Peter Boyle has over 25 years of consulting experience in a wide range of areas and industries. He has worked in the disciplines of due diligence, regulatory assessments and advice, HSE reviews and audits, life cycle analysis, Integrated management system (IMS) development and implementation, probabilistic liability costing, corporate reporting, greenhouse emissions, sustainability and environmental assessment, delivery of sustainability and EMS training and renewable energy systems and assessment.

Christian Taylor is a coastal engineer with more than 20 years’ experience in coastal processes, port development and project management. After graduating in Civil Engineering in 1997, he spent the first 7 years of his career in a role focused on hydrodynamic modelling and metocean data collection. In 2003, he undertook a Master of Engineering Science degree in Coastal Engineering and Management at UNSW. Subsequently, he has held senior technical and project management roles on port infrastructure planning and climate change adaptation studies. Most recently, Christian has led several investigations into the port and logistics requirements for the construction of offshore wind projects in Bass Strait.

Lisa McKinnon has 25 years of experience in environmental management, sustainability and climate change areas.

Lisa has led major environmental assessments and construction management for a number of large-scale infrastructure and master planning projects, including the NDRRA road construction program across Queensland, the Spencer Gulf Port Link iron ore jetty construction EIS and the Cairns Cruise Shipping Development Project EIS. In recent years, she has specialised in marine projects that include port development, aquaculture, fisheries, climate change and coastal management projects. Most recently, Lisa has managed multi-disciplinary teams in several offshore wind and renewable energy studies and is BMT’s Programs Manager for Offshore Wind.

Kathryn Wheatley is a multi-skilled marine and environmental scientist, with over 15 years of professional experience on a wide variety of marine projects across commercial, government and research organisations. She has current and detailed working knowledge of scientific monitoring and technical reporting, Commonwealth and State environmental legislation, statutory permitting and approval processes, impact assessments, and compliance and auditing. Kathryn specialises in the development of Environment Plans (EPs) and Impact Assessments for offshore energy activities and has expertise with Australian offshore regulations, marine fauna conservation/management plans and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). Kathryn has a keen interest in the renewable sector.