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Extensive career within professional services, working across audit, management consulting, practice growth and leadership roles across Australia and New Zealand. Ben is a Partner with Deloitte's Climate & Engineering consulting business, Ben co-leads the AgriFood-ture team combining Circular Economy and Digital Consulting capabilities in the AgriFood industry with Piers Hogarth-Scott. The AgriFood Transformation & Circularity team are committed to supporting the transition to an AgriFood-ture that enables industry participants to optimise their circular resource management to create new value and maximise the transition to a low carbon future for their stakeholders up and down the supply chain.The team strives to operate at the forefront of circular and digital transformation in the agriculture and food sectors working as the trusted adviser to governments, research organisations and corporates. Our work is focussed around Circular Economy, Decarbonisation, Natural Capital and Sustainability.We combine expertise, passion and systems leadership to help clients redesign their future to address complex business challenges and seize the opportunities the AgriFood-ture presents. We specialise in working through supply chains and within regions to support interconnected, low-carbon systems underpinning a clean economy that grows at an increasingly faster rate than its carbon-intensive alternative.Our work involves assisting organisations to baseline their enterprise to determine how circular their resource management practices are and could be; mapping a clear transformation path that is value and impact oriented. To combat the climate crisis and unlock significant economic growth requires governments, businesses, and communities to align on pathways towards a net-zero future. Our difference is how we bring digital and technology solutions to the challenge and help clients embrace Circularity, Data, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and more.We specialise in drawing insights from trusted real-time data to help the agrifood sector to more nimbly respond to what the market wants, be more efficient in production and show their customers how safe and sustainable their food is, including embodied carbon and the impact on nature. We focus our services across three key domains: 1. Digital AgriFood2. Circular Economy3. Systems Leadership and EcosystemsWe provide bespoke design and implementation of circularity, carbon and biodiversity footprint measurement and assessment tools and natural capital services.

Listed skills include Accounting, Financial Accounting, Ifrs, Business Development, and 26 others.

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  Partner / Co-Lead Agrifood Transformation & Circularity

  Deloitte

  Australia