Executive Director

David Hodgkinson

David is a member of The Hodgkinson Group, Aviation and Climate Change Advisors (www.hodgkinsongroup.com) and Special Counsel with Clayton Utz, a national Australian law firm. He was formerly Director of Legal Services at the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the organisation of the world's international scheduled airlines, based in Montreal and Geneva.

He is the coauthor of Global Climate Change: Australian Law and Policy (LexisNexis/Butterworths, July 2008) and Strategies for Airlines on Aircraft Emissions and Climate Change: Sustainable, Long-Term Solutions (2007), as well as other papers and articles on climate change.

David holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with First Class Honours, a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Master of Philosophy degree (with a thesis on treaty interpretation), and was a Postgraduate Fellow at Columbia University, New York; his PhD thesis is on the regulation of aviation in federal systems. He is the recipient of an Evans Grawemeyer Fellowship awarded by the Australian Government for research and activities aimed at improving the global order.

Directors

Simon Dawkins

Simon is the Managing Director of The Oil Mallee Company of Australia Ltd (www.oilmallee.com.au) which has been in the forefront of developing carbon sequestration methodologies and bioenergy programs based on integrated agroforestry programs in the low rainfall areas of WA. These programs have strong environmental and NRM benefits.

Simon is an Economist with an extensive career in public sector management and strategic policy in the Commonwealth, ACT and WA Governments. This experience has included heading up two major performing arts centres. His recent policy experience includes as Director of both the Social and Economic Policy Units in the WA Department of the Premier and Cabinet and extensive work in that Department on climate change and sustainability issues, including work with intergovernmental committees and expert panels.

As the WA representative on a national expert committee, Simon was involved in developing the four discussion papers on emissions trading, an authoritative source of information on the workings of the Kyoto mechanisms. He also played an active role in the development of the legislative framework for the development of carbon sinks in WA and later attended UNFCCC Conference (COP 8) as part of the Australian delegation.

Simon has a degree in Economics from UWA, a Graduate Diploma in Education from CCAE (now Canberra University) and a Master of Philosophy from City University in London and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Philip Jennings

Philip is Professor of Physics and Energy Studies at Murdoch University and has been involved in renewable energy research and education for more than 25 years. He has led Murdoch University's efforts in developing a range of educational programs in renewable energy that address the needs of schools, universities, TAFE and the general community. In addition to renewable energy education he has research interests in photovoltaics, especially amorphous silicon solar cells, and attempts to improve their efficiency and stability.

Bret Mattes, Chair of EcoCarbon
 

Clinton Watkins