Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises' Board of Directors

Mr Perkins is a national leader in public sector reform and the emerging sustainable development movement. He provides advice to governments on science policy-operations integration focused on environment and natural resource management, industry development and sustainability strategies.

He has maintained various academic and advisory roles as well as numerous directorships relating to commercialisation of innovations in the environmental sector. He has been involved in the successful implementation of several public-private partnerships and alliances.

Present and recent contributions include:

International

• Advisory board member, The Rosenberg International Water Policy Forum, University of California, Berkeley campus, USA (from 2006)
• Visiting professor, Hua Zhang Science & Technology University, Wuhan, China (from 2008)

National

• Chairman, Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Environmental Remediation (CRC CARE) (from 2004)
• Chair, Land & Water Australia Audit Committee (2008: member from 2004)
• Foundation chair, the Barton Group, implementing the Environment Industry Development Agenda (2001-2009)
• Chair, Waste Industry response to Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (2008)
• Chair, National Environmental Education Council (2003-2007)
• Project Director, National Water Industry Roadmap Study (2004-2006)
• Member, Solar Cities Assessment Expert Panel (2005-2007)
• Facilitator, National Investment Plan for Terrestrial Ecosystems Research (2007)
• Member, Commonwealth Business Sustainability Roundtable (2003-2007)
• Chairman: 1) EMIAA, 2) EBA, 3) Austemex, 4) Australian Science Festival

Canberra / ACT

• DCEO & later CEO of ACTEW Corporation Ltd (1991 to 2003)
• Adjunct professor, Australian National University (2003-2009)
• Member, ACT Sustainability Expert Reference Group (SERG) (2003-2006)
• Independent member, ANU Audit & Risk Management Committee (from 2004)
• Deputy Chairman, ACT Cemeteries Authority (2003-2006)
• Deputy chairman, Perpetual Water Ltd (2006-2008)
• Member, ACT Natural Resource Management Committee (2004-2006)
• Member, ACT Water Security Advisory Panel (2007)

Recognition

• Member of the Order of Australia (AM) (2005) for contributions to public sector reform, environment and export development

Professional

• Associateship in Local Government Administration (ALGA) (Charles Sturt)
• Bachelor of Business (BBus) (Charles Sturt)
• Advanced Management Program (AMP) (Harvard)
• Fellow, Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (FCPA)
• Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD)
• Companion, Engineers Australia (CompIEAust)

Dr Gerry Bates has been developing and teaching courses in Environmental Law since 1978. He was one of the first academics in an Australian university to introduce environmental law to the curriculum, and has been responsible for the development of many specialist undergraduate, postgraduate and professional development courses since then. As well as universities, his clients have included Environment Australia, the Australian Antarctic Division, the Productivity Commission, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and NSW Local Government.

Although self-employed, Professor Bates has been awarded facilities at the Australian Centre or Climate and Environmental Law at the University of Sydney, where he teaches specialist courses in Environmental Law and Policy, Pollution Law, Natural Resources Law and European Environmental Law. He also teaches courses at the Australian National University in Canberra and the University of New South Wales. Both the University of Sydney and the ANU have awarded him the status of Adjunct Professor. Dr Bates has also taught courses in environmental law in the UK, China, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands.

Professor Bates is well known in Australia for his standard university text ‘Environmental Law in Australia’. Other publications include ‘Corporate Liability for Pollution’ (with Zada Lipman) and ‘Pollution Law in Australia’ (with Zada Lipman). He is also the founder and Editor-in- Chief of the ‘Environmental and Planning Law Journal’, a business publication that has been published continuously since its inception in 1983. Dr Bates has also written chapters for the prestigious ‘Halsbury’s Laws of Australia’ and Thomsons 'Laws of Australia'; and has dozens of journal articles to his credit.

Professor Bates undertakes consultancies for Federal, State and Local Governments, and for the corporate sector. Clients have included the NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation, Sydney Water Authority, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Productivity Commission, ACT Heritage Council, Queensland aboriginal groups, and Sydney Ferries.

Between 1986 and 1996 Dr Bates was a Green Independent Member of Parliament in Tasmania, leader of Greens business in the House of Assembly and a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Subordinate Legislation. He resigned in 1996 to return to the law.

Since 1998, Professor Bates has served on the Board of the Environment Protection Authority of NSW, being reappointed in 2001, 2003 and again in 2005. He is currently chairman of the Board sub-committee on regulation, a member of the Board sub-committee on climate change and a member of the State of the Environment Advisory Council (SEAC).

In 1996 the National Environmental Law Association conferred an award on Dr Bates for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Law’.

Dr Bates lives in Pittwater with his wife and three children.

Ms Julie Garland McLellan is an internationally acclaimed expert on government sector governance. She is the author of 'All Above Board: Great Governance for the Government Sector' and a frequent contributor to governance conferences and publications.

Julie has a degree in Civil Engineering, an executive MBA, a diploma and an advanced diploma in company directorship.

Julie is a practising company director and has experience on a range of public sector and commercial boards including:

• Melbourne Water Corporation
• City West Water
• VENCorp
• Hats Holdings
• Gamesa Energy Australia
• The Australian Institute of Company Directors’ NSW Council

John had an international career in mining before becoming Managing Director of the Waste Management Authority of NSW in 1989, and then Waste Service NSW until 1999. He has served on a number of boards in the mining and waste industries, and was a Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Waste Management and Pollution Control. John is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and was the proponent and a founding member of the Waste Management Association of Australia. He was awarded Life Membership in 2004 in recognition of outstanding service and leadership.

At Waste Service NSW, major achievements included the establishment of major new materials recovery and composting businesses, going beyond consultation to participation with host communities in the area of siting waste management infrastructure, the development of integrated Quality, Environmental and Safety systems certified to international standards and new policies such as the Council Recycling Rebate Scheme.

Since 1999, John has been Director of John B Cook & Associates Pty Ltd, Business and Environment Consultants. Customers have included the largest waste companies, Sydney Water Corporation, Lend Lease, Australian Council of Recyclers, Concrete Recyclers, North East Waste Forum and various Councils.

John is also Chairperson and Project Manager, Alternative Waste Technology Derived Organic Rich Fraction (AWT DORF) Joint Working Group for the Waste Management Association of Australia. AWT DORF was established by Compost NSW and the NSW AWT Working Group as a consultation forum with the NSW DECC to review and make recommendations on specifications for utilising organic material, derived from mixed municipal waste.