Jennifer Barrett is the Director of Museum Studies at the University of Sydney. She is currently completing a manuscript for Museums and the public sphere for Blackwell Publishing (Oxford & NY 2008). Jennifer has co-authored a number of papers and exhibition catalogues with museum professionals. Her current research includes Australian Artists working in non-art museums (funded by the Australia Council for the Arts) and the use of cultural material from the colonial period held in British museums.

Charles Berger is Legal Adviser and Acting Director of Sustainability Strategies at the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). He is currently developing ACF’s work in the areas of ecological economics, sustainable production and consumption, and responsible investment. Charles has authored numerous reports and submissions for ACF, including False profits: how Australia’s finance sector undervalues the environment. He has also initiated several legal challenges to business activities with high environmental impacts.

Gavin Birch heads the Environmental Geology Group within the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. His Group specialises in assessing the impact of large population centres and industry on marine and estuarine systems. Estuarine research includes effects of sedimentary toxicants on benthic animals and developing sediment quality guidelines. Work on adjacent catchments involves identifying primary contaminant sources, stormwater remediation and harvesting, as well as modelling chemical loading to estuaries. Current research is focussing on integrating source, fate and effects contaminant models.

Christopher Dey is a researcher in the Centre for Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. He has 10 years post-doctoral experience in a diverse range of fields including integrated sustainability assessment, renewable energy technologies, greenhouse gas analysis, and ecological footprint analysis. 428

Barney Foran is currently a visiting fellow with The Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University Canberra. He has similar positions at the Physics Department at the University of Sydney and the Institute for land Water and Society at Charles Sturt University in Albury. Until September 2005 he was a senior analyst and formerly leader of the CSIRO Resource Futures group in Canberra. This group is given to running the numbers on Australia’s long term resource, environmental and technology options out to 2100. Over the last decade, the group has completed major studies on Australia’s human population (Future Dilemmas), marine fisheries (Fish Futures to 2050), land and water (Decision Points) and biomass energy (Beyond 2025). His most recent whole economy work is the study Balancing Act: A Triple Bottom Line Analysis of the Australian Economy, released in May 2005 in collaboration with the University of Sydney.

Miles Foran is an undergraduate student in Economics at the University of Sydney. Apart from his GIS work for the consumption atlas, Miles has worked with CSIRO’s resource futures program. Miles’ research interests include economic development and energy law.

Gabrielle Higgins has an extensive background in communication, education and the arts. With an undergraduate degree in performance studies from Victoria University, she has worked in community education, choreography and performance in both Australia and the USA. Following completion of the Master of Strategic Public Relations at the University of Sydney, Gabrielle has held positions in community consultation and deliberative democracy research, while also working as marketing co-ordinator for the Firefly Dance Club.

Dong-Sheng Jeng is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney. He is currently a chief investigator on a number of nationally competitive grants, including an ARC Discovery grant on ocean waves, groundwater and seabed interaction. Dong-Sheng has an extensive publications record, and has contributed to many federal and state government inquiries, ministerial committees and reports. His research interests include fluid -soil-structure interaction, coastal management, artificial neural network and 429its applications in civil engineering, offshore wind energy and groundwater hydraulics.

Rowena Joske has been the Sustainable Australia researcher at the Australian Conservation Foundation. Rowena’s recent work has focused on the environmental impacts of household consumption and on sustainable transport policy.

Manfred Lenzen is Professor of Sustainability Research at the University of Sydney, and heads the Centre for Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA). Manfred is involved in numerous research projects that involve business, government at all levels, and NGOs. Manfred has published more than 70 refereed academic papers and eight book chapters. He is currently working on sustainability analysis and reporting models that take into account international trade and thus integrate all world regions.

Mathew McKenzie completed his master degree with the University of Sydney’s Department of Media and Communications, with a major concentration in strategic public relations. He completed his BA at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 2003. Matt currently lectures to master students at the University of Sydney in the Department of Media and Communications. He also works at Issues Communications, an agency focused on issues-based communications, cause-related marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility consulting.

Phil McManus is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. His research interests include environmental and resource management, sustainable cities and regions, environmental history, forestry and how different concepts of nature influence environmental issues. He is the co-editor of two books and the author of Vortex cities to sustainable cities: Australia’s urban challenge (UNSW Press, 2005). Phil is currently working on an ARC Discovery Grant about the uses of nature in thoroughbred breeding, and on another ARC Discovery Grant about rural heartlands and changing economic, social and environmental relationships in these areas. Phil is a former director of environmental science at the University of Sydney, and for six years was on the National Council of the Australian Conservation Foundation. 430He is currently a member of the National Council of the Institute of Australian Geographers.

Catherine Maggs currently lectures postgraduate students, in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. Catherine completed her master degree in 2006. Her studies focused mainly on strategic public relations in the political, corporate and not-for-profit sectors. In her other life, Catherine is an executive for a new media content production and encoding company.

Eike Christian Meuter is a recent graduate of the University of Sydney’s Master of Strategic Public Relations Program. Eike has completed undergraduate studies in sociology in Germany and Sweden. He has gained work experience interning at newspapers and PR agencies in Germany and South Africa as well as a state government department in Australia.

John Mikler is a lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. His position focuses on business and public policy. Although an early career researcher, John has around 10 years’ experience in policy development and implementation as a result of several positions with the Australian Commonwealth Public Service, and related positions in local government and higher education. His research interests are primarily focused on the role of transnational economic actors, particularly multinational corporations, and the interaction between them and states, international organisations and civil society. He is interested in comparing rationalist and institutionalist approaches to understanding the way in which economic actors are regulated, or exercise private authority, especially with respect to the social and environmental impacts of their instrumentally-motivated actions.

Rosina Mladenovic is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney. Rosina is recognised as an accomplished researcher, receiving four Best Paper awards in the last seven years. In 2006 she was awarded a National Teaching Award (Carrick Citation) for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Rosina serves on the editorial board of three international journals and is 431an associate editor for Accounting Education: An International Journal. Rosina’s research interests include accounting education and environmental accounting.

Catriona Moore has written extensively on modern and contemporary Australian art. She is the author of Indecent Exposures: Twenty years of Australian feminist photography and editor of Dissonance: feminism and the arts 1970–1990. She lectures in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Sydney.

Stuart Rosewarne is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Stuart’s research interests are in the field of international political economy. He has published several pieces on global warming, focusing in particular on the failings of Australian government policy. Stuart is on the editorial board of Capitalism Nature Socialism and the executive board of the Asia-Pacific Environmental Council which conducts the Asia-Pacific Non-Government Organisation Environment Conference. (APNEC-8 will be held at the University of Sydney in November 2007.)

Erin Semon is originally from the United States, and holds a bachelor’s degree, in Gender Studies, from the University of Utah. Having recently completed her master degree in public relations, Erin is currently working towards her PhD in media communication at the University of Sydney. Erin aims to incorporate knowledge from her undergraduate and masters studies as she examines the role of women in political campaign communication.

Danielle Spruyt is a lecturer and PhD candidate with the Department of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney. She has worked as a lecturer in Political Economy of the Environment in the School of Political Economy, and in Resource and Environmental Management, with the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. Danielle’s research interests include ecological economics, political ecology, economic history and regional development. Her research experience includes employment in the Northern Territory in research, community consultation and policy development. 432

Timothy Stephens teaches international law and environmental law at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. A qualified solicitor and barrister, Tim holds a MPhil in geography from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Law from the University of Sydney. Tim has published widely on issues of international law, national and international environmental law and the law of the sea. His current areas of research interest include national and international climate change law and environmental dispute settlement. His first book, International courts and environmental protection, is being published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.

Sandra van der Laan is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Accounting in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney. Sandra’s research focuses on accounting as a social and institutional practice. Her work has been published in a number of leading international and national journals. Sandra has also received many research grants to further her research, including an ARC linkage grant examining the role of accountants in sustainability reporting.

Rutger Willem Vervoort has an undergraduate degree in soil and water engineering from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands and a PhD in soil hydrology from the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at the University of Georgia. He currently works at the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Sydney as the McCaughey Senior Lecturer Hydrology and Catchment Management. His main area of work has been on predicting deep drainage and shallow groundwater behaviour. His current research interests are related to surface water groundwater interaction, ecohydrological modelling and risk and uncertainty in hydrology. Current projects inter alia include a landscape hydrological model for the Mooki river catchment, rainwater harvesting and river flows in Rajasthan (India) and predicting tree cover from hydrological variables in a semi-arid landscape. Willem currently supervises and co-supervises eight postgraduate students, three of whom have projects integrating economics and biophysical modelling.

Richard Wood is a research associate with the Centre for Integrated Sustainability Analysis at the University of Sydney. Richard brings 433several years’ experience modelling environmental impacts from life-cycle perspectives and is completing a PhD investigating the temporal aspects of environmental-economic modelling. Richard is a published author in the fields of ecological footprints, energy policy and input–output analysis and has contributed to a wide range of government and industry reports.

Yun Zheng is a postgraduate student in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney. Yun is currently working on structural analysis of offshore mono-piles subjected to wind, hydrodynamic and soil loadings.