TERENCE JEYARETNAM

Founding Director

terence@netbalance.com
T: +61 3 8641 6401
M: +61 (0) 448 588 041

Terence is a Founding Director of Net Balance in Melbourne and holds a degree in Environmental Engineering (UWA), is a Chartered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia. He is only one of six professionals globally to be awarded the grade of Lead Sustainability Assurance Practitioner by the International Register of Certified Auditors (IRCA) for signing off sustainability reports to the AA1000 Assurance Standard.  He has signed off as an independent assurance provider on over 200 corporate sustainability and environmental reports over the past decade. Terence is a specialist in sustainability strategy and disclosure. He was the youngest appointed EPA (Vic) Auditor, a role he held until 2008.  Some of his early work includes authoring the National Framework for Corporate Public Environmental Reporting for the Federal Government in 1998 and advising The Body Shop in the mid 90s.

Terence is on the Board of the Australian Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability (AISEA) and is also a member of the AccountAbility (UK) AA1000AS and AA1000APS (2008) Standards technical committee. He is also a judge for the Ethical Investor Corporate Sustainability Awards. Terence formerly chaired the College of Environmental Engineers, and Engineers Australia’s Sustainability Committee.  He has been a monthly columnist on sustainability for the Engineers Australia magazine for over six years, and is a member of the editorial board of the US Journal Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. In 2005, Terence was named as one of the top 10 most influential young engineers in Australia by Engineers Australia.

Terence is married to Lara and has two little girls Tilana (3) and Selena (2) with whom he has his hands full, and for whom he hopes his work makes a difference. He has one brother who lives in LA who is an engineer and a musician and his parents reside in Perth, where he grew up. He is a keen basketball player and enjoys reading, writing, photography and cooking. Few would know that he is a collector of the Phantom comic, the first ever super hero comic to be published in the world, and his collection which started at school now includes about half of the entire series.