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Robin Mellon explores how boards and management can build sustainable and resilient organisations.
Boards and executives are operating in a period of accelerating change where environmental and social pressures, geopolitical dynamics, shifting expectations and system-wide risks are increasingly shaping organisational performance. Climate and nature risks are no longer confined to strategy documents or disclosures — they are emerging through operating models, supply chains, standards and stakeholder relationships.
In this session, UN Global Compact Deputy Chair and CEO of Better Sydney, Robin Mellon, draws on his experience across property, infrastructure, construction and finance - including his former role as Chief Operating Officer of the Green Building Council of Australia - to explore how boards can build sustainable organisations in practice.
Robin will focus on the operating reality of governing change: how organisations adapt as norms shift ahead of regulation, where environmental risk concentrates across supply chains and built environments, and how boards can exercise meaningful oversight without drifting into management. He will reflect on what boards can reasonably ask for in terms of information and measurement, how to work with imperfect data while still making sound decisions, how resilience is built through systems rather than single initiatives, and how environmental sustainability increasingly intersects with social risk, including modern slavery, as expectations of responsible business conduct converge.
This session is designed to support directors and executives to govern and manage risk, resilience and change with clarity, realism and confidence.
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Group sales are available for this event for $600 incl. GST for a group of 10. Subject to availability at the time of booking. For enquiries or bookings, please contact amy.mcnicol@iod.org.nz.
Robin Mellon has combined his love of the environment, passion for sustainability, experience with supply chains, and qualifications in property and finance to become one of Australia’s experts on sustainable supply chains.
The former Chief Operating Officer of the Green Building Council of Australia, and founding CEO of Australia’s Supply Chain Sustainability School, Robin is now CEO of Better Sydney, Deputy Chair of the UN Global Compact Network Australia, the Project Manager for the Property Council of Australia’s Human Rights & Modern Slavery Working Group, and one of the International WELL Building Institute’s Global Community Advisory.
Robin was a member of the Australian Government’s first Modern Slavery Advisory Committee and is currently a member of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's Modern Slavery Advisory Council, as well as Chair of Judging for the NSW Sustainability Awards and National Banksia Awards.
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Ross Buckley CMInstD began his professional governance career in October 2020 after retiring from KPMG, where he was executive chair of the New Zealand firm from 2011 to 2020. Ross joined KPMG in Wellington in 1983 and held a variety of roles in New Zealand and overseas including serving as a board member of KPMG Asia Pacific and a member of KPMG’s Global Council.
Ross is an independent board director of ASB Bank, he chairs the Audit Committee and is a member of ASB’s Appointment and Remuneration, and Risk Committees. He is also the independent chair of Service Foods and a member of Massey University’s Council and chairs their Finance and Assurance Committee. Ross is an independent director at Investore Property Limited and independent director at Stride Property Group and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. Ross is also a member of the Audit Oversight Committee at Financial Markets Authority.
Ross has a BBS (Massey University) and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) and Fellow Certified Practising Accountant (FCPA). Ross is a Chartered Member of the IoD and was appointed Chair of the Board in June 2023.
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