A/ProfKatie Vines

Research Director And Industry Associate Professor

Institute for Sustainable Futures

BIO

Katie is a climate change adaptation and resilience expert with experience across federal, state and local government, industry and not-for-profit. Katie manages large, multi-stakeholder projects that take a place-based, systems approach to effectively build resilience and adapt to climate change in complex contexts. She is an adaptation, resilience and systems thinking expert with experience across federal, state, local government and industry.  

Katie’s expertise lies in facilitation and collaboration, capacity building, engagement, organisational change, and translating technical climate risk analysis for end users. 

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Director
    Aurecon (Australia), Risk and Resilience, Sydney, Australia1 Jun 2023 - 30 Jun 2026
  • Director Sustainable and Resilient Cities
    Climate KIC Australia, Sydney, Australia1 Sep 2017 - 31 May 2023
  • Head of Adaptation Research
    C40 Cities Climate Leadership Coalition, New York, USA2 Sep 2013 - 31 Aug 2017
  • Principal Policy Officer
    NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Sydney, Australia7 Jan 2008 - 2 Sep 2013

DEGREES

  • Masters of Environmental Management
    University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia24 Jan 2005 - 12 Dec 2008
  • Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia12 Jan 1998 - 14 Dec 2001
  • Graduate Diploma, Education
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia14 Jan 2002 - 13 Dec 2002

PROFILE TYPE

  • Academic

AVAILABILITY

  • Collaborative projects
  • Industry Projects
  • Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
  • Membership of an advisory committee
  • Media enquiries
  • Technical support