Mary has a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and a PhD from the University of Cape Town. She is the CEO of Energetics, Australia’s largest specialist energy transition and climate risk consultancy.

She focuses on consulting to the mining and minerals processing sector. She helps companies to understand their risks and opportunities as they address both the transitional and the physical risks of climate change; and helps them to map their path to net zero.

She is the President of Australia’s Energy Efficiency Council, is on IChemE’s Governance Panel, and represents the private sector as an observer to a number of working groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). She is a recognised expert in life cycle assessment and decision-making under uncertainty. She is a Fellow of the IChemE.