Geoff is a Research Fellow at the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research in Canberra. From 2015-2022 he was a Senior Policy Officer at the ACT Council of Social Service where he managed the ACT Energised Consumers Project, undertaking evidence-based advocacy for small energy consumers and for a just and inclusive transition in the ACT. Geoff remains active in the ACT community sector as a member of ACT Shelter’s Executive Committee and as a director on the board of Council on the Ageing ACT. He remains engaged in energy consumer advocacy locally and as member of the COTA Energy Advocates national network.

Neil has more than 30 years of energy industry experience across the electricity and gas sectors including roles in retail, distribution and asset management. He currently holds a number of roles including Director of the Research Centre for Energy Data Innovation and Director, External Engagement in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Queensland as well as Chair of the Customer and Community Reference Group for Queensland Urban Utilities

Jonathan is Director Policy and Engagement at the First Nations Clean Energy Network, a national network established to ensure First Nations participate in and benefit from Australia's clean energy transition. He is an experienced lawyer, advocate, strategist and policy analyst with over 20 years' working across the private, public and community sectors, and in First Nations-controlled organisations and alongside First Nations people and communities across Australia.

Simon Moore is responsible for Business NSW advocacy relating to the infrastructure businesses depend on to function, including energy as well as transport, telecoms and water. Simon sits on several energy industry stakeholder bodies as Business NSW’s representative, including Essential Energy’s customer advocacy group and Jemena Gas Network’s customer council.

Andrew is a Director of independent energy consultancy The Energy Project Pty Ltd. Andrew’s background began in electrical engineering before shifting focus to renewable energy and energy consumer issues and has since worked as the Technical Director of the South Australian Government’s Sustainability and Climate Change Division, energy advisor to the Conservation Council of SA and the South Australian Council of Social Service (SACOSS), end-use consumer representative on the Australian Energy Market Commission’s Reliability Panel and a member of the Australian Energy Regulator’s Consumer Challenge Panel.

In 2018, Andrew completed a PhD in Energy Policy at University College London and has since served as Chair of SA Power Networks’ Consumer Consultative Panel and inaugural chairperson of AEMO’s Integrated System Plan Customer Panel. This experience is now being applied to managing risks and compliance of Embedded Networks around Australia.

Caitlin has worked in the not-for-profit sector for over 40 years, in a range of roles including admin and reception, project work, management and leadership, and has sat on numerous management committees and boards of management. Now living and working in Darwin, Caitlin in originally a Sydneysider whose first job in the sector was for the Tenants Union of NSW. As Senior Policy Officer at NTCOSS, Caitlin works across a broad range of policy issues including utilities, climate change and cost of living, with a particular focus on eradicating energy poverty in the Northern Territory.

Asha Ramzan is the Executive Officer of Sydney Community Forum.
Sydney Community Forum has been working towards social justice, inclusion, and sustainability outcomes for and with socially and economically disadvantaged and marginalised communities in Sydney since 1974. SCF leads the Voices for Power Energy Literacy & Access to Renewables Project with migrant communities in Western and South-Western Sydney.
Asha has worked in various leadership, therapeutic, teaching, community development and management roles in the Community Sector since 1989. Asha is committed to the praxis of social, economic and climate justice, social inclusion and sustainability in all aspects of her work and life.

As Founding CEO and Director of the Thriving Communities Partnership, Ciara Sterling convenes over 350 organisations, together with people with lived experience, to forge deeper understanding of vulnerability and drive ecosystem change through social design innovation. Ciara is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Consumer Action Law Centre (CALC), is a member of the White Ribbon Advisory , the Monash Safe and Equal Advisory board and a founding member of the Economic Abuse Reference Group (EARG). She has over 20 years’ experience collaborating across corporate, government and community sectors to address the root causes of vulnerability domestic abuse and inequality.

Damian Sullivan, who joined the Brotherhood of St. Laurence in 2007, leads the Climate Change and Energy team in the Social Policy and Research Centre. Damian worked previously on the Trade, Environment and Sustainability campaign at Friends of the Earth International. He has also taught subjects in the Masters of Public Advocacy and the Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University, and presented guest lectures in the Masters of Social Policy at the University of Melbourne. His research, policy and advocacy work focuses on the intersection of social equity and environmental sustainability, particularly the relationship between energy affordability, energy efficiency and climate change.

Dr Phillipa Watson aims to support people to live great and sustainable lives. To this end, as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University and the University of Tasmania (UTAS), she works in applied research with a variety of collaborators, to understand and enhance peoples’ real life housing transition and energy transition experiences.