Professor John Thwaites is Chair of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Chair Climateworks Centre and Chair of The McKinnon Institute for Political Leadership. He is on the Board of Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand.

He is a Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (“SDSN”) launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations to provide expert advice and support to the development and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

He has chaired many other organisations including Melbourne Water, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and the Australian Building Codes Board. John is Chair of the Circular Economy Ministerial Advisory Group to the Australian Government and Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (“SDSN”).

John Thwaites was Deputy Premier of Victoria from 1999 until his retirement in 2007. During this period, he held various Ministerial portfolios including Minister of Health, Minister of Environment and was Victoria’s first Minister for Climate Change.