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Roger Beale | Dr Ruth Beilin | Paul Curnow | The Hon. Ros Kelly (Chair)
Prof. Ian Lowe | Dr Graeme Pearman | Molly Robson

Roger Beale

Roger Beale, AO, is currently an Executive Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Roger has had a long involvement in the impacts of transport on environmental issues - in particular air quality and greenhouse.  He is an economist, a consultant and company director - and a motoring enthusiast.  

He was a long time head of the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage, and spent 20 years at department head level in the Commonwealth public service.  He has also been a Senior Associate at Allen Consulting Group.

Roger was a Lead Author with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its Fourth Assessment Report. These IPCC Reports provide governments around the globe with advice on climate science, climate impacts and adaptation strategies, and issues associated with the mitigation of greenhouse gases.

Dr Ruth Beilin

Dr Ruth Beilin is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne School of Land and Environment at the University of Melbourne.  She has 20 years of experience within the amalgamated institution, with a teaching and research position within the Department of Resource Management and Geography as a Landscape Sociologist.

Dr Beilin is also the Deputy Director of the Office for Environmental Programs (OEP) at the University of Melbourne.  OEP focuses on environmental education and research and offers flexible interdisciplinary courses through the Graduate Environmental Program.

Dr Beilin researches and writes on social and ecological systems, social resilience, community capacity and the creation of civic space in the landscape, visual sociology, catchment management, Landcare, social aspects of conservation and biodiversity, rural women and landscape policy.  The focus of her work to date is on everyday landscapes and 'ordinary' people - policy frameworks, planning institutions, resource use - in a landscape context centred on human interaction with 'space' and 'place'.

Paul Curnow

Paul Curnow is a Partner with Baker & McKenzie's Environment and Environmental Markets Practice.  Paul is an environmental and projects lawyer with a diverse range of commercial law and environmental policy experience, specialising in the development of environmental markets and commodities.  His particular focus is advising on the legal aspects of carbon markets and emissions trading, including drafting emissions reduction purchase agreements for CDM project credits, EU allowances, NGACs and other species of credits.  He also advises a range of carbon funds, as well as international organisations on aspects of the international climate change regime.

Paul joined Baker & McKenzie in Sydney in 1998.  He took a 3-year leave of absence to work for the Australian Greenhouse Office (now the Department of Climate Change) on international and domestic climate change policy.  In this role he represented the Australian Government at international climate change negotiations and managed a range of bilateral partnerships with countries such as China, the United States, New Zealand, Japan and the European Union.

The Hon. Ros Kelly (Chair)

Ros Kelly was a member of the Australian Parliament from 1980 to 1995.  She was Federal Minister for the Environment from 1990 to 1994.  She has worked as an Environmental Consultant from 1995 to the present time, and is a Director Thiess Pty Ltd and a Member of the International Council of Normandy Minerals. 

Prof. Ian Lowe

Ian Lowe, AO, is an internationally recognised expert on environmental issues, energy, science, technology and futures.  He has held senior advisory roles for all three levels of government and consulted extensively.  In 1998, he was named Australian Humanist of the Year and in 1991 delivered the Boyer Lectures for the ABC.  In 2000 he received the Queensland Premier's Millenium Award for Excellence in Science and the Prime Minister's Environmental Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement.  Ian Lowe is the Chairman of the Australian Conservation Foundation.  He writes a weekly column for New Scientist, has received a Eureka Award for Promotion of Science. 

Dr Graeme Pearman

Graeme Pearman AM, FAA, ATSE, FRoySocVic, BSc(Hon), PhD is Director, Graeme Pearman Consulting Pty Ltd and affiliated with Monash University and RMIT.

Awards: CSIRO Medal (1988); United Nation's Environment Program Global 500 Award (1989); Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (1988); Fellow, Royal Society of Victoria (1997); Australian Medal of the Order of Australia (1999); Federation Medal (2003); Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (2005).

Graeme personally conducted research on the global carbon budget; why atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases are changing.  He was science adviser to the Hon. Al Gore during his visits to Australia in 2006 and 2007, and during 2007-8 personally delivered over 150 briefings on climate change science to companies, governments, peak industry bodies and public fora.  He was voted in the 100 most influential Melbournians by The Age newspaper in 2007 and a participant in the 2020 Forum, April 2008.

His current interests and activities include: futures energy and transport technologies; sustainability and sustainability science; scientific capacity building; the role of behavioural science in the climate-change issue; and science in modern societies.

Molly Robson

Molly Robson is a former Minister for Environment & Heritage in the Queensland Government and works as a specialist consultant to business and government, advising on environmental, government relations, community consultation and management issues, policy development and strategic planning.

Molly's background is in corporate management working with large engineering consultancies and community organisations.  She is a member of the management committee of the Queensland Trust for Nature.