Cameron Brown – Chair

Cameron has been working to develop the Centre for Sustainability Leadership since 2006. As Chair, he has focused on developing the board, creating sustainable funding models and setting the strategic direction for the organisation. Cameron manages the Sustainable Solutions Unit at EPA Victoria. He participated in the Federal Government’s Australia–Korea Young Leaders Exchange Program in 2007 and was a recipient of a 2008 Future Summit Leadership Award.

Email: cameron.brown@epa.vic.gov.au
Phone: 0423 189 146

Phillip Kingston – Vice Chair

Phillip Kingston is the Managing Director of Kingston Development, an emerging software and consulting company. He is interested in the marketability and business case of sustainability, and in new-world governance. He is member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves on a number of private company boards.

Alison Dodd- Secretary

Alison Dodd is a legal policy officer with the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment, working in the area of climate change policy and legislation. She is also commercial lawyer, practising most recently at DLA Phillips Fox in the areas of climate change, environmental and infrastructure law. One of Alison’s passions is climate change and, in particular, figuring out how the law, policy, business and the community can work effectively together respond to the huge challenges that climate change presents. Alison is also involved in a number of other not-for-profit associations, including as Victorian Vice President of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ) and as a Policy Officer in the area of climate change policy with the International National Trusts Organisation (INTO).

Megan Gourlay – Treasurer

Megan Gourlay is Group Finance Manager of an ASX listed Australian manufacturing company. She is a Chartered Accountant, is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and holds a Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) from RMIT University. Megan has a background in external audit having worked for Ernst & Young and Arthur Andersen. At the Centre for Sustainability Leadership, Megan’s role is to make sure that from a financial stand point, the Centre is beyond reproach.

James Gifford – Board Member

James Gifford is the Executive Director for Principles for Responsible Investment, a joint project of UNEP
Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact. He has lead the initiative since its inception in 2003, and was also a member of the Global Reporting Initiative Working Group that developed environmental indicators for the finance sector. Moreover, he has completed a PhD in Economics at the University of Sydney on the effectiveness of shareholder engagement in changing corporate behaviour. James has a background in law, IT and environmental protection.

Rachel Lowry – Board Member

Rachel is a trained Zoologist, and is Community Conservation Manager for Zoos Victoria. Merging her conservation and education training, Rachel develops and implements community conservation programs that influence sustainable behaviour change. Rachel has developed award winning conservation education programs that have tackled sustainability issues both locally and globally. Her most recent project invites the community to tackle the coltan mining issue threatening gorilla’s in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Rachel sits on the International Zoo Educators (IZE) board as well as the board for the Centre of Sustainability Leadership and is looking forward to working with the next generation of environmentally responsible leaders to create a future that supports the needs of all living species (humans included!).

Glenn Bartlett – Board Member

Glenn Bartlett spent the first 10 years of his career working in advertising and marketing for the likes of Saatchi &
Saatchi, AMV BBDO, Nestle and Unilever.

It was at Unilever, while pondering a pot of noodles that everything changed for him. He became aware of the Palm Oil crisis, the fate of Orangutans, and the deadly role of his seemingly innocent noodles. It didn’t take long for Glenn to realise this was only the thin end of sustainability crisis wedge, and set out to do something about it.

Two years of exploration and study later, Glenn now realises it’s not a lack of knowledge that’s the issue, but a lack of leadership and communication. This realisation has Glenn heading back to the world of advertising, determined to use the dark art for good, by linking sustainability causes and brands for mutual benefit.

In an effort to better understand the business case for sustainability, Glenn has just written NAB’s 2009 Corporate Responsibility Report.

Larissa Brown – Board Member and Executive Director

Larissa Brown is the 2008 Australian Young Environmentalist of the Year and the Founder of the Centre for Sustainability Leadership.

Larissa has personally interviewed 100 of the world’s greatest sustainability leaders across twenty countries and 5 continents on what it takes to cause real systemic change towards a sustainable world. She is a member of the Ministers Reference Council on Climate Change Adaptation which advises the State Environment Minister, participated in the Prime Minister’s 2020 Summit in 2008 and has worked as a research scientist at the Australian National University.

Awards include: the 2009 Australian Geographic Young Conservationist of the Year; being named as one of Melbourne 100 most influential people and one of Melbourne’s ten most influential environmentalists by The Age Magazine in 2007; the 2006 British Council award for Communicating Climate Change and the 2006 Brian Robinson Fellowship. She was selected to represent Asian and Pacific youth at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali in 2007.

Email: Larissa.brown@csl.org.au
Phone: 0402 128 996 (mob)

Meet the Centre for Sustainability Leadership Management Team