MsElsa Dominish

Elsa joined the Institute for Sustainable Futures in early 2015, with experience working on natural resources and climate change projects within research, non-government organisations and the private sector in Australia and Asia.

At ISF Elsa works across the areas of resources, energy, food systems and international development. She has been involved in several projects developing future scenarios, including for resource demands for renewable energy, employment impacts for energy technologies and the transition to 100% renewable energy for Australia. Elsa is a key researcher in the Wealth from Waste Cluster collaboration, a three-year, A$9m research program led by ISF that is identifying opportunities to progress resource productivity towards a circular economy for the metals sector in Australia. Elsa was a key organiser of the World Resources Forum Asia-Pacific held in June 2015, which brought together local and regional experts in sustainable resource management.

Before joining ISF Elsa worked with an NGO in Vietnam on a capacity building project on climate change, land rights and community forest management. Prior to this Elsa worked as an analyst for a carbon management consultancy, providing technical advice on carbon markets, carbon footprint methodologies and undertaking research on the social and environmental impacts of carbon mitigation projects. Elsa's broader research interests include social equity in natural resource management and land use change, climate change mitigation and global markets for resources and carbon.