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Turn climate constraints into competitive advantage through innovation and effective board governance.
What if climate constraints are your organisation's biggest innovation catalyst, not your biggest risk?
Drawing from her experience delivering $500M+ value creation through commercialising 1200+ innovations globally, and recent insights from AICD's Australia's Climate Governance Forum 2025, Dr Angeline Achariya will share how boards can govern for competitive advantage in the transition economy.
The evidence is compelling: organisations treating climate constraints as innovation catalysts achieve productivity growth rates significantly outpacing their sectors. The question is: how do boards create the conditions for this to happen?
In this practical session, you'll discover:
This is not another session about climate reporting requirements. This is about how boards can direct strategies that strengthen performance, build organisational resilience, and unlock sustainable growth.
Perfect for directors seeking to understand how commercial innovation experience translates to board-level value creation.
Dr Angeline Achariya serves on the boards of Industry Innovation and Science Australia (IISA) and Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA), both Australian Federal Government boards providing strategic oversight of national innovation investments, as well as Wine Australia. She applies her proven track record of delivering $500M+ value creation through commercialising 1200+ innovations globally.
Her executive career spans C-suite roles at Yum Brands and J.R. Simplot, and senior management positions at Mondelez, Mars, and Fonterra, where she led innovation strategies across domestic and Asia-Pacific markets. She co-founded Monash Food Innovation, the world's first industry-research collaboration hub, which continues to operate successfully over a decade later, enabling startups, SMEs, corporates, and retailers to accelerate commercialisation.
Angeline remains current through her advisory work at Beanstalk AgTech's Drought Venture Studio, where she guides climate resilience innovation, and as Chair of G100 Food Systems Innovation Asia-Pacific. She was recently a panellist at AICD's Australia's Climate Governance Forum 2025, exploring how boards can govern for competitive advantage in the transition economy.
Recognised on Victoria's Honour Roll of Women as a Trailblazer for innovation leadership and impact in 2025, Angeline is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering with a PhD in Food Systems from the University of Melbourne.
Based in Melbourne with deep trans-Tasman experience through her work with Fonterra and regional innovation initiatives, Angeline brings to the boardroom what she's lived in executive roles: the commercial frameworks and strategic discipline that enable organisations to turn constraints into competitive advantage.
The Institute of Directors New Zealand (IoD) launched Chapter Zero New Zealand in March 2022. It is the home for climate change governance at the IoD and aims to support directors to meet their fiduciary duties by supporting them with the skills, tools, processes and information they need to act and guide their companies through the challenges of climate change. For more information and to be kept up to date with the latest events, webinars and resources sign up here.
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Sharynn Johnson
Canterbury Branch Manager
+64 27 228 6069
canterbury.branch@iod.org.nz
The Canterbury Branch acknowledges the generous support of
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Members — $40.00
Non-members — $60.00
