Six areas, one thread: practical delivery.
Academic grounding plus years in the rooms where the decisions get made.
Climate action and resilience
Regional adaptation strategy, natural hazard risk, and building adaptive capacity across urban and rural Canterbury.
Disaster recovery
Post-earthquake rebuild experience, community-led recovery models, and civil defence emergency management governance.
Governance and risk
Council and board governance, risk frameworks, RMA hearings decisions and open, LGOIMA-ready decision-making.
Freshwater and biodiversity
Water allocation and quality, biosecurity, and mātauranga Māori in freshwater planning.
Local government reform
Reorganisation proposals, water services reform and the future shape of regional government, through Te Uru Kahika.
Food security and indigenous knowledge
Doctoral research on mātauranga Māori, kaitiakitanga and resilient agricultural systems. Read about it.
How I can help.
Speaking and workshops
Keynotes and panels on climate, governance, recovery and resilience.
Governance and board roles
Experience across environmental, risk and strategic governance.
RMA hearings commissioner
Accredited for consent hearings and plan changes.
Paid work is declared and managed under Environment Canterbury's conflict of interest rules. Work that could overlap with council decisions is declined.