Creating a sustainable business for the 21st century

Ali Moore is a journalist with almost twenty of experience. She currently works for the ABC, which is where she began her career in 1987.

After completing a Bachelor of Arts at Melbourne University, Ali joined the ABC as a graduate cadet, covering the major rounds for news, including finance and politics, before shifting to radio current affairs, reporting for AM, PM and The World Today. In 1992 she was appointed China Correspondent, based in Beijing. When she returned to Sydney three years later, Ali became the ABC’s national Finance Correspondent.

In 1996 Ali moved to the Nine Network to work on the weekly business current affairs program, Business Sunday, first as a reporter, and then, for the past three and a half years, as host of the program. Over the past decade she has interviewed the key decision makers in Australian business and covered the major corporate, economic and market issues in both Australia and around the world.

Her feature stories have focussed on issues as diverse as the uranium debate in Australia and the corporate risks of bird flu, to regular panel discussions of key investment issues. Around the region, she has reported from Hong Kong on the Asia financial crisis, Japan on bilateral trade, Thailand on Asia’s biggest bankruptcy, and from Indonesia on the jailing of an Australian mining executive.

Now Ali’s career has come full circle, returning to the national broadcaster where it all began. In her words, she’s ‘come home’ to present Lateline Business, an opportunity seemingly tailor made for her return to the ABC.

Emma Cochrane has been with ExxonMobil for 27 years, having joined Esso UK in 1985 after graduating from the University of Bristol with a BSc (Hons) in Biology. Through 2000, she held a number of increasingly senior commercial positions in Exxon’s downstream businesses and worked in Exxon Company International in New Jersey for several years.

After the merger between Exxon and Mobil in 2000, Emma transferred to ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing, working new business development opportunities while based in Houston (2000–02) and in Doha, Qatar (2002–05). In September of 2005, Emma transferred to the position of Manager, Americas Gas Marketing, responsible for natural gas, helium and CO2 marketing in the USA, and natural gas marketing in Canada and South America. In April 2008, she became Manager—Negotiations and Contract Development in Commercial Resources, and in May 2009 she became Manager, Business Planning and Analysis, where she has had global responsibility for strategic planning and economic analysis for ExxonMobil’s flowing gas, LNG, power and new business development activities.

Effective 1 May 2011, she became Vice President, Asia Pacific, Africa and Power, ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Company. She is also a board member of the US-ASEAN Business Council.

The Hon. Chris Hartcher was born and raised in NSW and educated at Sydney University. He practiced as a solicitor in Sydney and later on the NSW Central Coast.

Chris was first elected in 1988 as the Member for Gosford to the NSW Parliament, where he held many positions—serving as government whip from 1991 to 1992 and then serving as Minister for the Environment from June 1992–95 in the Fahey Government.

While Minister for the Environment, Chris was responsible for developing the national initiative on lead-free petrol and for the creation of a number of new National Parks and Wilderness Areas, including Mount Popran National Park on the Central Coast.

After the Fahey Government left office in 1995, Chris held a number of positions on the front bench of the Opposition—he was Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2002–03 and served as Shadow Minister on SOCOG as the Shadow Minister for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

After the electoral redistribution in 2006, Chris stood for the new seat of Terrigal at the March 2007 NSW State Election. He was re-elected as the Member for Terrigal in March 2011.

After the 2011 election, Chris was appointed Minister for Resources and Energy, Special Minister for State and Minister for the Central Coast.

Paul Zealand manages Origin’s portfolio of oil and gas assets in Australia and New Zealand, including Australia’s largest coal seam gas resources in Central Queensland. He is also responsible for Origin’s exploration activities focused on the long-term growth and development of the upstream business.

Prior to joining Origin in 2005, Paul was Country Chairman for the Shell Companies in New Zealand, and also General Manager for the Shell Todd Operating Services (STOS) Company. During his 25 years with Shell, Paul also held positions in various locations in Europe and Australia. In each role, Paul applied his experience and expertise to deliver business improvement, growth and opportunity for organisations and projects under his stewardship.

While at Shell, he designed and led major change programs to improve organisational effectiveness in many of his assignments. The restructuring programs and business improvements Paul developed for Shell UK Expro (Aberdeen) achieved impressive results across core indicators including costs, production, safety, environment, and reliability. This structure has since become a Shell global model and is implemented throughout the world.

As a leader in the industry, Paul is a director on the board of the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) and a member of key industry bodies including Engineers Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). Paul has a MBA (Masters of Business Administration with distinction) and a Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering (Hons).

Prior to Shell, Paul started his career as a Marine Engineer with a UK shipping company. Before settling permanently in Australia in 2005, Paul had worked in Australia from 1992–98 as the LNG Engineering Manager for Woodside Petroleum and the Supply Operations Manager at the Shell Clyde Refinery.

Duncan Fraser is Vice President of National Farmers’ Federation (NFF), and owns and manages ‘Narringa’—a 9,750 ha pastoral and irrigation property near Hay in the western Riverina. The family farm, run by Duncan, his wife Louise and their two children, produces wool, sheep meat, rice and wheat.

Duncan holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics from the University of New England and has long been involved in agricultural advocacy and lobbying.

His role as an agricultural representative began 27 years ago, when he was elected president and secretary of the Hay branch of the LGPA, the precursor to the NSW Farmers’ Association. Since that time he held many executive positions in the association, including places on the general council and committees for wool, sheepmeat, meat and livestock, education, workplace relations, and conservation and resource management. He was the chair of Farmsafe NSW from 1999 to 2000 and the Vice President of the NSW Farmers’ Association from 2001 to 2003.

In November 2010, Duncan was elected Vice-President of the NFF, where he is also Chair of the NFF Mining and Coal Seam Gas Taskforce.

Peter Cleary is responsible for Santos’s commercial, strategy and planning, corporate development, and public affairs functions.

Peter has extensive global experience in the petroleum industry and joined Santos from BP in September 2010. He was most recently President of North West Shelf Australia LNG, the LNG marketing company for the North West Shelf Venture. During his 24 year career with BP, Peter held senior management positions in Australia, Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and the United Kingdom.

Peter Stone is Deputy Chief of CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences and the Director of GISERA, the Gas Industry Social and Environmental Research Alliance. GISERA is a vehicle initiated by Australia Pacific LNG and CSIRO to foster collaborative public good research into the social and environmental challenges and opportunities associated with Australia’s growing gas industry.

Peter’s work history includes farm management, food industry consulting, grain trading and agricultural research. For much of the last 10 years, his research has focused on the use of contested land-based resources, seeking to understand the intersection of a range of scientific, community and industry perspectives.