GRI Stakeholder Council Oceania (Vice Chair) GRI Focal Point Australia (Chair) Environment Institute of Australia and New Zeenaland (EIANZ) Association for Sustainability in Business (ASB) International Association for Public Participation (IAP2 The Total Environment Centre – Board member The Climate Institute – Climate Partner Green Cross Australia – Business Adaptation Network Infrastructure Sustainability Council Australia – Founding member Asian Pacific Network for Climate Adaptation
Director - Environment Policy of Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) Sydney, Australia; key negotiator to provide policy advice to the Minister of Climate
Executive Director - Environment at Hornsby Shire Council, Hornsby Australia
Senior Researcher, Sustainability at Institute for Sustainable Futures, ISF, Sydney Australia
Legal Specialist (Climate Change/Environmental Law/MEAs)
Community Development Specialist
Proposal Writing
Community Trainer Specialist
Capacity building specialist
Environmental and social safeguards specialists
Countries of Work Experience: Australia, New Zealand USA Canada England Europe Union countries Japan South East Asia Pacific India Africa Brazil
Senior Executive -Sustainability and Climate Change at RPS Group. Worked with leading international and Australian organisations on a host of climate risk strategies. Role was to help clients understand the exposure, adaptive capacity and sensitivity of assets, operations, services, suppliers and communities to climate risks and to assist them in proactively improving their planning and preparedness. Role included providing training and mentoring in climate and sustainability across the private and public sector. Board member and Vice Chair of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Stakeholder Council for over six years representing Oceania – collaborating on corporate social responsibility (CSR) with governments, international agencies and leading companies across the globe. Chair of GRI Focal Point Australia over that same period. Member of the Asia Pacific Network for climate adaptation.
Responsible for managing a service line of 50 plus professional staff globally who provide sustainability services. Stella provided services to many of Australia’s top 100 companies on their sustainability performance and services; this work has included corporate social responsibility work. Stella lead consultancy advice to major public and private sector clients internationally on urban planning, green building, environment, CSR, Sustainability Strategy and GRI reporting. She led the development of tools, methodologies and protocols, and was also responsible for the oversight of GHD’s 2009 CSR Reporting framework, including an advisory role to GHD Board. While at GHD Stella was responsible for many of the firm’s strategic partnerships, including the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – both the global network and the GRI Focal Point Australia based at the Saint James Ethics Centre.
Key Government’s negotiator with major local government, corporate, industry and other stakeholders on complex environment, planning and sustainability reforms. Provided policy advice to the Minister of Climate
Change, Water and the Environment, as well as the Premier, Planning, Local Government, Health and Transport Ministers. This advice spanned a large variety of policies, strategies or legislative changes. Pioneered climate change adaptation plans (COAG National Climate Change Adaptation Framework) and led the publication of NSW State of the Environment Report as well as running water and air community education campaigns (Water for Life, greenhouse and Clear the Air Campaigns. Responsible for the delivery of major multi-million dollar environmental and sustainability programs including the Sustainability Advantage, Clean Air Fund, the Stormwater Trust and more recently work on the Urban Sustainability Program and Clean Air Healthy Communities Fund
While working at Hornsby Shire Council, was responsible for a April 2009 Australia Director -Environment department of 140 staff and managing a budget of AUD 23 million. Within this position was responsible for the planning and delivery of Council’s environment services, strategy and policy development. Role also included the delivery of award-winning sustainability initiatives and projects.
Established the ISF Local Government Unit from scratch -a small scientist and professional team.
In the first year of operation of the Unit generated > $400k consultancy income. The Unit undertook research and consultancy for broad range of clients on sustainable development, community development community, water, transport, waste, energy and environmental policy. Project included environmental management reviews and sustainability reporting for wide range of business, government and local council clients. Responsibilities included leading a pioneering action research project on local sustainability involving a large number of key councils in NSW and was author of the Commonwealth Local Agenda 21 Manual (1999).
Countries of Work Experience: India
Project Manager for Nexant Inc; Prepare budget for project, prepare progress reports for client. Facilitating stakeholder consultation. Developing innovative financing instruments and market deployment strategies for up-scaling re technologies for rural, commercial and industrial sectors in India
Project Manager for Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation in 2013-2014; Map the International sources of climate finance. Provide recommendation for setting appropriate institutional structure for effective climate finance
Project Manager for UNDP in 2013-2014; Develop a detailed financial resource assessment for implementing recommendations and strategies in the MP SAPCC;
Estimate the finance that need to be invested for fully operationalizing the strategies proposed for identified sectors
Classify the sectoral recommendation and identify the fund requirement for each activity
Identification of financial options and gap-filling strategies by assessing current budgetary allocations/expenditure of the department; working on issues falling within these sectors, to explore funds that could be made available for implementation
Development of plan of action along with details on the methodology proposed to be used for making the estimates of financial requirements
Project Coordinator for IKEA Trading Pty Ltd, India; - Set up a Project Monitoring Unit comprising of a Field Coordinator, Project Officer and a team of village level motivators
Worked closely with beneficiaries to understand their problems related to energy and health
Planned and organized mass awareness generation campaigns for beneficiaries, students, financial institutions, entrepreneurs, electricians and mechanics
Promoted and customized solar home lighting systems and centralized charging stations
Solar street lights and a solar water pump were installed for irrigation and drinking water supply in one village as part of a larger mandate to set up a model solar village
Project Coordinator for European Commission in 2005-2007; -Co-operation between India and European Union. Encourage both technology transfer and investment flows. Direct beneficiaries for both the ethanol and biodiesel sector were farmers; sugar industry; oil expelling/processing companies; urban areas (due to clean environment); and the country as a whole as a result of savings in foreign exchange and CDM opportunities for the country. Partnership with EU organizations ensured value addition by bringing forth the knowledge, experience, management, and technologies to India
Editorial Coordinator for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy 2009-2011; UNDP/GEF supported a major Biomass Energy based project with the Ministry for New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
Raise awareness level about the technical and other aspects of biomass energy under a major capacity building initiative among all possible stakeholders
Raise awareness and coverage of technological, operational, financial and regulatory aspects of various biomass conversion technologies such as combustion, cogeneration, gasification and biomethanation
Grant Administrator; Developed the Operational manual to provide grants. Promote program through web based technologies and other networks to ensure active participation of renewable energy enterprises to submit proposals. Careful screening of applications and developing a decision matrix to arrive at results. Preparation of contract documents to follow up on project deliverables of sub-grantees, clearing financial payments of sub-grantees
Expert at UNFCCC for Registration and Issuance
Expert for CDM Methodology Review
Member at Project Developer Forum
Expert at Partnership for Market Readiness; a World Bank Initiative for capacity building and piloting of new market based tools for GHG reduction
Countries of Work Experience: India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Lao, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Nigeria
Project Head UNDP 2014; To develop a detailed financial resource assessment for implementing the recommendations and strategies outlined in the Madhya Pradesh (MP) State Action Plan (SAPCC:
- Estimate the finances (direct as well as indirect) that need to be invested for fully operationalizing the strategies proposed for identified sectors
- Classify the sectoral recommendation and identify the fund requirement in for each activity and the sources for them.
- Identification of financing options and gap-filling strategies by assessing current budgetary allocations/expenditure of the departments working on issues falling within these sectors, to explore funds that could be made available for implementation
- Development of plan of action along with details on the methodology proposed to be used for making the estimates of financial requirements.
Project Leader for Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation 2014, Main objective is to map the international sources of climate finance which India could potentially access and provide a comparative analysis with other peer developing countries to gauge India’s preparedness to access International Climate finance and provide recommendations for setting appropriate institutional structure for effective climate fiance
Project Leader for GIZ 2013; Preparation of Activity Data and Selection of
Emission Factors for these sectors in Mexico to generate the emission data base and Emission Inventory
Emission of F-gases and preparation of a ‘NAMA Project’ for F-gases in Mexico
Project Leader at National Environment Commission Government of Bhutan 2013; Performed a situational analysis formulating and implementing NAMAs in Housing; Transport & Waste management sectors and LEDS in Transport and Industrial sectors and the related MRV functions. Profiling of the baseline scenario in the relevant sectors including social, gender, poverty and environmental issues. Integrated gender issues/ recommendations from the gender rapid assessment. Preparation of capacity development work plan and timeline on capacity needs assessment implementation and delivery in technical, social and operational aspects. Identification of SMART (ie Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and time-specific) capacity development indicators that the NEC could use.
Project Coordinator for the Ministry of Urban Development 2013; To estimate the improvement in GHG emissions in each of the SUTP cities due to the implementation of the demonstration projects and related co-benefits (air, noise and safety). To build capacity in the SUTP project cities to carry out systemic energy assessments of urban transport systems as well as generate locally relevant information regarding environmentally soundness and sustainability
of the cities’ transportation interventions.
Project Leader for UNDP & State of Jharkhand; Identified the sectors that are likely to be impacted by the temperature and precipitation changes in the long run. Consultation and coordination with the climate advisory, coordination team for preparing the state action plan. Developed a road map for state to adapt climate change. Developed the SAPCC document.
Project Leader Technology needs Assessment for Bhutan 2011: Identification Prioritization and Action Plan preparation for GHG reduction. Technologies for country of Bhutan Under the Technology Needs Assessment (TNA), Project under UNFCCC for non Annex countries and consistent with Guidelines of UNEP Risoe Center
Project Leader Policy Study on bio fuel assessments and development plan for Lao PDR, Ministry of Energy and Mines 2013.
Project Leader, EVI National Solar Power Development Program. Leader of EVI Development of methodology AMS IIIAF “Shift from high carbon Intensive fuel mix ratio to low Carbon intensive fuel mix ratio
Project Leader, Registration of CDM projects with UNFCCC and othe GHG protocols 2005-2013.
Research Assistant, University of Hawaii Sea Level Center, Hawaii USA
Research Scientist, Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences
Research Scientist, Institute for Research and Development, New Caledonia
Countries of Work Experience: Australia,Indonesia, Maldives, Hawaii (USA), Guam (USA), CNMI, France, Bermuda, New Caledonia, Fiji
Countries concerned (period 1998-2008) : Hawaii, Guam, CNMI, Indonesia
Coastal hazards studies (Typhoons, wave and tsunamis).
Tide gauge maintenance and installation
Academic research on sea-level trends and extremes
Research Scientist: Implementation of the tsunami warning system in close collaboration with the Bermuda Meteorological Services
Countries concerned (period 2010-2014) : New Caledonia
Coastal hazards studies (Typhoons, wave and tsunamis).
Tide gauge maintenance and installation
Academic research on sea-level trends and extremes
Project Manager - PIGGAREP; Energy Coordinator - Ministry of Finance, Samoa; Senior Research Officer - Energy, Economic Policy and Planning Division, Ministry of Finance; Manage delivery of national and regional activities of the project in 14 Pacific Island Countries; Project coordination and reporting, strategic planning, policy and implementation strategy formulation, project management and procurement, monitoring and evaluation and capacity building; Foster and establish strong links with all project partners and other related programmes and projects in the Pacific; Widespread dissemination of PIGGAREP best practices and experiences and raising the PIGGAREP profile and SPREP; Energy Coordinator - Establishment of the Energy Demand and Supply (EDS) database and publication of the Energy Review Reports (ERR); Coordinate and manage the upgrading of the Petroleum Tank Farm Facilities and Rationalization of Petroleum Supplies
- Establish a structural process and criteria for issuance and renewal of petroleum licensing; Coordinate and manage all national energy projects including national activities for regional energy projects - Implement project on upgrading the petroleum facilities; Research Officer - Establish and maintain a computer-based economic statistical base; Collect, process and disseminate IMF-based government financial statistics; Coordinate with line departments the collection and systemizing of economic indicator; Coordinate in collaboration with the Statistics Department; sample surveys for economic development purpose
- Assist with the compilation of national, accounts and balanced of payments data; Prepare analytical and appraisal reports; Assist in the preparation of national development plans, sector plans and project evaluation reports
1. Formulation, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes of ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change and mitigation programmes
- Coordination of inception phases for Global Environment Facility & Adaptation Fund- Formulate and design logical framework; - Design specific, measureable, attainable, relevant, time-bound (SMART) Indicators; - M & E frameworks - Management and institutional arrangements - Multi-year and annual work plans - Management of co-financing issues - Response to Global Environment Facility comments on submitted project documents
- Administrative Support - Definition of TOR’s, procurement, recruitment and contract management - Management reports consultation on ATLAS (UNDP project management system) - Budget allocation and budget revision - Monitoring and evaluation support - Strategic programming - Ensure consistence of projects outcomes and objectives with UN Development Assistance Framework regional priorities and outcomes - Technical review of relevant documents to match Global Environment Facility - Knowledge management and communication - Client focused relationship
2. Support the management of Global Environment Facility and Adaptation Fund projects Familiarization with project cycle, allocation mechanisms, processes and reporting procedures
3. Assist World Bank Team in elaboration of Post-Disaster Need Assistance document in response to Cyclone Evan (Samoa, 2012)
Tutor in Justice Studies at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AustraliaDirector for Indigenous Employment Strategy and Policy at the Queensland Government Department of Employment, Economic Development and InnovationDirector - Office of the Director-General at the Queensland Government DepartmentExecutive Officer - Office of the Deputy Director-General Governance at Queensland Government Department of Premier and CabinetPrincipal Policy Officer - Disaster Management Project Team at Queensland Government Department of Emergency ServicesCountries of Work Experience: Australia, Tonga, VanuatuEstablishment of Black Business Finder online database, Brisbane, Jan 2011 to March 2012 Assessment of Skilling Queenslanders for Work critical success factors, Jan to March 2012 Queensland Government epartments membership of Australian Indigenous Minority Supplier Council, 2010 to 2012 Developing policy to increase Indigenous employment in Queensland Government procurement, 2009 to 2012 Assessment of the Indigenous Business Development Program, 2010 Representation on the Western Cape Communities Co-existence Agreement Committee, 2009 to 2012Developed policy on cyclones, floods, tsunamis, pandemics, exotic animal disease, terrorism and all hazards Implemented lessons learned from Tropical Cyclone Larry in far north Queensland Advised Queensland’s peak body, the State Disaster Management Group, on disaster risk management policy and operations Coordinated the Premier’s Cyclone Summit and visits from international delegationsDeveloped policy and plans on pandemic influenza, terrorism and all hazardsAdvised Queensland’s peak body, the State Disaster Management Group, on disaster risk management policy andoperations
Member of Linnean Society of London (FLS)
Visiting Fellow of Nottingham Trent University, UK
Officer for Environmental Science for the government of Tuvalu Honorary Ambassador
Project Team Leader for PACE-SD USP, Suva Fiji
Leading the 8 million Euro European Union Global Climate Change Alliance Project. Working in 15 P-ACP countries. http://eugcca.usp.ac.fj/Home.aspx
Principal Supervisor for 7 MSc & 3 PhD students plus 2MSc completions in 2012. Developing and delivering courses for PGDip in Climate Change. Developing a new programme for PGDip Disaster Risk Management. Developing and administering "on-line" resources for full delivery of these courses to studnets in isolated small-island nation states (USP has 12 campuses in nations across the Pacific). Face-to-face teaching on various postgraduate and undergraduate courses as and when required.
Responsible for the proper and timely coordination, management and implementation of the project “Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change in the Pacific Islands through Training, Applied Research and Community Engagement”. The project ambit consists of 15 Pacific nations, 11 of which have a USP campus. CCA adaptation plans and activities in 43 communities.
Member of various committees: Research Committee; Academic Standards; Academic Audit (Research); Faculty Programming (designing new undergraduate "Environmental Science" programme); organizing committee for 4 international conferences (Local Governance and Climate Change; Pacific Climate Services Forum; 12th Pacific Science Inter-congress; 2nd International Renewable Energy and Climate Change Conference).
Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK
Lecturing and development of Undergraduate modules: “Sustainability” and “Rural Communities and Planning”. Lecturing on Post Grad MA International Relations: Theories, Practices and Policy. Supervision of undergraduate students; setting & marking coursework. School of Animal, Rural & Environmental Science Research Committee. Secured SPUR funding for research in Tuvalu
Scientific Advisor for Alofa Tuvalu (French-Tuvaluan NGO)
Author of the renewable energy technology component of the 10-year “Small Is Beautiful” project, Tuvalu.
Currently implementing renewable energy related sustainable development/environmental management & adaptation activities in Tuvalu (biogas, biodiesel, gasification, solar pv & thermal, wind). Selected as one of UNESCO’s decade of achievement projects.
Preparing funding proposals & securing funding.
Programme Manager for Cusichaca Trust, UK
Planning projects and devising/implementing/evaluating strategies for natural resource management, sustainable development & adaptation of rural Highland Peru. Major environmental management project - completed in September 2007 - research, agricultural extension and rehabilitation of land, vegetation, Inca terraces & irrigation systems in the Pampachiri District, Peru. Defining and implementing management structures and systems of an NGO with 40 full-time employees. Directing research and funding programmes, securing funding (1,500,000 Euro - EU, DFID & Community Fund).
Member of International Physiological Society
Member of French Association of Scientific Divers
Research Scientist in Marine Biodiversity for the Institut de Recherche pour le Development (IRD)
Research Scientist for the University of California at Berkeley Moorea Field Station, French Polynesia
Countries of Work Experience: Fiji, Japan, French Polynesia, USA, France, New Caledonia, Cook Islands, Wallis
Member of Siosiomaga Organisation of Samoa
Treasurer of Goshen Trust Board
Member of Woman Floriculture Club of Lautoka Fiji
Manager at Micro Finance Unit, Lautoka, Fiji
Lecturer in Agriculture/Horticulture and Business Manager APS, Samoa
Countries of Work Experience: Fiji, Hawaii
Education and Researcher for the University of New Caledonia
Countries of Work Experience: France, Austria, Germany, New Caledonia
Description: Funded by French Minister of overseas this project aims at discovering and modeling the dynamic of dengue epidemics. This study focuses
on New Caledonia and Nouméa city.
Description: Funded by CNRT (National Center of Technological research), this project studies quantification of upstream flows and their impact on downstream
transport of solid matter in different geomorphoclimatic contexts.
Description: Funded by French National Research Agency (ANR), this project aims at providing to geologists a semi--automatic and complete process for monitoring soil erosion. This process will be based on multi--temporal very high
resolutions satellite images coupled with digital elevation model (DEM), sensor data and/or expert knowledge. The project will focus more precisely on two important aspects of this process: segmentation of satellite images based on collaborative methods, and construction of descriptive (patterns, clustering, …) and predictive (decision trees, …) spatio-- temporal models. New methods, algorithms and softwares on environmental data will be proposed to assist
experts in their knowledge discovery.
Collaboration in the dry forest program with Agronomic Institute of New Caledonia
Description: This project funded by KNS (Koniambo Nickel SAS) is a preliminary project on environmental data warehousing and knowledge discovery. It aims at investigating spatial and temporal data warehouses (SOLAP: Spatial On-Line Analytical Processing) solutions on an hydrological and marine databases. It involves the implementation of a data warehouse in order to cross thematic data: hydrogeological data, marine data etc.
Associate Member for the IPES 2006-2008Assets Engineer for Samoa Water Authority, Apia SamoaAssistant Engineer for OSM Consultant Ltd, SamoaProject Engineer for Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Suva FijiCountries of Work Experience: Tuvalu, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, FSM, PNG, Nauru, Samoa, Fiji, Palau, Niue, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, TongaGIS Specialist, Asset Management, System Manager, Leak Detector, International Water Representative, Project Manager and Office space Designer
Building Designer, Project Manager, Quality Controller, Residential building specialist, Steel Frame designer, GIS SpecialistProvide engineering and construction advice and logistical support to Papua New Guinea for 10 new remote seismic stations Facilitate design, Tender and supervise new reservoir and tank sheds in Nauru
Facilitate design and supervise 3 Emergency Operation Center’s in Solomon IslandsFacilitate design, Tender and Supervise new Emergency operation Centre for National Government Pohnpei and supervise four EOC renovations Federated States of MicronesiaDesign, Tender and Supervise 33 water borehole rehabilitation in Kingdom of Tonga, and Provide 150 RWH to outer Islands Provided engineering advice and project design and Tender and supervision of the supply of 300 Rain Water harvesting in Tuvalu Facilitate the design, tender and supply and construction of 900 Rain water tanks to the Marshall Islands Facilitate Design, Tender and Supervision of National Emergency and Management Office PalauIn providing the specialist advice and finalize all technical and Architectural design requirements for each country project and ensure that all relevant in-country building and construction protocols are met to the satisfaction of relevant local authorities. Serve as the principal officer in charge of procurement of all materials required for project construction. Responsible for the supervision of construction of facilities and may exercise this responsibility directly or be supported by the Project Manager in this regard. Contracting the responsibility to a qualified firm within each target country. Develop full specifications for the supervision contracts Assist Water Section of SPC on procurement water and piping construction. Assist the Project Manager in all planning, development of project documentation and specifications for construction, procurement of materials and equipment and services, preparation of project costs estimates and implementation schedules, monitoring and reporting on physical progress and assisting with reporting on financial expenditure.Develop terms of reference for the Review of National Building codes and Manual for Niue & Cook Island.