00:07I'm pleased to welcome the Deputy Chair of the Australian National Committee. Hi!
00:12Hi, how are you? Welcome. So how long have you been involved in CIGRE as Deputy Chair of your
00:18National Committee? Yeah, so as Deputy Chair only a short time now, I was elected last year, but
00:24I've been with CIGRE and on the board of CIGRE Australia for over eight years. Okay, what does
00:29CIGRE represent for you professionally and personally? Yeah, so for me it's all about the
00:35network of experts around the world. I've been involved with CIGRE now since I was at the start
00:42of my career, so almost 30 years. And the people I met in the first few years, I've stayed in
00:48contact
00:49with that whole time. So it's that ongoing network that's really important. Talking about the Australian
00:54National Committee, what are the main activities right now? Yeah, so we're a little bit
00:59unique in that we mirror all of the 16 study committees. We have a local panel for each of
01:04the 16 study committees, and that allows us to have a good Australian representation into the work
01:11that's going on internationally. And we have members active on about 50% of all the working groups,
01:17and really get a lot out of then getting a good contribution flowing each way, both from Australia
01:22internationally and back taking the learnings internationally back into Australia. So that's
01:27served us really well across time. And we really enjoy the collaboration and we're really looking
01:32forward to hosting the symposium in September next year. So we really want to see everyone come out to
01:39Cairns and have a really great time. And I look forward to meeting everyone in September next year.
01:44Coming back to Paris Session, we know that Paris Session take the lead on energy transition subject.
01:51Could you give us more details on how the Australian National Committee is dealing with climate change
01:56and all the challenges that are going with it? Yeah, so quite a lot, first and foremost, when we were
02:03looking at the Cairns symposium, a lot of the preferential subjects all tackle that energy transition in
02:09some way or another, because it is a unifying theme now around the world. And I think even from the
02:15opening session here, it became quite obvious that no one's quite got all of the answers. And so
02:20collaborating and learning from each other is the only way we'll get there in the time constraints
02:25that are imposed. So I think that's really a theme that's unifying us at the moment.
02:31And it's really good to see that coming together from many different angles across the 16 study
02:36communities. Of course. Thank you for coming by and have a great session. Thank you very much. Thank you.
