Executive Committee 2024
The members below were elected to the EAROPH Australia Executive Committee at the Annual General Meeting held 17 May 2024 online.
President
Peter Cuming
Peter is the Founder and Managing Director of Sustainable Futures Australia, based in Byron Bay. Peter's work focuses on sustainability planning and education, eco-settlement design, futures visioning, key liaison facilitation and mediation, and project management. Peter has worked cooperatively with communities, industry, and governments in high level policy-making and corporate and strategic planning for over 30 years. He leads project teams working on local, regional, and national sustainability strategies, plans, and activities.
Vice President
Jaime Parsons
Jaime Parsons is an urban designer and strategic planner with extensive experience in large scale strategic and masterplanning projects, both in established areas and new communities. He also has considerable expertise in the conceptualisation and delivery of medium and higher density dwellings, shopping districts and public infrastructure. Jaime holds two degrees in Tourism and Marketing, and postgraduate qualifications in both Tourism Planning and Development and Urban Design. Having worked in the private and public sectors in Australia and the Solomon Islands, he has an understanding of how the urban development process can be influenced to achieve better urban design outcomes. Jaime has presented at several public events and conferences on topics ranging from waterfront development in the Solomon Islands to emerging urbanism in Spain. He has also authored several articles in urban planning publications and organised and led an urban planning and design tour of urbanism in post-GFC Spain. Jaime has lived in six countries and is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Secretary
Martin Butcher
Martin's first career was as a Government architect in the Ministry of Housing, Victoria and later in the Ministry of Works, Swaziland (Now Eswatini). Whilst in Swaziland he was on the local steering committee for a World Bank Urban Upgrading program. This experience lead to undertaking an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning and subsequently managing the Community Renewal Program for the NSW Dpt. of Housing (Northern Region). In turn, this lead to completing a PhD in Participatory Development and a 20yr second career at the Dpt. of Environment, Energy and Climate Adaptation (DEECA) as a Community Engagement Adviser. Now freelance, he is passionate about exploring and promoting the potential of the online environment to enable Human Intelligence (HI) to effectively contribute to creating the kind of culture and built environment we'd like to have.
Public Officer
Adithya R. Ranjith
Adithya is an accomplished architect and urban planner originally from Chennai, India, now residing in Hobart, Australia. He began his career working with multinational corporations across South Asia and pursued a postgraduate degree in urbanism in Australia. With over a decade of diverse experience, he established a boutique architecture and urbanism practice in Hobart, managing private and public projects in New South Wales and Tasmania. His approach integrates thorough planning regulations with innovative design principles, emphasizing sustainable development, and aesthetic excellence, significantly contributing responsible outcomes to the built environment in Australia and India.
Treasurer
Kerry McGovern
Kerry was the Founding President of EAROPH Australia. She is a Certified Practising Accountant and professional internal auditor with extensive experience in public sector governance, whole-of-government asset and public financial management across the Pacific, South East Asia and the Middle East. She co-authored PRIF's "Infrastructure Maintenance in the Pacific: Challenging the Build-Neglect-Build Paradigm" and has contributed to the UN Handbook for Local and National Governments "Managing Infrastructure Assets for Sustainable Development". Kerry appreciates the need for central agencies of government, particularly Ministries of Finance, to monitor the long-term costs of climate change and natural disasters on infrastructure, and to influence the line ministries and SOEs that are responsible for delivering infrastructure services to design and maintain assets to optimize life cycle benefits to communities.
Ordinary Members of the Executive Committee
Dr Jane Stanley
Dr Jane Stanley is qualified in architecture, town planning, social and economic research. She is an award winning planner with experience in Australia and overseas, and she is a past President of the International Division of the Planning Institute of Australia. Jane is author of the planning textbook “Gnarly Planning: some tools for local and global action” and she is currently working on a second version: “Gnarly Planning for a Wicked World”. At the World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur she launched an e-book on How to Build Local Economies. Her current work includes overseeing a national audit of the informal economy in Papua New Guinea, developing renewable energy options for farmers in Australia, and business planning for closed loop manufacturing in the dairy industry. Jane served as President of EAROPH Australia until 2021.
John Holland
John is an urbanist qualified in planning, natural resource management, economics, and management. He has a particular interest in optimising the outcomes of every development decision in order to deliver sustainable, liveable communities. John has focussed much of his energy on improving the delivery of suburbs on the growing edge of Melbourne. He is a Registered Planner with the Planning Institute of Australia serving several terms as a committee member and Vice President with the Victorian Division of PIA. In these roles he represented PIA in consultation with and submissions to the State throughout the creation of new policy for the long-term planning for and development in Victoria. John strives for improvement through innovative solutions and has advocated extensively for this approach.
Mia Davison
Mia is a human geographer and strategic planner with an Executive Master of Public Administration from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Social Science (Environment and Planning) from RMIT University. Her areas of expertise include sustainable development, urban and rural planning, and multilateral and multilevel governance. Mia has significant experience working for local, state and national governments, private consultancies, and other non-government groups within Australia and the United Kingdom. Mia currently works as Manager of Places and Precincts at Victoria’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP). She is also a Member of the Programme Committee of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA). Mia is currently based in Melbourne and previously served as the President of EAROPH International.
Roland Chanin-Morris
Ms Christina Ting
Christina Ting is a social scientist with a keen interest in working on projects that support and facilitate individuals and different sectors of society to enable them to realise the SDGs as part and parcel of their everyday activity and work. Her areas of expertise are education and research. She has taught Geography, Sociology of the Environment and Social Sciences in countries such as Singapore and Australia. As a community outreach officer, she educated communities on protecting waterways and water conservation. Christina is also a Climate Reality Leader who delivers talks to the public and organisations on the harmful effects of climate change and solutions at the grassroots level. Her research areas include her doctoral research at Swinburne University, Melbourne, which was to understand sustainable living that focused on the pre- and post-migration consumption behaviours of migrants from China and Australia-born residents living in Melbourne. Her postdoctoral work (also at Swinburne University) was on rural informal transport in Sarawak, Malaysia. She holds a double master degree in International Development and Environmental Analysis from Monash University, Melbourne, and Environmental Sciences and Policy from the Central European University, Budapest.
Roger Brewster
Dr. Roger Brewster has a multi-faceted career in land use and environmental planning spanning 45 years as a
member of the Planning Institute of Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Science and engineering from RAAF
Academy, a Master of Town Planning from Adelaide University and in 2016 a PhD from Bond University,
researching adaptation strategies for sustainable residential development in an oil-constrained future. Roger
has worked in Commonwealth and State Governments in planning, environmental and disaster management
fields, and as a consultant environmental planner, based mainly at the Gold Coast of Australia. He is
passionate about addressing two of the most serious Wicked Global Problems – climate change and energy
transition, including oil restriction impacts on the environment and society as the world embraces a post oil
economy. He brings enthusiasm and administrative experience to the role of Secretary of EAROPH Australia
Chapter.
Australian Honorary Presidents
Michael Harbison
Hon. Candy Broad
Mr. K.C. Leong
President
Peter Cuming
Peter is the Founder and Managing Director of Sustainable Futures Australia, based in Byron Bay. Peter's work focuses on sustainability planning and education, eco-settlement design, futures visioning, key liaison facilitation and mediation, and project management. Peter has worked cooperatively with communities, industry, and governments in high level policy-making and corporate and strategic planning for over 30 years. He leads project teams working on local, regional, and national sustainability strategies, plans, and activities.
Vice President
Jaime Parsons
Jaime Parsons is an urban designer and strategic planner with extensive experience in large scale strategic and masterplanning projects, both in established areas and new communities. He also has considerable expertise in the conceptualisation and delivery of medium and higher density dwellings, shopping districts and public infrastructure. Jaime holds two degrees in Tourism and Marketing, and postgraduate qualifications in both Tourism Planning and Development and Urban Design. Having worked in the private and public sectors in Australia and the Solomon Islands, he has an understanding of how the urban development process can be influenced to achieve better urban design outcomes. Jaime has presented at several public events and conferences on topics ranging from waterfront development in the Solomon Islands to emerging urbanism in Spain. He has also authored several articles in urban planning publications and organised and led an urban planning and design tour of urbanism in post-GFC Spain. Jaime has lived in six countries and is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Secretary
Martin Butcher
Martin's first career was as a Government architect in the Ministry of Housing, Victoria and later in the Ministry of Works, Swaziland (Now Eswatini). Whilst in Swaziland he was on the local steering committee for a World Bank Urban Upgrading program. This experience lead to undertaking an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning and subsequently managing the Community Renewal Program for the NSW Dpt. of Housing (Northern Region). In turn, this lead to completing a PhD in Participatory Development and a 20yr second career at the Dpt. of Environment, Energy and Climate Adaptation (DEECA) as a Community Engagement Adviser. Now freelance, he is passionate about exploring and promoting the potential of the online environment to enable Human Intelligence (HI) to effectively contribute to creating the kind of culture and built environment we'd like to have.
Public Officer
Adithya R. Ranjith
Adithya is an accomplished architect and urban planner originally from Chennai, India, now residing in Hobart, Australia. He began his career working with multinational corporations across South Asia and pursued a postgraduate degree in urbanism in Australia. With over a decade of diverse experience, he established a boutique architecture and urbanism practice in Hobart, managing private and public projects in New South Wales and Tasmania. His approach integrates thorough planning regulations with innovative design principles, emphasizing sustainable development, and aesthetic excellence, significantly contributing responsible outcomes to the built environment in Australia and India.
Treasurer
Kerry McGovern
Kerry was the Founding President of EAROPH Australia. She is a Certified Practising Accountant and professional internal auditor with extensive experience in public sector governance, whole-of-government asset and public financial management across the Pacific, South East Asia and the Middle East. She co-authored PRIF's "Infrastructure Maintenance in the Pacific: Challenging the Build-Neglect-Build Paradigm" and has contributed to the UN Handbook for Local and National Governments "Managing Infrastructure Assets for Sustainable Development". Kerry appreciates the need for central agencies of government, particularly Ministries of Finance, to monitor the long-term costs of climate change and natural disasters on infrastructure, and to influence the line ministries and SOEs that are responsible for delivering infrastructure services to design and maintain assets to optimize life cycle benefits to communities.
Ordinary Members of the Executive Committee
Dr Jane Stanley
Dr Jane Stanley is qualified in architecture, town planning, social and economic research. She is an award winning planner with experience in Australia and overseas, and she is a past President of the International Division of the Planning Institute of Australia. Jane is author of the planning textbook “Gnarly Planning: some tools for local and global action” and she is currently working on a second version: “Gnarly Planning for a Wicked World”. At the World Urban Forum in Kuala Lumpur she launched an e-book on How to Build Local Economies. Her current work includes overseeing a national audit of the informal economy in Papua New Guinea, developing renewable energy options for farmers in Australia, and business planning for closed loop manufacturing in the dairy industry. Jane served as President of EAROPH Australia until 2021.
John Holland
John is an urbanist qualified in planning, natural resource management, economics, and management. He has a particular interest in optimising the outcomes of every development decision in order to deliver sustainable, liveable communities. John has focussed much of his energy on improving the delivery of suburbs on the growing edge of Melbourne. He is a Registered Planner with the Planning Institute of Australia serving several terms as a committee member and Vice President with the Victorian Division of PIA. In these roles he represented PIA in consultation with and submissions to the State throughout the creation of new policy for the long-term planning for and development in Victoria. John strives for improvement through innovative solutions and has advocated extensively for this approach.
Mia Davison
Mia is a human geographer and strategic planner with an Executive Master of Public Administration from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Social Science (Environment and Planning) from RMIT University. Her areas of expertise include sustainable development, urban and rural planning, and multilateral and multilevel governance. Mia has significant experience working for local, state and national governments, private consultancies, and other non-government groups within Australia and the United Kingdom. Mia currently works as Manager of Places and Precincts at Victoria’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP). She is also a Member of the Programme Committee of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA). Mia is currently based in Melbourne and previously served as the President of EAROPH International.
Roland Chanin-Morris
Ms Christina Ting
Christina Ting is a social scientist with a keen interest in working on projects that support and facilitate individuals and different sectors of society to enable them to realise the SDGs as part and parcel of their everyday activity and work. Her areas of expertise are education and research. She has taught Geography, Sociology of the Environment and Social Sciences in countries such as Singapore and Australia. As a community outreach officer, she educated communities on protecting waterways and water conservation. Christina is also a Climate Reality Leader who delivers talks to the public and organisations on the harmful effects of climate change and solutions at the grassroots level. Her research areas include her doctoral research at Swinburne University, Melbourne, which was to understand sustainable living that focused on the pre- and post-migration consumption behaviours of migrants from China and Australia-born residents living in Melbourne. Her postdoctoral work (also at Swinburne University) was on rural informal transport in Sarawak, Malaysia. She holds a double master degree in International Development and Environmental Analysis from Monash University, Melbourne, and Environmental Sciences and Policy from the Central European University, Budapest.
Roger Brewster
Dr. Roger Brewster has a multi-faceted career in land use and environmental planning spanning 45 years as a
member of the Planning Institute of Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Science and engineering from RAAF
Academy, a Master of Town Planning from Adelaide University and in 2016 a PhD from Bond University,
researching adaptation strategies for sustainable residential development in an oil-constrained future. Roger
has worked in Commonwealth and State Governments in planning, environmental and disaster management
fields, and as a consultant environmental planner, based mainly at the Gold Coast of Australia. He is
passionate about addressing two of the most serious Wicked Global Problems – climate change and energy
transition, including oil restriction impacts on the environment and society as the world embraces a post oil
economy. He brings enthusiasm and administrative experience to the role of Secretary of EAROPH Australia
Chapter.
Australian Honorary Presidents
Michael Harbison
Hon. Candy Broad
Mr. K.C. Leong
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