Andrew Eagles
Chief Executive Officer, NZ Green Building Council
Andrew is a qualified economist with more than fourteen years’ experience in the built environment. Working for consultancies, associations, government and built environment charities, he has a wealth of knowledge in housing, market mechanism, advocacy and the construction supply chain. Andrew joined the New Zealand Green Building Council in September 2016 as Chief Executive. The NZGBC is the country’s leading not-for-profit for the sustainable built environment. As well as exemplary research, the NZGBC oversees Homestar and Green Star the award-winning certifications for New Zealand homes and buildings, and NABERSNZ, the tool for confirming performance of offices in use.
Dr. Asaad Shamseldin
Associate Professor Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Associate Professor Asaad Shamseldin has considerable research, consultancy and technology transfer experience in the field of hydrology and water recourses. Dr Shamseldin acted as a reviewer for engineer engineering design guidelines both nationally and internationally. He also served as editor for international journals. His research focuses on innovative predictive modelling combined with an experimental approach to advance scientific knowledge. His work cover the areas of climate and landuse changes, urban water management, catchment hydrology, global water cycle, natural hazard engineering and risk & uncertainty analysis. Associate Professor has a distinguished record of publications in peer refereed high-citation international journals, books and conference proceedings.
Nick Sautner
Chief Executive Officer, Eden Park
*Winner of Executive of the Year and Supreme Venue Person of the Year - EVANZ 2019, Executive of the Year – TheStadiumBusiness Summit 2019 Nick crossed the Tasman and joined the Eden Park team in June 2016. His 20 years’ experience has included roles at Colonial Stadium, Telstra Dome, Etihad Stadium, Domain Stadium and West Australian Football Commission. Throughout his career, Nick has remained committed to enhancing business acumen as well as acquiring further technical skills and knowledge. He has studied in China, Germany and the USA and holds Bachelor degrees in Business and Arts, as well as a Master of Business Administration .Outside of work, Nick played 260 VFL matches and won 5 premierships with Sandringham and 2 VAFA premierships with Wesley Collegians. Amongst a number of individual honours, he kicked 883 goals in the VFL competition and holds the competition record for leading goal kicker. In 2019 Nick was proud to receive the Executive of the Year award at The Stadium Business Summit, and Venue Executive of the Year and Supreme Venue Person of the Year at the EVANZ Awards. He proudly became a Certified Venue Executive in 2020 with IAVM Nigel Toms
General Manager Finance, Watercare
Nigel is the Head of Risk and Resilience for Watercare Services Limited, the sole provider of water and wastewater services to 1.5 million Aucklanders. The requirements of the role include Enterprise and Project Risk Management, Resilience Development, Business Continuity Planning and Emergency Preparedness, Incident Controller and overseeing the organisations Insurance Program. He served as member and subsequently Deputy Chair of the RiskNZ Management Board for five years until 2016, and then as Chair of RiskNZ from 2017 to 2019. During this period he led the Continuing Professional Development and Relationship workstreams covering lunchtime presentations, future training options and agreements for sharing of professional knowledge with other organisations. He also led the development of RiskNZ Post Nominals to provide professional recognition to Risk Managers. Nigel’s previous experience includes strategic financial and risk roles across a range of industries including Utilities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Logistics and Ordnance and Munitions. Nigel is a Certified Member of the UK Institute of Risk Management; Chartered Global Management Accountant and he holds a MSc in Corporate Governance and awarded RiskNZ Risk Professional of the Year Award 2021
Reid Butler
Smart Approved Watermark, Sydney
Reid has over 25 years' experience in sustainable water and environmental management. He has worked internationally across the private and public sectors with a strong focus on water efficiency and drought resilience. He was the chair of the Australian Water Association Water Efficiency Committee for five years and is now a key member of the Smart Approved Watermark Smart Water Advice team. The team has delivered numerous water efficiency projects including training, site audits, regional strategies and sector-based guidelines. Reid has personally conducted over 5,000 water audits and brings a holistic and cost-effective approach to each site; considering efficiency gains, alternate water supply opportunities, improved data collection and better site management. Saskia Verraes
Programme Lead, The MindLab
Saskia is a devoted fighter for a better world. One that is socially just, economically inclusive and environmentally restorative. She has years of experience working on collaborative social efforts with vision and engagement and a real focus on action. Saskia currently leads the postgraduate course Leading Change For Good at The Mind Lab, where she combines 25+ years experience in various international senior and executive roles including as Chief Responsible Management Officer for Tourism Holdings Limited in Auckland. Saskia is also CE and co-founder of global non-profit Match4Action and co-lead of the Joint Partnership CrowdDoing. She loves to encourage passion to action towards sustainable business solutions. Her skills range from change to innovation, from enterprise risk to ethics, technology, people and process, including capability building, systems thinking, service learning, social entrepreneurship and closing the social innovation gap. Saskia is a great advocate for Future-Fit thinking and was the driver behind the world’s first Future-Fit Integrated Report for Tourism Holding Limited in August 2019. Bronwyn McGill
I have worked as the Business Manager for Epsom Girls Grammar School for 3 years and came from a background in banking.
During my time with Epsom Girls, I have taken it upon myself to investigate the school’s energy and water use with the aim of reducing our footprint on the planet in our own small way. With this goal in mind, I led the Energy Management team here at Epsom Girls to become the first organisation in New Zealand to achieve ISO 50001 Energy Management, an achievement we are extremely proud of.
Here in Auckland over the last 2 years, we have experienced huge droughts, and it has hit home to everyone that we need to manage our precious water resources better. We are constantly monitoring our use and looking for ways to reduce and manage our consumption.
Councillor Sophie Handford
Paekākāriki - Raumati Ward Councillor, Kāpiti Coast District Council
Sophie Handford is a 20-year-old Councillor and activist from Kāpiti, New Zealand. Since the age of 12, Sophie has held the environment closely and always felt a strong connection to and need to protect this one planet we share. Sophie was service captain, student rep and Head Girl at various points throughout her secondary schooling at Kāpiti College. After graduating, she founded School Strike 4 Climate in Aotearoa NZ and went on to coordinate the movement which mobilised 170,000 people across the country in September. She is now the Paekakariki - Raumati Ward Councillor on the Kāpiti Coast District Council. 