Kath Rowley is Executive Director of the Climate Change Division in Victoria’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. She leads the Department’s work on climate change mitigation and adaptation, where her team is helping restore Victoria to a position of leadership on climate change action in Australia.
Kath joined DELWP in April 2016, after three years as General Manager of Reviews at the Climate Change Authority, the independent agency established in 2012 to advise the Australian Government on policies to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.
She has been working on climate change and energy policy since 2004, including leadership roles in the Department of Climate Change in Canberra and the global think tank the Climate Policy Initiative in San Francisco.