Business Director – Climate Risk & Resilience, Beca

Cushla is a Technical Fellow – Climate Risk and Adaptation and leads Beca’s Climate risk and resilience business. Cushla has a passion for enhancing the resilience of communities and brings over 20 years of experience in strategic planning, policy, and climate impact assessment across NZ, Australia and the Pacific. She has worked both in the public and private sector and many of her projects involve working with local government entities to better understand and plan for climate risk in our communities. Cushla is currently the Project Director for the Beca-led Adaptation Workstream of the South Dunedin Futures programme, the Mount North Adaptation Plan with Tauranga City Council and was the Project Director of the Wellington Regional Climate Impact assessment that was completed for all nine councils in the region.