John Thwaites, Independent Director

John Thwaites is a Professorial Fellow, Monash University, and Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute and ClimateWorks Australia. He also chairs The Climate Group in Australia and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. He is a consultant to Maddocks Solicitors advising the firm and its clients on climate change, water and sustainability. John Thwaites was Deputy Premier of Victoria, from 1999 until his retirement in 2007. During this period he was Minister for Health, Minister for Planning, Minister for Environment, Minister for Water, Minister for Victorian Communities and Victoria’s first Minister for Climate Change.