Professor John Thwaites
Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute and Chair of ClimateWorks Australia
Professor John Thwaites is Chair of the Monash Sustainability Institute and Chair of ClimateWorks Australia. He is a consultant at Maddocks Solicitors, chairs the Climate Group Ltd in Australia, the Peter Cullen Water and Environment Trust and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and is a director of the Australian Green Building Council. In 2008 and 2009, he was a special adviser to the Timor-Leste Minister for Infrastructure. Thwaites was Deputy Premier of Victoria from 1999 until his retirement in 2007, also serving as Minister for Health, Minister for Planning, Minister for Environment, Minister for Water, Minister for Victorian Communities and Victoria's first Minister for Climate Change. He has degrees in Law (Honours) and Science from Monash University.
John was a panellist at the US Studies Centre's City of the Future conference.
