Committee
The Committee consists of nine members who look after the day-to-day affairs of LCANZ. These are
Dr Barbara Nebel (President)
Barbara’s passion is to enable organisations to succeed sustainably. As CEO of thinkstep-anz she often describes her job as a translator. Translating sustainability into traditional business language. Together with her team, she delivers a full range of sustainability services from strategy and materiality assessments through to detailed Life Cycle Assessments and Cradle to Cradle® projects. Barbara has worked with organisations in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and Europe, effectively linking sustainability with business value.
As the founder of LCANZ, she initiated the Australasian EPD Programme. She is a member of the International EPD system and on the Steering Group for the Climate Leaders Coalition. Barbara has chaired the New Zealand working group for the development of ISO standards for Carbon Footprinting, is a Certified LCA Practitioner, and an associate editor for the International Journal of LCA.
John McArthur (Treasurer & Membership)
Joanne Duncan
Joanne graduated in 2018 with a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Management at Massey University. Prior to post graduate study she worked in accountancy in the business sector. The postgraduate study focused on life cycle assessment methodology, zero waste, product stewardship and the circular economy. She is passionate about sustainability in business. Joanne considers life cycle thinking and methodology provide an important insight and base to promote product stewardship. She is particularly interested in finding the types of incentives which will encourage businesses and consumers to take responsibility for environmental impacts over product life cycles. She thinks education would be a good place to start. She is a member of wasteMINZ and the Zero Waste Network.
Emily Townsend (Chair: Professional Development)
Emily is passionate about using data to help companies improve their sustainability performance. For over a decade she has worked in sustainability and continuous improvement roles with companies in Australia, New Zealand and the UK to implement robust reporting and analysis systems and develop pathways and strategies to reduce impacts while providing tangible business value.
Emily joined the thinkstep-anz team as a Sustainability Engineer in early 2018, following experience with both product and corporate sustainability in the Infrastructure and Construction Materials sector. In her previous role as Sustainability Programme Manager at Downer New Zealand, her main focus was developing and implementing an Energy Efficiency Programme. Prior to this, Emily was Sustainability Advisor at Tarmac Ltd, in the UK, where she developed and maintained Tarmac’s Carbon Footprint Calculator, providing site- and product-specific carbon footprints across Tarmac’s product range to a broad range of clients and infrastructure projects.
In her role with thinkstep-anz, Emily has worked on product and corporate sustainability projects for a range of clients as well as heading up internal projects. Emily is thinkstep-anz’s Services Director, helping join the dots across projects and share best practice.
The Committee is elected at every second Annual General Meeting from and by the members of the Association.