Program Speakers
Amelia Rahman
Amelia Rahman is an Executive Director with the National Australia Bank with over 20 years’ experience covering Energy, Resources and Infrastructure. She has worked on a range of domestic and international transactions across Australia, UK/Europe, US and Asia as a financier and within a corporate in a restructuring and business development capacity.
Angela brings over 20 years investment and advisory experience within the energy and utilities sector, particularly in energy transition.
Prior to joining HMC, Angela was at QIC Global Infrastructure for over a decade and as a Partner in that business she helped grow their energy and utilities portfolio from 1 portfolio company to 9 portfolio companies across Australia and United States. At QIC, she held the following positions Founding Director, Tilt Renewables (2016-2023, previously Powering Australian Renewables Fund); Founding Director, Lochard Energy (2015-2022); Founding Director, Epic Energy (2013-2018); Director, Pacific Energy (2021-2023; and Director of PowerCo (2012-2015). She was also a member of the Management Investment Committee.
Angela also holds over a decade of M&A advisory experience at both JP Morgan and UBS, where she was the Australian Head of Energy & Utilities Advisory. During this time Angela advised on many key industry transactions including multiple advisory roles with Infigen from its IPO to the sale of US assets; sale of Alinta to TPG; multiple advisory roles for AGL Energy as it expanded its Australian presence and various advisory roles to multiple listed infrastructure vehicles.
Anthony is an experienced energy executive with over 25 years in the sector.
Prior to joining Tilt Renewables, Anthony was the Chief Executive Officer of Lochard Energy, a leading midstream energy infrastructure business owned by some of Australia’s most prominent infrastructure investors. Previous roles include as the Group Executive at AGL responsible for Australia’s largest generation portfolio, energy trading and commercial and industrial retail.
Anthony has a Bachelor of Science (honours), Masters in Applied Finance and is a graduate of the Harvard Advanced Management Program.
Fahmi Hosain
Fahmi Hosain is the Chief Risk Officer of Future Group – one of the fastest growing superannuation businesses in Australia. Future Group’s mission is to change the planet today to secure a better future by using the power of money to invest ethically and sustainably, while advocating for a future worth retiring into. In the 10 years of its operation, Future Group has grown to over $15bn in funds under management and advice with over 300k members. His responsibilities include leading Future Group's regulatory and political engagement, with a particular focus on contributing to the evolution of the superannuation sector to better support ethical and sustainable investment strategies. Fahmi was a member of Federal Treasury’s Technical Working Group, which was established to advise the Government on refinements to the Your Future, Your Super Performance Test settings.
Fahmi has worked in financial services for over 25 years. 17 of these years were spent at APRA, where he was APRA’s inaugural Head of Governance, Culture & Remuneration. In this role he was responsible for establishing and leading the development of APRA’s approach, supervisory practices, and industry engagement on these interrelated topics. During his time at APRA, he was also responsible for leading teams that supervised entities across the superannuation, banking and insurance sectors. Between 2012 and 2014 Fahmi had a senior policy development role where he led the team that created APRA’s cross-industry risk management prudential standard CPS 220, as well as APRA’s conglomerate supervision framework. Fahmi was a member of the Financial Stability Board’s Working Group on Corporate Governance and has assisted the International Monetary Fund as a Technical Expert on conglomerate and pension fund supervision, which involved participating in missions to advise foreign governments.
Fahmi has a Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University as well as a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investments from the Securities Institute of Australia.
Jørn Hammer is a Partner at global renewable energy investment leader - Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) - based in Melbourne. He leads CIP’s Australian and New Zealand investment and development portfolio.
Jørn has nearly 30 years’ of experience in energy across several sectors including international renewable investment and development, supply chain opportunities and setting up operations in new markets.
His extensive experience working on the clean energy transition includes executive roles at global wind turbine supplier Vestas, serving on the Clean Energy Council’s board for a decade and leading capital raises for large-scale renewable investments.
At CIP, Jørn is responsible for a development pipeline of large-scale clean energy totalling more than 30GW. He leads a team focused on securing future energy needs through investment in offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, pumped hydro, battery storage and green hydrogen.
Jørn is a Marine Engineer with leadership qualifications from INSEAD and IMD and is passionate about accelerating the energy transition.
Prior to this, she was a renewables and climate change lawyer with Baker & McKenzie, a senior policymaker and UN climate change negotiator with the Australian Government, and an engineer with CH2M Hill. Karen is a director on several boards including the Clean Energy Council, Intera Renewables, Granville Harbour Wind Farm and Life Education NSW. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (1st Class Honours) and Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (1st Class Honours) from the University of Sydney, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Ms Miller leads the CEFC team responsible for the origination and execution of investments in renewables and sustainable finance, overseeing transactions in the areas of renewable energy, storage and debt markets. This includes the $1 billion Household Energy Upgrades Fund™. Ms Miller has more than 20 years’ experience in clean energy and environmental finance.
Prior to joining the CEFC, Ms Miller worked at Macquarie Bank and Baker McKenzie in Sydney and London, with extensive experience in renewables and carbon investment and structuring, international emissions trading and policy advice. Ms Miller holds a Bachelor of Arts/Law degree with Honours from the Australian National University and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Neil Fraser is an Executive Director, Natural Resources and Energy – Institutional Banking and Markets for the Commonwealth Bank. Neil heads the Australian and New Zealand Energy team which manages the relationships with corporate clients and provides structured project finance for renewable energy assets.
Neil joined CBA in 2015, specialising in the energy industry and leading the growth in CBA’s domestic renewable energy business. He has two decades of work experience at international banks in a variety of roles, including stints at The Royal Bank of Scotland and ABN AMRO.
CBA’s Institutional Banking and Markets business unit serves the commercial and wholesale banking needs of large corporate, institutional and government clients across a full range of financial services solutions including access to debt capital markets, transaction banking, working capital and risk management through dedicated product and industry specialists.
Rob is a highly regarded business leader with more than 25 years’ executive experience across the energy infrastructure and telecommunications sectors in Australia and internationally.
As Squadron Energy CEO, he heads up Australia’s leading renewable energy developer, owner and operator and is passionate about leading Australia’s transition to renewable energy.
Prior to joining Squadron, he was CEO and Managing Director of top 50 ASX-listed energy infrastructure business APA Group.
Sam Reynolds established Octopus Australia in 2018. Sam’s leadership has been instrumental in supporting the company’s growth under its three main pillars, (i) Energy Infrastructure, (ii) Fund management and (iii) Community Engagement.
As CEO, Sam’s role is to lead Octopus’ culture and drive its mission to harness capital and expertise to accelerate the energy transition. Today Octopus Australia has a team 60 people, and offices in Melbourne and Sydney and has created multi-$billion fund management and energy development business.
Tim Nelson
Tim
is the Chair of the Independent Review of the NEM. The Review will provide
actionable recommendations to Energy Ministers in late 2025. Prior to this
role, Tim was the Executive General Manager, Energy Markets at Iberdrola
Australia. In this role, Tim lead the wholesale and retail energy markets
functions. He also lead business development for firming and smart solutions.
Tim joined Iberdrola Australia in March 2020 from the Australian Energy Market
Commission (AEMC). Up until November 2018, Tim was the Chief Economist of AGL
Energy.
He is also a Climate Councillor, a member of the Westpac Stakeholder Advisory Council, an advisory board member for My Net Zero and is on the Research Committee for the Centre for Policy Development.
Tim
is an Associate Professor at Griffith University and is widely published in
Australian and international peer-reviewed journals. He holds a PhD in
economics for which he earned a Chancellors Doctoral Research Medal and a
first-class honours degree in economics. Tim is also a fellow of the Governance
Institute (FGIA FCG CS CGP) and a graduate of the Australian Institute of
Company Directors (GAICD).
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