Associate Professor Kate Crowley is an Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Policy at the University of Tasmania's School of Government. Kate led the development of the Framework for Action for Reducing the Government's Greenhouse Gas Emissions in late 2007. The Tasmanian Government has adopted this framework in full. The principled approach for action outlined in the framework was adopted by Cabinet as a guide for decision-making in all climate change policy development. These principles have been integrated into the Tasmanian Framework for Action on Climate Change and the State-LGAT partnership on climate action.  In December 2008 Kate received the Vice Chancellor's award for 'Individual - General Engagement with the Community' for her leadership and service to the community with regard to climate change.  Kate has Chaired both the Tasmanian Environment Industry Council and the University's Board of Graduate Research, has served on the Tasmania Together Board, and is currently an elected member of the University Council.

Dr John Church is a Chief Research Scientist employed by CSIRO in Hobart and is leader of the Sea Level Rise Program at the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem Cooperative Research Centre. He is a previous Chair of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), which designs and shapes research to better understand and predict the climate system. He was awarded the 2006 Roger Revelle Medal by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, was a winner of a CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement in 2006, won the 2007 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research and presented the 2008 AMOS R.H. Clarke Lecture. John is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. As a co-convening Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report, he is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

Professor Rob Adams is the Director, City Design and Urban Environment with the Melbourne City Council. He won the Prime Minister’s Environmentalist of the Year Award 2008 at the prestigious Banksia Environmental Foundation Awards for his work on Managing Droughts in a City of Parks Project.  He has been a visiting lecturer at RMIT and Melbourne University and in June 2004, the University of Melbourne recognised his contribution to the University and the city with the title of Professorial Fellow within the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.

Noel is Principal of Simply Good Business which specialises in strategic advice to corporations, government and not-for-profit organisations on: corporate responsibility and sustainability; stakeholder engagement; corporate governance; and environmental and social risk management. He has held senior executive roles at Westpac and served at senior levels within the Federal Public Service.  Over the past decade, Noel led Westpac’s corporate governance, responsibility and sustainability initiatives, which resulted in Westpac being consistently recognized as a true global leader in corporate governance, responsibility and sustainability. Noel is currently the Vice Chair of the Caux Round Table, a Board member of Philanthropy Australia, and a Trustee and Board member of several charitable organisations. In 2007 he was included in Ethical Corporation’s Best of the Best list of the top 15 ethical leaders globally to have made the biggest difference.  He is also an ambassador for Al Gore’s Climate Project global initiative.

Adam Kirkman is the Global Director Climate Change and Sustainability for Protiviti, an international business risk consulting firm. He was previously program manager for Energy and Climate Change at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva, Switzerland. He held this position for a period up to the conclusion of the recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Bali negotiations. In 2007, he was a member of the UNFCCC’s expert panel on finance and investment flows which presented its findings to Finance Ministers in Bali. He is co-author of many of the WBCSD’s recent publications on energy and climate change, including Policy Directions to 2050, which provides business input to the architecture for a post-2012 International Climate Agreement.

James Walch is currently chair of the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers (TFGA) Climate Change Taskforce. He is also an independent member of the TFGA Environment Policy Council. He is a former chairman of Wool Council and a past president of TFGA. Mr Walch manages a mixed farming operation based near Epping Forest in the Northern Midlands. Traditionally a wool growing business, it has diversified into intensive cropping including irrigated poppies, potatoes and lucerne. He is a self-proclaimed agricultural activist who has actively campaigned for the current irrigation development projects in Tasmania.

Rhys Edwards was appointed the Secretary, Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPAC) in June 2008. He has held a number of senior positions in the Tasmanian Government over the past 10 years.  Mr Edwards has a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) first class, from University of Tasmania. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1992 and completed a Masters degree in Comparative Social Research from Oxford University. Mr Edwards is a Fellow of the London-based 21st Century Trust, a member of the Economics Society of Australia, member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Associate Fellow of the Australian College of Health Care Executives. He is a past director of the Tasmanian Development Board and was appointed to the governing body of the University of Tasmania (“Council”) in January 2007.

Roger Jaensch is Executive Chairman of the Cradle Coast Authority, an independent body established by nine local councils to coordinate and drive regional development across north-west Tasmania. He is a member of the Tourism Industry Council of Tasmania Board, the University of Tasmania North-West Advisory Board, and the Institute for Regional Development Advisory Board. Before coming to Tasmania, Mr Jaensch worked on rural development, land use planning and structural adjustment projects in the Gascoyne, Murchison and Goldfields regions of Western Australia.

Ben Kearney was the director of the campaign to establish Coles Bay as a plastic bag-free town in 2003. He was Tasmanian of the Year in 2005 and was Australian of the Year – Local Hero in the same year. He has considerable experience in small business and tourism in various roles including President of the Freycinet Tourism Association, Board Member of the Baking Industry Association of Tasmania and President of the Coles Bay Community Association. He is currently State Manager of the Australian Newsagents Federation and a training consultant. He is also an inaugural board member of ‘Do Something’, a nationwide charity soon to be launched.

Nel Smit initiated and coordinated the Woodbridge Whole School Sustainability Program which won several awards including the National Landcare Education Award (2006-07), the United National World Environment Day Award for Education and Schools (2006), and the Tasmanian Environment Minister’s Award for Environmental Education (2006). As State Landcare Education Coordinator for the Department of Education, she initiated and coordinated many programs including Whole Farm Planning for School Farms.