About

Manager ,
KPMG Climate Change and Sustainability Practice

Summary

Lisa is a manager within KPMG’s Climate Change and Sustainability practice. She as over fourteen years experience quantifying and developing solutions to mitigate the impacts from climate change and sustainability. As a civil engineer specialising in climate change and sustainability, Lisa has worked with asset owners to determine how they are best positioned to respond to the impacts of climate change. She has extensive experience interpreting climate models and has worked closely with CSIRO to run specific climate models for clients. She applies her knowledge to understand and consider the risks and uncertainty of climate change to guide and inform decision making for business and government. She has worked across the major infrastructure phases, design, construction and operation, and assets, from buildings, roads, mines, water, costal settlements, electricity to rail. She has practical design and construction experience, which she has applied to develop design solutions to mitigate the short and long term risks posed by climate change. Lisa knows how to evaluate the costs and benefits of adaptation to determine the most optimal adaptation solution (i.e. optimising investment decisions).

Qualifications and credentials
Bachelor of Business, Completed
Bachelor of Engineer (Civil), Completed
Green Building Council of Australia Green Star accredited assessor, Completed, Green Building Council
NABERS accredited assessor, Completed, NABERS
RIMT University, Life Cycle Assessment, Completed, RIMT University
Swinburne University, Carbon Management, Completed, Swinburne University
English, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent
Work experience
Gender mainstreaming
Climate financing specialist
Economist (cost-benefit analysis of CC)
Civil engineering (hard and soft engineering solutions)
Community development specialist
Proposal writing/Report writing
Capacity building specialist
Environmental and social safeguards specialist
KPMG, Manager, Australia, Australia, Manager, Impact of climate change over the Australian Defence Force, Undertook a study for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to identify the impact of climate change on the ADF’s missions, resources and infrastructure., Australia, Manager, Economic framework for analysis of climate change adaptation options, Developed an economic framework for assessing the costs and benefits of adaptation options (called the economic framework for analysis of climate chan, Australia, SME, Infrastructure Interdependencies and Business-Level Impacts, KPMG, in partnership with RPS and the Climate Institute, developed a report that examined the physical impacts of climate change on the infrastructur
AECOM, Senior Consultant, Australia, Australia, Manager, Climate change risks and impacts: Coastal Settlements, Quantified the financial impacts from increased flooding over an urban costal settlement around Narrabeen Lagoon, north of Sydney and identified adapt, Australia, Manager, Costing the impacts of climate change: for a Water Authority, Determined the infrastructure capex and opex requirements for Central Highlands Water (a Water Authority) to ensure the ongoing security of water supp, Australia, Manager, Selection of climate change adaptation options: Urban Commuter Rail Networks, Identified and selected solutions to mitigate the impact of increased heatwaves over the operation and maintenance of Melbourne’s urban commuter rail , Australia, Manager, Climate change review and assessment: A mine, Led a climate change review and assessment into the Port Pirie Rare Earth Treatment Plant and Radium Hill Uranium Mine for the South Australian Govern