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Join us for a provocative invitation to investors who want to act on existing nature-related data risk, and launch of the report Cracking the code: How to use nature data. The report leverages three available nature investment tools to measure and visualise direct and value chain impacts on nature. The panel will discuss how investors can best use data for impact. Why? Because nature tipping points are coming and they are irreversible.
Lead Councillor at Biodiversity Council
Professor Brendan Wintle is a biodiversity conservation scientist at the University of Melbourne, Director of the Melbourne Biodiversity Institute and founder of Australia’s Biodiversity Council. He specialises in biodiversity science, spatial modelling, decision support, and assessing nature risk in economic development and investment. He is widely recognised for his work on how environmental decisions are made under uncertainty in the context of biodiversity decline and climate change. He was director of Australia’s National Threatened Species Recovery Research Hub (2016-2022), coordinating lead author for Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, elected Fellow of the Victorian Royal Society, and serves as non-executive director at Zoos Victoria.
Ethical Stewardship Lead at Australian Ethical Investment
AmandaRichman is Ethical Stewardship Lead at Australian Ethical Investment. In herrole she is responsible for nature-related stewardship and designing theframeworks for embedding nature issues into company assessments.
Amanda has been at Australian Ethical since 2018, following a career incommercial law focused on competition and consumer law.
CEO and Founder, of GIST Impact
Pavan is the founder and CEO of GIST Impact, a global leader in sustainability data and analytics which harnesses the power of impact economics, technology and AI to uncover a business's full value contribution to the world. A scientist by education, a banker by profession, and an environmental economist by passion, Pavan previously led the UN’s Green Economy Initiative and The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study. His groundbreaking work has been recognised through several awards including the Blue Planet Prize (2016), the Tyler Prize (2020), and the EAERE European Practitioner Achievement Award in Applying Environmental Economics (2024).
Director at Australian Ethical Foundation
Mara Bún is a company director and advisor who brings a global perspective and cross-sector leadership to the climate and nature imperatives. Drawing on a career across finance, research, non-profit and consulting sectors, she is a Non-Executive Director of GreenCollar; Chair of Australian Impact Investments; and Advisor/Director of the Australian Ethical Foundation. Mara is a faculty member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s Business Sustainability Program and Chairs the board of chamber music for nature ensemble the Bowerbird Collective. Born and raised in Brazil, Mara serves on the board of the DFAT advisory Council on Australia Latin America Relations COALAR and is a member of the Australia Brazil Chamber of Commerce.
