Kim Farrant

Kim has seven years professional experience in sustainability strategy and reporting, climate change, environmental management and engineering design. She has worked with clients spanning the insurance, superannuation, transport, oil and gas, mining, construction and retail industries. Kim jointly leads Net Balance's Climate Change business line. She has extensive  experience in greenhouse gas inventory development  and audit, provision of sustainability assurance and advisory services, life cycle analysis, climate change adaption and mitigation, and sustainability strategy development.

Kim is a registered greenhouse and energy auditor with the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCCEE) – Level 1 (technical and non-technical) and Level 2 (audit leader). She has significant experience managing NGER assurance engagements. This has included a number of engagements for ASX 20 organisations with activities across a broad range of sectors.

Kim is a member of the Institution of Engineers Australia. She is also a reviewer for the Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal and guest lectures at Swinburne University’s carbon accounting course.

In her previous roles, Kim worked with Sustainable Asset Management, where she was responsible for the assessment and benchmarking of ASX200 companies against triple bottom line criteria. Kim also worked for a number of years in the engineering industry. During this time she served on office sustainability committees, undertook office ecological foot printing and developed an office green travel plan.

Kim graduated from the University of Adelaide with 1st class Honours in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor's degree in Economics. As a Commonwealth Scholar, Kim completed an M.Sc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy at the University of Oxford. Her Oxford dissertation researched the role that shareholder resolutions play in holding multinational corporations socially and environmentally accountable. In 2007, she completed the Melbourne Future Sustainability Leaders Program.