Sasha Courville, Principal Consultant, Climate Advisory, Natural Capital & Climate

Sasha is a strategy and sustainability leader with over twenty years’ experience in driving systems change at the intersection of business, government, research and civil society sectors.

At Natural Capital and Climate, part of the Alluvium Group, Sasha provides expertise to clients on corporate and sustainability strategy development, climate risk and resilience planning and on how to integrate nature into business decision-making.

As a senior executive at Bank Australia and at NAB, she led the integration of sustainability into core business strategy, focusing on shared value responses to challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, First Nations reconciliation and affordable housing, creating commercial opportunities and positive societal outcomes.

Previously, Sasha was Executive Director of the London-based ISEAL Alliance, the global association for sustainability standards and assurance systems. She has also worked as an international consultant on social justice and environmental sustainability issues in soft commodity sectors, and as an academic at the ANU. Sasha was deeply involved in setting up the Fairtrade labelling system in Australia and New Zealand and is currently the Chair of the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative.