James Selth Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Australia

James is Sustainability Adviser at Melbourne Airport within the Environment Team.Working across the organisation, particularly at a senior level, James' role involves:O Development and implementation of the Airport's corporate sustainability position. The position is characterised by:* Commercial and risk considerations, and support for the Airport's social license to operate.* Alignment with the Melbourne Airport Master Plan, Environment Strategy chapter, and the wishes of senior management, the Board and shareholders.O Development and implementation of tailored sustainability approaches for large Airport infrastructure projects such as the Runway Development Program, Terminal 2 Redevelopment, Elevated Roadway and multiple taxiway/apron works. These approaches have achieved:* Quantifiable energy, waste, and water use reductions.* Improved internal processes for procurement, stakeholder engagement and logistics planning.O Continued development and management of additional sustainability-related initiatives such as:* Climate change risk & vulnerability assessments.* The roll-out of the Melbourne Airport Sustainable Buildings & Infrastructure Guide.* Airport carbon accreditation.

Melbourne, Australia

Within the context of JGS Sustainability, James is engaged by asset & infrastructure managers, finance industry specialists and government clients on sustainability-related assignments.Such engagements involve working collaboratively with clients to achieve positive commercial, risk and reputation outcomes through improved business approaches.Recent and current engagements include:* Solar Map Viability Analysis - City of Melbourne* Climate Change Briefing Report - Melbourne Airport* Carbon Tax Briefings for Executive Management and Board - Melbourne Airport* Environment & Sustainability Strategy Assessment and Development - Local Government Client* Climate Change Risk and Vulnerability Assessment - Superannuation Industry Fund Client

Melbourne, Australia

James held a senior position with the Arup Sustainability team for 7 years offering arange of project and corporate sustainability consulting services in the environmental, carbon, climate change, energy fields.James' role responded directly to the needs of the evolving and expanding sustainability market. Of particular note is that James:* Founded the Arup Sustainability team in Melbourne: guiding team to a peak of 10 members.* Formed and managed over 50 multidisciplinary project teams to develop and implement project solutions across the sustainability ‘space’. * Was directly responsible for the growth of the team workload to an annual seven figure turnover. * Developed corporate sustainability solutions for Melbourne Airport, Sustainability Victoria, EPA and VicTrack. * Further developed global best practice sustainability solutions for organizations such as BHP Billiton, City of Melbourne and Auckland Transport.

Melbourne, Australia

Whilst with Cardno ACIL (formerly ACIL Australia) James held 2 major roles:* Management role on the A$150 million AusAID Papua New Guinea Law and Justice Sector Program with responsibility to define project strategy within the context of Australia and in-country regulatory requirements, manage key stakeholder relationships, and achieve internal project efficiencies.* Support the executive team in the purchase of ACIL Australia by Cardno through information provision to fulfil APRA and ASIC requirements, and strategic and financial analysis.

Melbourne, Australia

Role with Global Risk Management Service & Tax and Legal Services Practices managing superannuation projects in London, Liverpool and Bristol for clients including Aon, Prudential, and Royal Liver. The role involved:* Reviewing superannuation industry guidelines and regulations to align with actuarial and financial analysis requirements.* Management of multidisciplinary teams of up to 40 actuarial, analysis and data gathering staff.* Provision of weekly and monthly progress reports to internal PwC stakeholders and client directors encompassing issues such as analysis progress and quality control.

Graduate Certificate, Applied Finance And Investment

Masters, Arts (Asian Economics)

Graduate Diploma, Arts (Asian Economics)

Bachelor Of Economics, Environmental, Social And Asian Economics