Terence Jeyaretnam

Terence is a Partner with EY’s Climate Change and Sustainability team based in Melbourne. He was the Executive Director and Founder of Net Balance until its acquisition by EY in 2014. Net Balance (and Net Balance Foundation) was regarded as Australia’s largest standalone sustainability and climate change practice, one of Australia’s first B Corporations, twice rated along the way by BRW as one of the fastest 100 growth companies in Australia.

Terence is an environmental engineer and an environmental and sustainability advisory and assurance specialist with over twenty-five years’ experience in advising governments and corporations on sustainability issues. Terence is a non-executive director of Global Citizen (Australia), Fairtrade Australia New Zealand, Food Frontier and Legal Sector Alliance and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Queensland. He acts as a Senior Advisor for SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board) in Australia and is a member of the Technical Working Group of CDSB (Carbon Disclosure Standards Board).

Professional background and qualifications
• Bachelor of Environmental Engineering from the University of Western Australia (1993)
• Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia (FIEAust)
• Adjunct professor at the University of Southern Queensland’s Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development
• Cambridge University Programme for Executive Sustainability Leadership – The Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme (2014)
• Lead Certified Sustainability Assurance Practitioner (AccountAbility UK)