Advisory Board

Our advisors are an esteemed, experienced, and dynamic brains trust spanning a multitude of industries and disciplines. They serve as the UTRC’s external advisors, interface, and as intermediaries between the Centre, policymakers, NGOs, and the private sector. Offering industry expertise.

Advisory Board
	Monica Richter — Chair of External Advisory Board Monica Richter is a Western Sydney University Alumnus and the Senior Manager at Low Carbon Futures, WWF Australia. She is an economist and social ecologist, strategic collaborator, and problem solver. Monica has extensive experience working across business, government and the NGO sector pursuing ambitious zero carbon and circular economy solutions.
	Davina Rooney Davina Rooney is CEO of the Green Building Council of Australia, a Board member of Evolve Housing and Faculty at Cambridge University’s Sustainability Practitioners Program. Davina has an extensive track record in sustainable property and real estate, environmental and not-for-profit projects, and overseas community development.  Davina has received the NAWIC NSW 2016 Sustainability Award, the PCA 2014 Future Leaders Award, the Sydney University Engineering Young Alumni Award and was acknowledged on the Carbon Disclosure Project Leaders in 2016 and 2018.
	Richa Sud Richa Sud is Senior Sustainability Consultant at Taylor Thomson Whitting and an alumnus of Cambridge University’s Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment, UCL and USYD. With postgraduate qualifications and ample professional experience, Richa’s areas of expertise include structural engineering, statistical modelling and data analytics, and theoretical perspectives on economics, policy and governance.
	Christopher Lee Christopher Lee is CEO of Climate-KIC Australia, and an Alumnus of UNSW and Macquarie University. Christopher as extensive background across many diverse sectors, including leading the team at NSW Office of Environment and Heritage’s Climate Change Impacts and Adaption in developing policy. Christopher leads Climate-KIC Australia’s innovation through harnessing systems thinking in response to climate change, incorporating a vast network of collaborators and delivery partners to realise transformative action.
	Greg Woodhams Greg Woodhams is a seasoned industry professional with an extensive background in urban planning across both council and private sector, most recently as Executive Director of City Planning for the Greater Sydney Commission. Greg has a demonstrated track record of working collaboratively across multiple sectors to realise growth on a metropolitan scale.
	Lynne Gallagher Lynne Gallagher was appointed by the Governor-General to the Advisory Committees of the Australian Energy Regulator in June 2023, she is a member of the Pacific Energy Institute, Energy Safe Victoria’s Future Trends, and the Monash Energy Institute. Her extensive background across advisory, executive and economist roles demonstrates an exemplary commitment to producing quantifiable results.