Recording – The New Value Proposition

Mark is a Financial Services executive, with over 25 years experience including retail, business banking, corporate banking, operations and risk. Experience includes turnaround of underperforming business units and start-up of new divisions and includes full P&L responsibility.     Mark has a proven track record of consistent strong performance. A realistic optimist able to motivate teams and colleagues and collaborating broadly with a big picture and Enterprise mindset.    Mark is highly passionate and driven in achieving sustainable delivery for people, strategic and financial objectives. Recruitment and development of people is a core strength, with track record of prior reports now successfully undertaking key leadership roles. Consistently high engagement survey results achieved. 

Lucy is an Associate Professor at the QUT Law School. She has lectured to law, property economics, and other non-law students on ethics, intellectual property, and property related laws. Her research interests include property and technology related issues; the impacts of extreme events; as well as the impact of these in practice and for valuers. Lucy holds a current practising certificate as a solicitor, and has worked as a commercial and property lawyer. She is currently an Independent Chair for Queensland site valuation objections >$5 million; and is an Assistant Member of the Valuers Registration Board of Queensland.

David leads NAB’s Sustainable Finance team and has been active in sustainable debt financing for over 10 years, having joined NAB in 2010. He is a member of NAB’s Corporate & Institutional Banking Sustainability Steer Co and works closely with treasury, risk, coverage, product and markets teams developing and originating sustainable financing and investment solutions for NAB clients across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, UK, Europe and the USA.  He has over 20 years of financial markets experience across a range of product solutions, origination and structuring roles for banks in Sydney, Hong Kong, London and New York. David has worked with a broad range of clients including sovereigns, semi-governments, funds, financial institutions, corporates and securitisation issuers to establish their sustainable debt programmes.  The NAB Sustainable Finance team have arranged a broad range of innovative sustainable financing and investment solutions across a range of global markets including green, social, sustainability and sustainability linked bonds and loans, sustainability-linked derivatives, green deposits, green funds, green and social securitisations and green leasing solutions. David chairs the AFMA Sustainable Finance Committee and is an active member of numerous industry bodies including the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI), ICMA’s Green, Social and Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles, APLMA’s Green and Sustainability-linked Loans Committee, Climate Bonds Standards Industry working groups, Institute of International Finance (IIF) Sustainable Finance WG and the Australian Securitisation Forum ESG WG.  Prior to transitioning into banking David held senior project management and real estate development roles across Australia and the USA.  He holds an MBA (Finance) from London Business School, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment from FINSIA and a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from the University of Queensland.

With a decade’s experience working in ESG within the property sector, Ian utilises his intelligent insights and policy knowledge to inform and implement sustainable practices in EG’s fund strategies, policies and targets as well as manage the benchmarking and reporting of all EG’s ESG metrics.    His extensive industry engagement includes previously sitting on the PCA’s Sustainability Committee, ANREV’s Sustainability Committee, the City of Sydney’s Better Buildings Partnership, the IGCC’s Policy & Advocacy Working Group and the UNEPFI’s TCFD and Real Estate Working Groups.    Before joining EG, Ian held the role of Sustainability Manager at Investa Property Group for six years and was involved in climate change policy on an international scale, working on the UNFCCC’s Paris Agreement and its implementation Rulebook. As a qualified lawyer and civil engineer, he is well equipped to translate his passion for sustainability into meaningful action in responsible investment, community enrichment and environmental optimisation. 

Connor joined JLL in August 2015 in our London office before moving back to Sydney in 2021 and is responsible for growing JLL’s sustainability services throughout our operations in Australia & New Zealand. Connor is a subject matter expert in sustainable real estate and Environmental Social Governance (ESG).  Connor is also responsible for aligning JLL’s people and our clients to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. Prior to his role at JLL, Connor worked as a Sustainability Manager with Lendlease in their European Investment Management business and the GPT Group in Sydney and started his career as a sustainability consultant at EY. During his time in the UK, Connor advised some of the largest global Asset Managers on Net Zero, ESG strategy and sustainability reporting.

With a strong and successful background in real estate for over two decades, Chiara completed a Masters in Sustainability Studies at Curtin University and joined the two disciplines to evolve the green building revolution. Chiara’s career to date has been focused within the property sector, with more than 25 years as a real estate professional in marketing and sales and consultancy, and over 10 years leading change in sustainable development outcomes for the built form. Understanding business operations and management, Chiara has been co-founder and Director in a number of enterprises to date. Chiara has advised local government on ESD policy, consulted with State planning policy makers and led sustainability considerations in recent WA Strata Title Reforms, making it easier for body corporates to embed sustainability infrastructure. Chiara is an accredited Buyers Agent and Licensee of Community West Real Estate, and founder of Green Gurus™, a sustainability education group consisting of property experts who collaborate to share their knowledge and experience on sustainable development.

Cecille is the Sustainability Advisor for the Proptech Association of Australia and director of Weldonco Advisory and Creative Services (Weldonco Pty Ltd). She is considered a subject matter expert in the convergence between sustainability, energy efficiency, property and property value and has participated in numerous research projects over the last 10 years. She has been a tireless advocate for change in the real estate sector and for real estate agent skills to include knowledge of property sustainability features and how to market these effectively - as a baseline skill for property professionals. She is responsible for the creation and development of the Banksia award-winning Liveability Features Framework and Liveability Appraisal Proptech tool for real estate agents.  At heart Liveability was a consumer engagement solution which identified a cluster of 17 Liveability Property Features that deliver the potential for running costs and comfort at the point of sale or rent, which provided a clear and robust list of property features for buyers, renovators and investors and a clear “upgrade” pathway. More recently she developed ground-breaking marketing guidelines for the selling of Net Zero Energy homes in the volume housing industry which were applied by Frasers Homes as part of their ZEH Home Arena Grant – all 51 town homes were sold using these guidelines which were utilised by their advertising agency. Cecille has developed and facilitated training courses for residential real estate agents and volume housing sales agents on behalf of the REINSW and NSWDPIE on upselling energy efficiency and introduction to sustainable property features and home energy ratings.

Professor Sara Wilkinson is a chartered building surveyor and Australia’s first female Professor of Property. Her transdisciplinary research program sits at the intersection of sustainability, urban development and transformation, with a focus on green cities and preparing our urban environments for the challenges of climate change. She has a growing interest in the use of new technologies to deliver sustainable building outcomes. Sara works with academic and industry partners in engineering, science, health and business to deliver building adaptation, sustainability and resilience, and green infrastructure projects. Her research has been funded by the ARC OEH NSW, RICS, ARENA, HIA, Kamprad Family Foundation, City of Melbourne and City of Sydney. Recent work includes a project with Frasers Property to ascertain if there is a premium paid for sustainable residential property in Sydney and another with Swedish developer, Skanksa, funded by the Kamprad Family Foundation that uses virtual reality to assess customers’ willingness to pay for green infrastructure in a residential housing development. Her ARC Linkage project with UTS FEIT and Science evaluates performance of hempcrete wall panels and green walls. She is an Property Research Trustee and a trustee for the Australian Property Institute’s research and education committees, a member of the RICS Oceania Education Standards Board, and a member and secretary of the PRRES Board.