During this period, Mr Clarke led the Commonwealth’s actions in the creation of the National Energy Market Rules and the three market bodies, served as the Chair of the Senior Committee of Officials (Commonwealth, State, Territory) under the COAG Ministerial Council on Energy, and led national and international energy policy development for Australia, including key leadership on climate change and resource development policies. He also helped establish the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, and was Australia’s member on the Governing Board of the International Energy Agency.

Mr Clarke was awarded Order of Australia in 2016 for distinguished service to public administration, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Ms Krieger has over 30 years of broad commercial experience as a lawyer, non-executive director, and economic regulator with particular focus on utilities and monopoly infrastructure.

Dr Davis holds a Master of Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Science (Honours), and a Company Directors Diploma. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Mr Pittard is Chairman of RXP Services Limited and non-executive director of Barnardos Australia. He has previously held senior executive roles with some of Australia’s largest corporations, including NewsCorp Australia, Telstra, Pioneer International, and Shell Australia and has been a Director of a number of disruptive digital companies, including REA Group and CareerOne Limited. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Her most recent Board level experience has included terms at Imdex Ltd, St Barbara and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. In her corporate career, Betsy has held senior strategy, regulatory and business development executive positions at EnergyAustralia, Woodside Petroleum and BHP Petroleum. Betsy is a dual citizen of both the United States of America and Australia.

He is a chartered power engineer, with international experience in governance, investor relations, operations management, finance and risk management. Of note, Tony was Chairman of the Electricity Supply Association of Australia (now known as the Energy Council of Australia) from 2009 to 2011, and in 2013 he held the role of CEO Asia-Pacific for GDF SUEZ Energy. In early 2015, Tony started up a large-scale solar PV business and in 2016 he was appointed to the Tasmanian Government energy security Taskforce following the drought and undersea cable failure in late 2015.

In his current role, he successfully led the company during almost two decades of rapid change and significant challenges, including acquisitions and restructures. By background, Mr Ficca is an electrical engineer, with a deep understanding of energy transmission and distribution grids and their importance in maintaining secure, reliable and high performing systems and in underpinning effective markets.

He is the immediate past chairman of the Energy Networks Association, and a past chair of CIGRE Australia.

In addition to several companies in the AusNet Services group, Mr Ficca is also a non-executive director of the Transurban Queensland Group.

Ms Nolan has had a distinguished career with the Western Australian public service, leading two government departments, as Director General of the Department of Finance and before that of the Department of State Development. The State Development role included working closely with large resource companies such as Chevron, Shell, BHP, Rio Tinto and Woodside in their large capital investment projects in Western Australia. Prior to that she served as the Deputy Director General, Cabinet and Policy Division in the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Ms Nolan has been at the forefront of energy reform in Western Australia for most of the last two decades. As Chief Executive of the Office of Energy from 2002 – 2006, Ms Nolan was responsible for driving the reform agenda that saw the introduction of a competitive electricity market in the WEM and an independent third-party network access regime and the disaggregation of Western Power.

Ms Nolan is currently non-executive director on the Fremantle Port Authority, the University of Western Australia Business School and the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra.