1 Million Women

Peri Hunter - Marketing Director - BP Australia and New Zealand

Peri oversees the development, implementation, and communication of BP Australia's sustainability programs. She has over 20 years marketing and operational experience, working exclusively in multi-national companies, across Australia and internationally. In 2007, BP Australia launched a new sustainability marketing campaign called "Talk Stopped Long Ago", which features BP Australia's long history of sustainability credentials. In 2008, BP's "Global Choice" carbon offset offer crossed the 2 million tonne mark.

Wendy McCarthy AO - Company Director & Business Public Sector Mentor

Wendy McCarthy is the Vice-Chair of Plan International; Director and Immediate Past Chair of Plan Australia; Chair of McGrath Estate Agents; Chair of Circus Oz; Chair of headspace; and Pacific Friends of the Global Fund.

Wendy specialises in providing mentors to major corporations and the public sector and assisting these organisations with issues around diversity, leadership and work life balance.

In 1989 Wendy was appointed an officer of the Order of Australia for outstanding contributions to community affairs, women's affairs and the Bicentennial celebrations. In 2003 she was awarded a Centenary of Federation medal for business leadership and in 2005 she was nominated by the Sydney Morning Herald as one of Australia's Top 100 Public Intellectuals.

Wendy is the author of five books including her memoirs, Don't Fence Me In, published in 2000.

Jennifer Westacott - KPMG's National Lead Partner for Climate Change, Water and Sustainability and the Lead Partner for the NSW Government practice.

Jennifer joined KPMG in 2005 after over 20 years in the public service in Victoria and New South Wales. For 10 years Jennifer occupied senior executive and Chief Executive positions. Some of the positions she has occupied include the Director of Housing in Victoria, the Secretary of Education in Victoria and more recently the Director General of Infrastructure Planning and Natural Resources in New South Wales where she presided over significant reforms in water, native vegetation and planning.

Julie Honore - Managing Director, SafeSearch/EnviroSearchGlobal

Julie's HR and Safety consulting career spanned 18 years in the UK and Asia Pacific before she established SafeSearch, and later EnviroSearchGlobal, specialist Safety and Environment/Sustainability Search and Recruitment firms who conduct assignments, predominantly for the ASX 200.

While leading PricewaterhouseCooper's People and Change Risk Management and Strategic HR Consulting Practices Julie worked across a range of industries including finance, manufacturing, transport, retail, government, health, telecommunications, professional services and energy and mining.

Julie holds are Masters in Leadership & Management (Distinction), is a Fellow of Australian Human Resources Institute (FAHRI), on AHR's OHS Special Interest Committee and is an Advisory Board member of Climate Coolers. Past posts include Executive Member of the Safety Institute of Australia Victorian Division, Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce and National Advisory Group member for CareersMultiList.

Sam Mostyn - AFL Commissioner & leading climate and sustainability adviser

Assoc. Professor Rosemary Lyster - Director, Australian Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Law

Rosemary Lyster is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL). In the area of Environmental Law, Rosemary specialises in Climate Law, Water Law and GMOs and Environmental Law. She has published two books with Cambridge University Press in the area of Energy and Climate Law. They are Rosemary Lyster and Adrian Bradbrook Energy Law and the Environment (Cambridge University Press: 2006) and Adrian J. Bradbrook, Rosemary Lyster, Richard L. Ottinger and Wang Xi (eds) The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development (Cambridge University Press: 2005). Rosemary is also the principal author of Rosemary Lyster, Zada Lipman, Nicola Franklin, Graeme Wiffen, Linda Pearson, Environmental and Planning Law in New South Wales (2nd edition) (Federation Press: 2009).

Rosemary is the Energy and Water Special Editor of the Environmental Planning and Law Journal which is the leading environmental law journal in Australia. She is a member of the IUCN – The World Conservation Union Commission on Environmental Law, comprising environmental lawyers from around the world. She is a member of the Commission's Special Working Groups on Water and Wetlands, Energy and Climate Change, and Forests and was Chair of the Water and Wetlands Group from 2005-2009.

Rosemary has an extensive list of publications including books, chapters in books and articles in leading international and domestic law journals. She is a regular presenter at international and domestic conferences.