National Environment Conference 2013
The Speakers
Mr Wade Hughes
Vice President, Public Strategy and Business Development, Far East
Alcoa Global Primary Products, GEBA
Wade Hughes is an Australian expatriate, based in the Middle East, where he currently serves as Director General, Business Development and Public Strategy, Far East, for Alcoa’s Global Primary Products Growth, group.
Wade has served Alcoa since 1984 and has held a variety of management positions principally in the field of employee communications, community relations, government affairs, and environment, health and safety. He left Australia to take up a position in Alcoa’s Corporate Communications group in 2000 and joined the Corporate EHS group in 2003. He joined the Global Primary Products Growth group in 2006 and is currently engaged in development of Alcoa project works in Greenland, West Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia.
His experience in the field of sustainable development includes leadership roles within the Australian Alcoa Landcare program and service as a foundation member of the Board of Directors of the U.S Landcare Council. Wade led the production of Alcoa’s first corporate Sustainability Report in 2002, and the first regional reports for Jamaica and Suriname in 2003.
Outside Alcoa Wade is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, a Member of the Explorers Club of New York, and has earned international recognition for his underwater photography of sperm whales off the Azores. Wade is a member of the Australian
Institute of Company Directors.
Wade holds an Associate Diploma in Commerce and Certificate of Applied Science from Deakin University. He was admitted as a Full Member to the Public Relations Institute of Australia in 1986.
His Excellency Mr. Rob Fenn
High Commissioner
British High Commission
Rob joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1983. He arrived in Brunei with his family in August 2009, after four years in Cyprus – where he was Deputy High Commissioner. His first posting was The Hague, followed by tours in Lagos (Nigeria), London (working on South Africa), New York (human rights), Rome (economy) and London (UK engagement with Turkey, Cyprus and Greece).
Rob was born in Rangoon in 1962 to a diplomatic family. Together with his family, they served the UK in Algeria, New York, China, Burma (again), Ireland and India (from where his father Sir Nicholas Fenn retired as High Commissioner).
Rob graduated from Cambridge University in Classical Philosophy. Rob is proud to represent the UK in Brunei, as steward of a relationship precious to both countries. Britain and Brunei respect their long traditions, which provide an anchor in a fast-changing world. As the High Commissioner, his hope is to build on that foundation, and help Brunei seize all its opportunities in the Twenty-first century.
Rob’s hobbies are (armchair) architecture and cosmology, whodunnits, music and Stoke City Football Club. He is married to Julia and has two boys, Alexander (9) and Kit (7).
Mr Tim Jarvis AM
Shackleton Epic Expedition Leader
Tim Jarvis is one of the world’s leading explorers and possesses an extraordinary adventure and leadership resume. He is also a best-selling author, film-maker and public speaker.
In January 2013, Jarvis was the Expedition Leader of Shackleton Epic where he and his crew emulated Shackleton’s voyage across 800 nautical miles of the treacherous Southern Ocean to South Georgia. Here, Jarvis and two crew members traversed its mountainous interior to reach the former whaling station at Stromness. To this day, no-one has successfully re-created Shackleton’s complete ‘double’ journey using traditional gear.
A senior associate of Sustainability for Australasia at Arup and Director of an outcome-focused environmental initiative Do-Tank, Jarvis is also a sustainability adviser on multilateral aid projects for the World Bank and AusAID. As an internationally certified environmental auditor Jarvis’ specialist disciplines include environmental auditing/site assessment, provision of sustainability advice, EIA preparation and review, natural resource management planning, and EMS design and implementation.
Jarvis holds the record for the fastest unsupported journey to the South Pole and the longest unsupported journey in Antarctica in 1999. He is the author of two books: “Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica”, an account his struggles to overcome extreme isolation, physical deprivation and his own self-doubt and “The Unforgiving Minute”, about his first three polar expeditions.
More about Tim: http://www.timjarvis.org
Mr Delwin Keasberry
Brunei Program Manager
Asia Inc Forum
Delwin Keasberry is the Brunei Program Manager of Asia Inc Forum. Asia Inc Forum is a leading business and public policy dialogue facilitator. In addition to its own programs in Brunei and ASEAN, Asia Inc Forum is a strategic partners to Asia Pacific’s most prestigious conferences, including the APEC CEO Summit.
In his current role, Delwin works with a dynamic team to lead and manage the company’s programs in Brunei, including the Corporate Partnership Program (which includes the National Environment Conference, Business Dialogues and the Brunei Business Forum), the THINKBIG Innovate Forum and the Local Business Development Program.
Delwin returned to Brunei in 2011 after spending 11 years living and working in Adelaide, South Australia. Before returning to Brunei, he worked as a consultant for a publicly-listed Australian company.
Delwin is also popularly known by his Twitter profile, “BruneiTweet”. In 2011, “BruneiTweet” successfully became the most followed Bruneian Twitter account with over 9,000 Twitter followers. Delwin continues to actively share and spread local news and information about events and promotions. Currently, Delwin has over 12,000 followers on Twitter.
Delwin has a Bachelor of Physiotherapy and a Masters of Business Administration, and has a keen interest in Marketing. Delwin is married to Dr Gillian Foo and they have both been blessed with three children, Noah, Elise and Ava. Apart from spending time with his close-knit family, in his free time Delwin actively trains (Cross Fit) with his friends.
Amanda McKenzie
Co-Founder, Australian Climate Change Education Network (ASCENT)
& Co-Founder, Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC)
Amanda is a passionate sustainability leader and social entrepreneur.
Amanda is the 2009 joint Young Environmentalist of the year after co-founding two environmental advocacy organisations, the Australian Climate Change Education Network (ASCENT) and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) at the age of just 23. Amanda served as National Director of the AYCC for three and a half years and in that time AYCC grew into one of the nation’s largest and most successful youth run organisations with 60,000 individual members and 25 organisational members.
Amanda is now the Communications Director for the Australian Climate Commission. In two short years the organisation is now the most recognised Australia climate organisation, producing 24 publications and connecting with millions through the media.
Amanda has led three Australian youth delegations to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and participated as a Youth Advisor to the Australian Government’s delegation in 2007. Amanda has been part of building the global youth climate movement helping to organise the Conference of Youth at the UN Climate Conference in 2007 and 2008. Her international work has also extended to her selection as a key spokesperson for Greenpeace International’s Voices of Change campaign in 2009, which reached 180 million people.
Amanda graduated from a Bachelor of Laws with honours from Monash University in 2007 after completing an Arts degree from Melbourne
University in 2004. Her honours thesis, which was granted a High Distinction, considered the integration of an Australian emissions trading scheme into the global carbon market.
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