The 2007 ANZSEE Conference " Re-inventing Sustainability: A climate for change" 3-6 July 2007

Information about Conference Presenters

Benjamin Preston currently works as a research scientist in the Climate
Impacts & Risk stream of the CSIRO Division of Marine & Atmospheric
Research, where his research focus is the development of tools for
assessing the social and environmental risks of climate change. In
addition, Dr. Preston is active in communicating climate risk to a broad
array of stakeholders and guiding thinking regarding how to manage risk.
Prior to joining CSIRO, Dr. Preston was a Senior Research Fellow with
the Pew Centre on Global Climate Change in Washington, DC, USA where he
provided scientific advice to policymakers, the media, and the general
public on climate change science. His background also includes research
experience in environmental toxicology, public health and environmental
justice. Educated in the United States, Dr. Preston received a BSc from
the College of William & Mary and a PhD from the Georgia Institute of
Technology.

John Dryzek is Professor in the Political Science Program, Research
School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He is a
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, former Head of
the Departments of Political Science at the Universities of Oregon and
Melbourne and the Social and Political Theory program at ANU, and former
editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science. He is best known
for his contributions in the areas of democratic theory and practice and
environmental politics. One of the instigators of the 'deliberative
turn' in democratic theory, he has published four books in this area
with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Polity
Press. His work in environmental politics ranges from green political
philosophy to studies of environmental discourses, movements, and
policies, and he has published three books in this area with Oxford
University Press and Basil Blackwell. More recently he has extended his
deliberative approach into global politics, and co-edited The Oxford
Handbook of Political Theory.

Rick Humpries In February 2005, Rick was appointed as Rio Tinto Aluminium's Climate
Change Manager based in Brisbane where he is responsible for
"operationalising" Rio Tinto Aluminium''s climate change strategy. This
strategy involves driving greenhouse gas reduction programmes across Rio
Tinto Aluminium's sites, pursuing greenhouse gas offset opportunities
and life cycle analysis, enhancing Rio Tinto's research into zero or low
emission electricity generating technologies and engaging external
stakeholders around climate change policy development and advocacy.
Rick's completed an Environmental Science degree at Griffith University
in Brisbane in 1984. Rick has had extensive experience working in the
non-government environment sector including Greenpeace International,
Greenpeace Sweden, Greenpeace Australia, The Australian Conservation
Foundation and The Wilderness Society

Between 1999 and 2004 Rick worked as a senior consultant with Ecos
Corporation and Sydney-based sustainability consultancy. Prior to that
he worked for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

Bernie Napp worked for several years as a news reporter and feature writer
for daily newspapers in Wellington, New Zealand, before joining the
Department of Conservation's external relations group in 2003. While at The
Evening Post and later The Dominion Post, he covered science, environment
and conservation issues, including climate change, genetic engineering and
medical research. In 2003 he received a science writing award from
AgResearch, one of New Zealand's crown research institutes, and was part of
a science exhibition at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. At DOC, Bernie
Napp developed an introductory media training course for staff which he has
taken around the country, and presented to the Office of the Parliamentary
Commissioner for the Environment in Wellington. He was recently elected
chair of Wellington Access Radio, where he is also a volunteer broadcaster.

Lynette Thorstensen is the Group Head of Sustainable Business Practices at
Insurance Australia Group. IAG published its first Sustainability Report in November
2004, which was released as a companion document to the Annual General Report.
In January this year, IAG was announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos as
one of the top 100 Sustainability companies in the world. IAG was also awarded the
‘Ethical Investor’ award for Australian Sustainable Company of the Year for 2006.
Lynette’s career to date has spanned the community, government and private sectors.
She is a former CEO of Greenpeace Australia and a former Director of Greenpeace
International’s Climate Change Campaign based in Amsterdam. Lynette worked for
three years in the Premier’s Department New South Wales as the Director of Social
Development and Environment. In this role she oversaw a large number of ‘whole of
government’ partnerships on behalf of the Premier.

Lynette is a Board member of the Sydney Community Foundation and Greenpeace
Australia Pacific. She is also a mother of two young children and tries to lead a sane
and balanced life!

Steve Hatfield-Dodds is the Convenor of the CSIRO Integration Network
and the President of the Australia and New Zealand Society for
Ecological Economics (ANZSEE). Trained in economics and philosophy, his
previous career includes positions in The Allen Consulting Group,
Commonwealth Treasury, Department of Environment and Heritage, and the
Australian National University.

His research interests focus on the implications of integrated
approaches to motivation and wellbeing for public policy, particularly
the development of responsive governance, the design of socially
attractive incentive based environmental policies, and the role of
communication and knowledge in resolving wicked problems. The main
application areas for this research are climate change policy and
natural resource governance.

Steve was an advisor to the Business Leaders Roundtable on Climate
Change, which launched The Business Case for Early Action in April 2006.
His research and public policy contributions were recognized by his
inclusion in The Bulletin magazine's inaugural 'Smart 100' list of
leading Australian innovators (October 2003). More information is
available from www.csiro.au/integration
<http://www.csiro.au/integration> .

* The use of experimental economics to assist in the management of
natural resources, particularly the environmental and economic effects
of water trading
* The development of experimental methodologies, suitable for
remote field application, to assess natural resource market exchange
* The development of natural resource accounting and valuation
systems
* Estimating and comparing the economic values of timber
extraction and non-market recreation and biophysical processes of native
forests.

Wendy Proctor works for the Policy and Economic Research Unit
<http://www.clw.csiro.au/research/society/peru/> which is part of the
Society, Economy and Policy <http://www.clw.csiro.au/research/society/>
research theme.

Wendy's main interest is in decision analysis and particularly in the
application of participatory methods to enhance environmental
management. This also involves techniques to enable the integration of
varied research components as well as dealing with often conflicting
stakeholder values. Her recent research combined participatory and
deliberative processes with formal, multi-criteria decision aiding
techniques. Her qualifications are in agricultural economics (B.Ag.Ec.,
UNE), quantitative methods in economics at the postgraduate level
(M.Ec., Sydney) and a PhD in ecological economics (PhD, ANU).

Leith Boully has been involved in natural resource management
(particularly water) at local, State and National levels for about 20
years. Leith and her family have an irrigation and grazing property at
Dirranbandi in Queensland.

She served for 2 terms as Chairman of the Community Advisory Committee
to the Murray Darling Basin Ministerial Council. She is a founding
member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and has been
appointed as Adjunct Professor with the Centre for Ecological Economics
and Water Policy at UNE and the School of Natural and Rural Systems
Management at UQ. She is currently Chairman of the Center for Rural and
Regional Innovation, FarmBis Qld and the Lower Balonne Water Resources
Ministerial Advisory Council. She is also a board member of Murrumbidgee
Irrigation Ltd and the Cotton Research and Development Corporation.