Andrew Leigh is the Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Federal Member for Fenner in the ACT. Prior to being elected in 2010, Andrew was a professor of economics at the Australian National University. He holds a PhD in public policy from Harvard, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in Law and Arts. Andrew is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and a past recipient of the ‘Young Economist Award’, a prize given every two years by the Economics Society of Australia to the best Australian economist under 40. His books include Disconnected (2010), Battlers and Billionaires (2013), The Economics of Just About Everything (2014) and The Luck of Politics (2015).

Frederic Papon is a director in EY’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services in Melbourne and brings over 15 years’ experience working on climate change and energy policy and strategy issues for the private and public sectors with significant international experience. Over this period Frederic has been close to the various evolutions of domestic and international carbon policy and continues to support public organisations and several major Australian commodities, oil and gas and chemicals companies in understanding the short and long-term implications of climate policy and renewable technologies on their business.

Frederic has contributed to a number of publications including, more recently, an analysis of the recommendations issued by the industry-led Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and key considerations for businesses and governments to aligned their policy, strategy and disclosures to the 2 degree goal. Frederic attended the COP21 in Paris (2015) as an observer as part of a group involving leaders from the Federal and State Government, business and academia

Fiona Hancock is a Senior Manager with EY’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services team based in Adelaide. With over 12 years’ experience in climate change and sustainability, Fiona specialises in carbon accounting, climate risk, and non-financial reporting and assurance. Fiona also has experience in strategy development and commercial analysis, and has assisted companies to understand the short and long-term implications of climate policy on their business. She is an experienced process engineer with a strong background in the oil and gas industry, including eight years working for Santos within the corporate carbon and sustainability team, and a number of oil and gas clients with EY. Fiona holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical), Master of Business Administration and a Graduate Certificate in Energy and Resources (Policy and Practice).

Saul is Wood Mackenzie’s thought leader for Australasia, covering energy, oil, gas, LNG and renewables. He has a background working in the venture capital, LNG, and government policy sectors. He has delivered strategic consulting projects for major listed Australian and international companies across the upstream, downstream, infrastructure and logistics sectors. Saul has presented at leading industry conferences in the region and is a regularly commentator on energy topics in broadcast and print media such as Sky News, Bloomberg, Reuters and the Australian Financial Review.
Prior to Wood Mackenzie, Saul worked with Australia’s largest oil and gas company, Woodside Energy, at Australia’s largest Venture Capital fund, M.H.Carnegie & Co, and also in corporate advisory roles in Africa. He has been an advisor on resources and economic development policy for African governments and institutions, including the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and African Union Commission. Saul holds degrees in Law (Honours) and Chemical Engineering (Honours) from the University of Melbourne

Before joining APPEA in June 2015, Malcolm Roberts was Chairman of the Queensland
Competition Authority.
He has considerable experience in industry associations, having held leadership roles with the
Energy Networks Association, The National Generators’ Forum, the Australian National
Retailers Association and the Housing Industry Association.
Dr Roberts has also worked in government as a policy adviser to ministers and in the
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He was an adviser and then chief of staff to
Ian Macfarlane in 2001-04 and 2006-07.