Lisa Sutherland Email & Phone Number

As a specialist and part of the Legal Services team, I help find practical solutions to environmental legal issues at DOC. Cases have included work on: endangered species, coastal sand mining, aquifer takes and a wind farm amongst other things. Alongside cases, we are expected to keep up with legal developments such as freshwater and RMA reforms and grow a.

Nationally, DOC provided feedback on more than $1 billion worth of Provincial Growth Fund applications that could impact on conservation outcomes. As part of the national team, I facilitated DOC’s PGF response in the Northland region. My role also involved working with Treaty Partners and stakeholders to develop and support projects towards being.

New Zealand

Specialist in environmental compliance risk with a legal background and 17+ years experience in streamlining sustainability goals and legal obligations into a practical framework people can work with day-to-day. Particularly experienced in contexts of high business risk such as large scale infrastructure construction or catalysing enduring change when.

New Zealand

• Sutherlands is a catalyst for good environmental performance specialising in situations where the business risk is high. Sutherlands provides balanced, business-focused support using a systemic approach. Examples.
• Environmental Performance Assessment and Improvement – Auckland City Transport Infrastructure Delivery Group developed system for $220m per annum work stream. Tasks to achieve this varied widely, beginning with a.
• Environmental Consultant HEB Construction Ltd - company culture and performance transformation - huge growth in the company precipitated a legal/compliance crisis. Led culture transformation and development of aligned.
• Facilitator, Leading Environmental Practice in Roading Infrastructure Delivery – workshop of stakeholders to determine practical meaning of ‘best practice’.
• Fulton Hogan Environmental Skills Training and Manual - sustainable and practical tools for roll out across approximately 1000 management staff nationwide.
• Facilitator, Roading NZ Environmental Risk Workshop – facilitated day where national membership identified environmental risks associated with roading work and developed strategies for these risks.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Team Manager, Evaluation of Environmental Outcomes on behalf of Infrastructure Auckland – evaluation of 6 Major Applications for Transport Funding, application of criteria and making recommendations.
• Team Manager, Funding Applications to Infrastructure Auckland for Auckland City Council Stormwater Improvement Projects (succeeded in gaining in full the requested $19m funding towards a $200m work program).
• Assessment of Environmental Management System against Legal/Consenting Requirements and Corporate Sustainability Initiative – United Networks.
• Watercare Services Waikato Water Treatment Plant, Annual Report and Monitoring Plans.
• Environmental Choice assessment (Mulch Mat).
• Assistance on Genesis Power environmental management system review.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Environmental Manager for Project Manukau Design Build - 2.5 year secondment for the Joint Venture contractor (the $450 million). At the time this was the biggest NZ construction project undertaken in a generation. It.
• Team Manager, Environmental Audit, Ports of Auckland.
• Team Manager, Ports of Auckland Stormwater Consent Applications.
• Team Manager, RMA Review and Site Assessment pre-sale, confidential nation-wide client.

Auckland

Part of a group of staff, students and legal professionals that founded an Environmental Law Center operating in association with Auckland Law School. Center a clearing house for information and knowlege at an early stage of the RMA implementation. Upon establishment, elected founding Convener. Work by all involved was on voluntary basis.

Llb, Llm (Hons), Environmental Law, International Environmental Law

Activities and Societies: Founding Convener, Environmental Law Centre, Auckland University Law School

Strategy, Leadership, Finance & Marketing,

Course held for a small group of small business owners selected by NZTE.

Further Post-Graduate Paper, International Environmental Law (Update)

University Entrance (Accredited)

Te Reo, 75 Hour Course In Maori Language., Grade 1