Dugal McFarlane

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About Dugal McFarlane

A successful and experienced environmental scientist and team leader with a background in consulting, team leadership, project management and achieving high quality outcomes. Over twenty years of experience across private and public sector in environmental regulation and policy development, business reform, digital transformation, environmental impact assessment, management, and audit, throughout Australia and overseas. A strategic thinker, adept at developing and implementing strategy to achieve results. An excellent communicator with an extensive internal and external professional network. A leader who exemplifies hard work and commitment to deliver outcomes whilst supporting team members to thrive, develop skills and achieve their goals.> Twenty three years’ experience (14 private: 9 public sector) conducting environmental regulation and policy development; business reform; environmental impact assessment (including EPBC Act strategic assessments) and environmental management as well as auditing (ISO14001 and energy), sustainability and energy projects > Project experience in all Australian states and territories, the USA, China and Singapore > Sector experience includes agriculture, energy (fossil fuel and renewables), carbon sequestration technologies, steel-making, petro-chemical, mining, defence, waste, water, wastewater, printing, aviation, food, linear infrastructure (road, utilities) projects at local, state and commonwealth levels > Trained and experienced project director/project manager holding senior management roles on projects spanning multiple years, teams in excess of 20 people and multi million dollar budgets > Balanced view of projects applying perspectives acquired from regulation, private consulting (program delivery, client relationship management, technical analysis and research, budget and project management), construction (practical solutions, stakeholder management), technology start-up (fast paced innovation), alliance contracting (fast-paced KPI focus), landscape-scale management (defence)> Solutions focussed approach seeking innovative and pragmatic outcomes incorporating policy and practice.