems.

Tara Allsop brings significant strategy, transformation and senior management experience to Climate Alliance, along with broad expertise within sustainability and climate change. She has held senior in-house roles as a sustainability leader and she has consulted on sustainability and climate change within Big Four consulting firms. In 2008, Tara founded a national sustainability consultancy with a client base of ASX-listed firms, FMCG companies, government organisations and SMEs. Tara currently holds a corporate strategy role within a global organisation. Tara is a past Chairperson of the Board of Advisors.

Julia Bilyanska is an Associate Director with KPMG's Sustainability and Risk Assurance practice with wide ranging experience in providing assurance over both financial and non-financial information. An accredited Energy and Greenhouse auditor registered with the Clean Energy Regulator under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act and have lead emissions and energy assurance engagements for companies with activities primarily in the mining and transport industries.

Julia has been involved in the development of the assurance methodology and leading assurance programs for coal, manganese and iron ore operations.

Prior to joining the Climate Change and Sustainability practice she was the engagement manager for financial statement audits of a number of listed and private companies, and have IFRS and SOx experience.

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.

Lloyd Fleming is Finance Director for Common Purpose, a global leadership training organisation headquartered in 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.

Dr. Turlough Guerin is the Chairman of the Board of Advisors. He has over 15 years board level experience in community engagement, primary industry, sustainable transport, risk & governance, and heavy industry. He is a non-executive director of Bioregional Australia and the Australian Institute of Agriculture, and a Board Advisor to Australia’s largest community broadcast media organisation and a renewable energy company. In an executive capacity he has had hands-on as well as strategic environmental management roles with Chevron, Shell, Rio Tinto, Telstra and managed planning and compliance requirements for construction of Australia’s largest utility-scale solar PV power stations in NSW for First Solar. He currently works for NSW Government in its sustainable business program.

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.

Taimur Siddiqi is a co-founder and director of The Incus Group, a consultancy dedicated to helping organisations create, measure and report the social impact of their work. He has worked with EY, Net Balance and WheatonBeer as a sustainability services professional and consulted to a range of not-for-profit, government and corporate organisations on how to measure, manage and improve their social and environmental performance. 

Taimur has previously worked with NGOs in the environment and international development fields and organised Round Square conferences in Bangladesh on environmental challenges and sustainable technological solutions in 2010 and 2012. Taimur is a member of the Australasian Evaluation Society and holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Environment from the University of Melbourne, where he focussed on climate policy, environmental risk & management and sustainable development.

With 10+ years experience in climate change and sustainability, Wei Sue joined Marchment Hill Consulting in November 2017, at a time when the energy sector and the emissions debate are now inextricably linked. Wei specialises in analysis to understand complex relationships between and within sectors or entities in both energy supply and demand.

Previously, Wei worked at ClimateWorks Australia where she was a Research Manager, leading and managing pioneering research projects. Recent advisory projects include working with governments in Australia to understand the opportunities for emissions reduction across all sectors of the economy, and working directly with large energy-using businesses to establish emissions reduction strategies and targets. Beyond advisory, Wei also led and co-authored a number of reports that looked at benchmarking industrial companies energy productivity performance, as well as understanding the importance of energy management.

Wei recently completed an MBA at the Melbourne Business School and New York University’s Stern School of Business. She also holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours from Monash University and the University of Melbourne. Wei loves scuba diving and exploring the natural environment in her spare time, and will always have an opinion about food.

Mary Voice has been involved in weather and climate education throughout her career. Mary 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, manages the national climate record and 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 Organisation.  She is a Fellow of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS), an independent professional society representing the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences in Australia, and currently its national President.

Markus has over 20 years experience in legal and general management roles in technology, resources and renewable energy businesses. His energy experience includes working on the feasibility phase for a pumped storage hydro project in South Australia and landlord funded rooftop solar on commercial property. Markus is Chief Operating Officer of listed exploration company DGO Gold Ltd. He was previously GM Corporate with Pacific Hydro during a period of intensive development of wind power and run-of-river hydro projects in Australia, Chile and Brazil.