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Turn climate and nature uncertainty into better value, risk and investment decisions using scenarios and quantification.
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Operating contexts are increasingly defined by volatility, disruption, and accelerating climate and nature-related impacts. For boards, the challenge is to better understand the disruption, clearly characterise, assess, and quantify the risks and opportunities, then use them to inform decision-making, capital allocation and future planning.
This in-person event explores how directors and executives can do this and use tools such as scenario thinking and financial quantification to make better decisions under uncertainty.
Drawing on director, executive and advisory perspectives, the session will build on our joint guidance, Financial quantification: from climate risk to value creation, which positions financial quantification as a practical governance tool and examine how organisations are moving beyond theory to understand financial impacts, test strategic options and strengthen resilience.
Our panellists will address the question: how can boards and executives turn climate and nature-related insight into practical choices about value, risk, investment and transition?
Delivered by Chapter Zero New Zealand in collaboration with KPMG, this event will support directors and senior leaders to strengthen boardroom conversations on climate, nature and financial risk.
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Judene is a Principal Governance Adviser with the Institute of Directors’ Governance Leadership Centre and Chapter Zero NZ lead providing best practice advice, guidance and advocacy for directors. She is also chair of the Nelson Historic Theatre Trust, deputy chair of the Rātā Foundation, and a trustee for the Network Tasman Trust.
Prior to joining the IoD she ran her own consultancy for over 20 years, specialising in governance, policy, strategy and communications working across a wide range of sectors, including housing, health, solid waste, aviation, energy, not-for-profit and infrastructure.
Judene was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to governance, local government and the community in the 2026 New Year Honours. She was a local government elected member for 12 years and a director on a range of private and public entity boards. She has a background in behavioural science and communications and is a Chartered Member of the IoD.
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Nagaja Sanatkumar has over 25 years’ global executive and leadership experience. Her international career focused on software information technology at scale, including senior roles at Amazon and Expedia. She has led digital information technology solutions and customer experience innovation for eCommerce retail, travel, and financial services products.
Nagaja studied Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay before moving to the US for a consulting role with Deloitte. Nagaja completed her MBA from the University of Washington in 2003 and a Masters in Sustainable Development Goals from Massey University in 2023. She is a Chartered Member of the NZ Institute of Directors.
Nagaja is currently serves as a director on the boards of Meridian Energy Limited, ANZ Bank New Zealand, Southern Cross Medical Care Society, Southern Cross Healthcare, and Tuatahi First Fibre Ltd.
Paul joined Tower as Chief Financial Officer in 2022 and was appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer in June 2025.
With 25 years' experience across multiple industries, particularly in the insurance and financial services sectors, Paul has extensive international, strategic, and operational finance expertise.
Prior to Tower, he was based in Tokyo as the Chief Financial Officer and Far East Region Director for Chubb, one of the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance companies. Before this, Paul spent almost 16 years in the UK with Chubb, AIG, Nomura Investment Bank and Deloitte.
He has a proven international track record in executive leadership and increasing profitability across consumer-focused companies.
As a Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, Alec has focused his career on addressing the breadth of sustainability challenges and opportunities that are increasingly shaping our communities, society and economy. This has included a range of leadership positions in academia, business and the public sector, alongside an active involvement in professional institutions, industry associations and networking groups.
Through these roles, Alec has become well-practised in the identification of strategic and operational sustainability risks as well as the development and delivery of solutions to meet these challenges. Alec has successfully built and led numerous diverse, multi-disciplinary teams through a focus on common values, aligned purpose and trust. His work has ranged from the development of high-level regional strategies on climate change, liveability and wellbeing, incorporating broad stakeholder and community engagement, through to the design and delivery of specific interventions and the creation of impact measures to gauge their success.
Alec’s diverse background means that he can couple an in-depth knowledge of organisational sustainability risks with an understanding of the operational contexts and behaviours that are present within complex organisations. In addition to these broad strategic and technical insights, his strengths include the core communication and interpersonal skills required to effectively engage and collaborate with the internal and external stakeholders that are critical to delivering long term transformation sustainability change.
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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Carla Britz
National Event Executive
+64 27 223 2802
Carla.Britz@iod.org.nz
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