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Dan Gocher is the Director of Climate & Environment at the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR). ACCR is a research and advocacy organisation that engages with ASX-listed companies on a range of environment and social issues, including decarbonisation and climate-related lobbying. Dan spent fifteen years in investment banking and asset management, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney.
Dr Ken Henry, AC is a non-executive director of the Australian Securities Exchange, Cape York Partnership and Accounting for Nature Ltd. He is Chair of Wildlife Recovery Australia and the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation.
Ken is an economist and former public servant, serving as the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury from 2001 to 2011. Ken has been influential in Australian and international economics for much of his career. He has worked alongside both Labor and Liberal governments and represented Australia at numerous international and intergovernmental economic forums. He was also the Chair of National Australia Bank from 2015 to 2019.
Ken was awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia in 2007, for service to the development and implementation of economic and taxation policy, and for services to the community in the area of welfare and care of native wildlife. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Institute for International Affairs.
Professor Dirk Matten is a Professor at the Schulich School of Business in Canada, where he holds the Hewlett Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and is the Associate Dean of Research. He is also the founding director of Schulich’s Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business.
He has taught and conducted research at academic institutions in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Turkey, and the USA.
He has published 29 books and edited volumes as well as more than 90 journal articles and book chapters, which have won numerous prestigious awards. In August 2018, his paper with Jeremy Moon on ‘Implicit and Explicit CSR’ (2008) received the highly prestigious Academy of Management Review Paper of the Decade Award. In the same year he was also ranked #44 in the ‘Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders’ ranking (next to CEOs and CSR leaders of Unilever, Google and Apple. He was the only academic scholar on the list). In 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from his school as well as the York Research Leader Award.
Graeme Samuel is a corporate advisor with specialist expertise in competition and consumer policy and regulation, communications and media, corporate governance, strategic planning and public policy.
He was a member of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's inquiry into culture and accountability at the Commonwealth Bank, and chair of the panel which conducted a Capability Review of APRA.
He also conducted an Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. Graeme is Professor in the Monash Business School.
His former roles include Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Associate Member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority, President of the National Competition Council, and President of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Jodie Sizer is a Djap Wurrung/Gunditjmara woman, long time Torquay resident and the inaugural CEO of the Great Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority commencing in July 2021.
Jodie has held a prominent leadership role, advocating and leading community led impact and transformative change with Aboriginal communities and across broader society. She is a member of the Victorian Women’s Hall of Fame, noted as one of the AFR 100 women of influence and was the inaugural Dardi Indigenous Business Leadership Award recipient in Victoria.
Currently, Jodie is Vice President of the Collingwood Football Club and is the Chair of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Kelly Vea Vea has spent most of her life in Central Queensland coal communities. Her family has been in the Australian mining industry for four generations and her heritage spans back to the coalfields of Wales and Scotland. Kelly has lived in Moranbah for the last 15 years raising her family with her husband Blair who works in a local underground coal mine.
Kelly has served on the Isaac Regional Council since 2012 and was appointed Deputy Mayor in 2018. The Isaac Regional Council is the largest resource council in Queensland, home to 26 operating coal mines that generate over half of Queensland’s saleable coal, and one third of Australia’s metallurgical coal exports.
As a community activist and then on council Kelly, helped to successfully lobby the Queensland Government to legislate Social Impact Assessments for new mine developments. Mining companies now have legally binding conditions associated with their social impacts, along with environmental and planning approvals. Kelly and her council colleagues continue to work with state government on the framework to ensure local communities, workers and businesses benefit from the mining industry and projects they host, and that there is a shared understanding of the social licence to operate in their communities.
Dr Nikki Williams is a non-executive director of both Tellus Holdings and Neuroscience Research Australia and chairman of the NeuRA Foundation. She is an ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and patron of Women in Mining (NSW).
Previous roles include CEO and company secretary of the Australian Coal Association, the ACA Low Emission Technology Fund, the NSW Minerals Council and the Plastics and Chemical Industries Association.
Dr Williams has served as the coal industry shareholder overseeing the investments and performance of Coal Services PL and as a trustee of the AusCoal Superannuation Fund. Prior to her return to Australia, she held senior marketing and business development roles working the African, Asian and European geographies with Shell International, operating in both coal and LNG.
She started her career with Esso Australia as an industrial relations officer. She has expertise in the areas of climate change, energy and industry policy and trade negotiations.
Dr Williams has held an array of memberships throughout her career, including the Coal Industry Advisory Board of the International Energy Agency; CSIRO’s Energy Strategic Advisory Committee; Coal Innovation NSW; the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health Advisory Committee; the NSW Government’s Coal and Gas Strategy Reference Group and Ministerial Minerals Advisory Board; the Victorian Government’s Hazardous Waste Consultative Committee; and the Fund Board of the International Baccalaureate Organisation.
She was an accredited energy expert with the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe and chair of the Federal Government’s Industry Advisory Board for Chemicals. She holds a PhD in international relations in the field of terrorism.
Ali Moore has more than 25 years experience as a journalist and broadcaster, working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's Nine Network, and for the BBC's global news network, based in Singapore. She has covered major news and current affairs events across the region, reporting from Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China.
She is now a freelance broadcaster and journalist and a Vice Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne, working with Asialink.
In her more than two decades as a broadcaster Ali has interviewed key decision makers from a range of companies, industries and political theatres. Her previous roles include ABC China Correspondent, host of Australia's premier late night TV current affairs program Lateline, and anchor of some of the country's key business news programs (Business Sunday, Lateline Business).