Speaker

Prof. Dr. Paul Dargusch

Dr Paul Dargusch currently serves as Chair of the Carbon Hub and as a tenured Associate Professor at The University of Queensland (UQ). He has more than 20 years’ professional experience across consulting, academia and the private sector in the field of carbon and energy management. From 2016 to 2018 Paul served as the Deputy Head of UQ’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Australia’s top ranked University for environmental science (and in the top five globally). He has published more than 100 papers on carbon and energy management in leading peer-reviewed journals including in Science and Nature Climate Change. He is the current lead-lecturer of Carbon and Energy Management, a course offered at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at UQ to more than 200 students per year. From 2007 to 2016, Paul served as the Director of the UQ Carbon Lab, and from 2011 to 2015, he concurrently served as Academic Director of the International Energy Centre. He has led a number of high-level consultancy projects for various Governments and large corporations, providing advice on carbon and energy management and carbon offset project development around the world. He has completed projects for Government agencies in China, Indonesia, the UAE, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and Australia; some of the world’s largest corporations; and leading development agencies, such as the World Bank, the UNDP, GIZ, and the FAO of the UN. Prior to joining UQ, from 1996 to 2007 Paul held various senior roles in the resources sector; including as a Forester with North Ltd and as a Special Projects Manager with Japanese trading house Itochu Corporation.