Australian Government
Australian Accounting Standards Board
Dr Eric Lee
AASB Research Director
Eric has a wealth of expertise spanning 20 years in academic, Big Four accounting firms and standard-setting roles. He has a proven track record of producing independent analysis and research reports, tackling intricate accounting technical and reporting matters, forming strategies, leading extensive outreach activities, and engaging key stakeholders through various domestic and international presentations.
Currently serving as the AASB Research Director, he is the head of research and leads the AASB Research Centre with the primary responsibility to develop, implement and oversee the AASB’s research strategies that are coherent with the evidence-based approach to setting standards. He is tasked with initiating and managing research/thought-leadership projects that will inform AASB and international standard-setters about current and future accounting and reporting issues. He also plays a significant role in developing and building relationships with Australian and international researchers, policymakers, and standard setters.
Debra Wan
AASB Senior Technical Fellow
Debra is a Senior Technical Fellow currently on secondment to the AASB. She has seventeen years of experience at professional services firm Deloitte, both in the UK and Australia, having spent several years in audit, advisory, and is currently a Director in its Accounting & Corporate Reporting Team. Debra specialises in the provision of technical accounting advice, servicing clients big and small, private and listed, across all industries including mining and engineering, media and technology, and financial services. She has a passion for finding solutions to complex technical transactions and helping clients implement new accounting standards, including sustainability reporting.
Cameron Mathie
a/g General Manager, Carbon Markets
Clean Energy Regulator
Cameron Mathie is the Acting General Manager of Carbon Markets at the Clean Energy Regulator.
Cameron leads implementation of Australia’s Guarantee of Origin Scheme and oversees the publication of market data and insights through the Quarterly Carbon Markets Report.
Cameron is an expert in Australia’s carbon markets, providing trusted data and advice to the market and policy makers on renewables energy certificates and Australian carbon credit units. Cameron has helped administer a broad range of national level renewable and emissions regulations.
The Guarantee of Origin scheme will measure and display key attributes of how and where a unit of a low emissions product like hydrogen on steel is produced, including its carbon intensity, enabling Australian businesses to sell verified low emissions products to
the world.
Fiona Manning
Manager, ESG Engagement (Climate), Australian Council of Superannuation Investors
Having joined the investment industry in 1999, Fiona has a diverse background with experience across multi-asset and multi-manager investment strategies, climate change and ESG research, equity analysis, investment communications and liability-driven investment. Prior to joining ACSI, Fiona had most recently been a portfolio manager of diversified, ethical and impact funds at AMP Capital and Apostle Funds Management. She was an equity analyst with clean energy fund manager Arkx Investment Management and an investment analyst at The Climate Institute. This was preceded by five years in the UK with Insight Investment where she focussed on liability-driven investment and, in Australia, working within the investment team at the Government Employee’s Superannuation Board (GESB) of Western Australia and as an investment reporting analyst with MLC Implemented Consulting. Fiona holds a Bachelor of Mathematics and Finance from the University of Technology, Sydney, and is also a CFA Charterholder.
Martin Lawrence
Director, Ownership Matters
Martin co-founded Ownership Matters in 2011. Prior to co-founding OM, he was at ISS/Risk Metrics from 2006 to 2011, including as head of research for Australia & NZ, and before joining ISS was manager, corporate governance at the BT Governance Advisory Service (now Regnan). He began his career as a finance journalist.
Tara Oakley
Regional Director, Oceania, South Pole
As Regional Director for South Pole Australia and leading commercial activities in the region, Tara utilises her 12+ years experience in sales, derivatives trading and carbon to support her team and clients across decarbonisation solutions and complex, long-term carbon procurement, as well as channelling finance to develop new climate projects in Australia. Tara has a long standing passion for climate action and holds a MSc in Carbon Management from the University of Edinburgh and BSc in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Exeter.