Experience

British New Zealand Business Association

• New Zealand
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • jun. de 2022 - - actualidad



PwC New Zealand

• New Zealand
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director Sustainability and Climate Change

  • jun. de 2021 - - actualidad



British foreign and commonwealth office

• Pacific regional climate change attachè

  • mar. de 2020 - jun. de 2021

  I led the UK in New Zealand climate change strategy ahead of COP26 with key campaigns; finance, sustainable agriculture, energy, transport and indigenous voices. I had the opportunity to deliver a number of exciting, ambitious initiatives including:· Securing opportunities to influence the climate change narrative in New Zealand. Including conceptualizing and delivering the Build Back Better Conference, key notes at the NZ Business in Climate Change Conference, Private Equity Conference, Aotearoa Circle hui, screening of the David Attenborough movie with a panel discussion with WWF, launch of GroundUp.earth and Race-to-Zero events. · Commissioning research to understand the NZ climate change landscape, UK positioning in the Pacific, and identify influencing levers for enhanced climate action.· Leading a project to develop a conceptual framework for UK in New Zealand working with te ao Māori on climate change.



Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)

• New Zealand
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Policy Analyst - International Policy Division

  • sept. de 2016 - mar. de 2020

  I was lead for the international agriculture and climate change portfolio for the NZ Ministry for Primary Industries. This multifacted role involved engagement as NZ's representative in international climate change meetings, agriculture negotiations and fora that engaged debate on the reduction of greenhouse gases from agriculture.I also co-chaired the Agriculture Initiative for the Climate and Clean Air Coalition which has 100+ members from Government, industry, NGO's and global financial institutions. This involved raising the profile of agriculture as a solution to climate change, identifying opportunities to develop project ideas to deliver the strategy and work-plan and raising significant funds for implementation at scale.



United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation

• Senior Project Coordinator

  • oct. de 2014 - sept. de 2016

  I led a global project on direct and indirect GHG emissions from livestock. The project focused on the technical mitigation options available in developing regions and assesed the potential and feasibility of the mitigation options on farm with consideration for the constraints to adoption of mitigation packages. I worked with scientists, farmer organisations, policy experts to develop mitigation packages focusing on improved efficiency in developing regions that offer synergies between emission reduction, increased productivity, and other environmental objectives such as reduced land degradation. The project spanned 14 developing countries.



New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre

• New Zealand
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations manager - International

  • sept. de 2010 - sept. de 2016

  I managed the day-day research management operations for New Zealand’s contribution to the international initiative the ‘Global Research Alliance’. I developed robust transparent research management processes to manage $25m of research contracts on behalf of the Government. I provided strategic advice on national and international research collaborations, intellectual property and capability building initiatives. I managed relationships that spanned 37countries, all research organisations in New Zealand and Government Agencies (MPI, MfE, MFAT and Treasury).



Massey University

• New Zealand
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, Research strategy and policy

  • sept. de 2005 - sept. de 2010

  At Massey University I facilitated the development of the inaugural University Research Strategy, implemented the strategy for the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) 2012 and initiated a transdisciplinary Research Platform in Sustainability. In 2009-10 I assisted researchers to secure $22 million in competitive government funding. I wrote the paper outlining the strategic direction of research 2008 – 2012 for the in-coming Vice Chancellor. Working as a project manager on special projects in 2007, I increased University income by $5 million over a six-month period.