KIM FARRANT

Associate Director

kim@netbalance.com
T: +61 3 8641 6409
M: +61 (0) 448 588 056

Kim has five years professional experience in the sustainability consulting sector, and previously as a structural design and environmental engineer. Since joining Net Balance she has worked with clients spanning the insurance, superannuation, transport, oil and gas, mining and retail industries, as well as a number of government departments. Kim jointly leads Net Balance's Assurance business line and is Net Balance's Business Development Manager. She has skills in the provision of sustainability assurance and advisory services, greenhouse gas inventory development, life cycle analysis and policy development. Kim is currently also co-ordinating the Asia Pacific Working Group of the United Nations Environment Program's "Principles for Responsible Investment".

In her previous roles, Kim undertook an internship 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, in addition to her structural design role serving on office sustainability committees, undertaking office ecological foot printing and developing 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. Recently, she completed the Melbourne Future Sustainability Leaders Program.