The GRI Focal Point Australia provides
guidance and support to local organizations, driving GRI’s mission
to make sustainability reporting standard practice
The current GRI Certified Training Partners for Australia
and New Zealand are listed. If you are interested in attending
the Certified Training Courses or Modules, please contact the
Training Partners directly by clicking on the link. You will
be re-directed to their website where you can find out when
and where each are offering the Certified Training Courses and
Modules, and how to register.
The GRI Focal Point Australia’s objectives are:
• Drive the mainstreaming of sustainability reporting through
engaging with new sectors and industries throughout Australia
• Communicate the latest developments around sustainability
reporting with stakeholder groups
• Channel local stakeholders’ feedback to GRI to increase local
ownership of sustainability reporting and GRI’s Framework.
The Focal Point is funded by CPA Australia and KPMG who are
members of the Focal Point Australia's Thought Leaders Council
(TLC). The TLC consists of a group of organisations that undertake
to make a financial or in kind contribution locally to the GRI
Focal Point Australia as well as contributing to the leadership
of a strategic objective of GRI in line with the objectives
of their own organisation. St James Ethics Centre is also a
member of the TLC along with the Australian Government who have
undertaken the role of observer.
The GRI Focal Point would like to thank its principal
supporters:
CPA, Australia
KPMG, Australia
The hosting partner is
Saint Ethics Centre
ADVISORY GROUP
To ensure the support and success of the GRI Focal
Point in Australia, a strategic multi- stakeholder advising
body around the Focal Point has been set up, in the shape of
an Advisory Group. Members of the Advisory Group currently are:
Stella Whittaker, RPS Group, Advisory Group Chair, GRI Stakeholder
Council Member
Peter Colley, National Research Director Construction, Forestry,
Mining & Energy Union (CFMEU), GRI Stakeholder Council Member
Rebecca Gunn, Ernst & Young, GRI Stakeholder Council Member
Robyn Leeson, NetBalance Foundation, GRI Stakeholder Council
Member Technical Advisory Council Member
Julian Poulter, Asset Owner’s Disclosure Project, GRI Stakeholder
Council Member
John Purcell, CPA Australia
Scott Rogers, Department of Treasury, Australian Government
Wayne Wescott, Independent Sustainability Consultant and Former
CEO ICLEI, Former GRI Stakeholder Council Member
Focal Point : Astralia Staff
VICTORIA WHITAKER
Head of GRI Focal Point Australia
whitaker@globalreporting.org
Victoria holds a Degree in Arts, and a Master of Education for
Sustainability. She draws on 10 years of local and international
experience in sustainability, which has focused largely on developing
policy, strategies and frameworks around a strategic approach
to sustainability. Victoria’s qualifications and experience have
provided her with an excellent understanding of contemporary challenges
in integrating sustainability into organizational policy and strategies
and in facilitating organizational and community behavior change.
Prior to working at GRI, Victoria most recently worked in sustainability
policy at CHOICE, and at the University of Cambridge Programme
for Sustainability Leadership, where she managed the Prince of
Wales’s Business and the Environment Program and Al Gore’s Climate
Project amongst other programs.
JACQUIE RUSSELL
Focal Point Australia Coordinator
russell@globalreporting.org
